Associate Principal Engineer, Technical Product Owner (Banking)

Nagarro; United States; Remote; USD 140,000 - 200,000; Full time

Job summary

Nagarro is seeking an experienced Proxy Product Owner to lead delivery for banking/digital finance initiatives in the United States. You will translate vision into actionable user stories, manage the channel backlog, and drive agile ceremonies with cross-functional teams across UX/UI, Engineering, QA, DevOps, and business stakeholders.

In this role, you will oversee releases, plan deployments, coordinate readiness, and ensure governance and audit compliance.

Qualifications

• Total Experience 10+ years in relevant domains.
• Strong experience in Banking/Financial Services apps.
• Hands-on as a Proxy Product Owner with SDLC exposure.

Responsibilities

• Act as the Proxy Product Owner between the Channel Product Owner and the development squad.
• Translate product vision and requirements into actionable user stories and backlog items.
• Maintain, prioritize and manage the channel development backlog.
• Facilitate Agile ceremonies including sprint planning, stand-ups, reviews and retrospectives.
• Primary point of contact for the development team on backlog and product queries.
• Collaborate with UX/UI, Engineering and QA teams to ensure high-quality feature delivery.
• Monitor sprint progress and communicate status to stakeholders.
• Plan and oversee software releases, deployments and production rollouts.
• Coordinate release readiness across Development, QA, DevOps, Infrastructure and Business teams.
• Manage release calendars, dependencies, UAT, production validation and rollback plans.
• Ensure compliance with change management, governance and audit requirements.
• Identify and mitigate release risks, issues and dependencies.
• Monitor release performance and drive post-release reviews and continuous improvement.

Skills

Agile delivery

Backlog management

Stakeholder management

User stories

Acceptance criteria

SDLC

Communication

KPIs

Release planning

Job description

Company Description

We're Nagarro. We are a Digital Product Engineering company that is scaling in a big way! We build products, services, and experiences that inspire, excite, and delight. We work at scale across all devices and digital mediums, and our people exist everywhere in the world (18,700 + experts across 39 countries, to be exact). Our work culture is dynamic and non-hierarchical. We're looking for great new colleagues. That's where you come in.

Job Description

REQUIREMENTS

• Total Experience 10+ years
• Strong experience in Business Banking and Banking / Financial Services applications
• Hands-on experience as a Technical Product Owner / Proxy Product Owner with strong SDLC exposure
• Strong experience in Agile delivery, project scoping, backlog management and prioritization
• Experience with customer-facing Mobile / Digital Banking applications
• Strong understanding of User Stories, acceptance criteria, Agile ceremonies and squad delivery
• Strong experience in software releases, deployments, UAT and production rollouts
• Experience coordinating Development, QA, DevOps, Infrastructure and Business stakeholders
• Experience with release calendars, dependencies, change management, governance and audit requirements
• Strong risk, issue, dependency and stakeholder management experience
• Excellent communication and collaboration skills with the ability to drive initiatives independently
• Experience defining KPIs, monitoring delivery performance and driving continuous improvement

RESPONSIBILITIES

• Act as the Proxy Product Owner between the Channel Product Owner and development squad
• Translate product vision and requirements into actionable user stories and backlog items
• Maintain, prioritize and manage the channel development backlog
• Facilitate Agile ceremonies including sprint planning, stand-ups, reviews and retrospectives
• Act as the primary point of contact for the development team on backlog and product-related queries
• Collaborate with UX/UI, Engineering and QA teams to ensure high-quality feature delivery
• Monitor sprint progress, manage changes and communicate delivery status to stakeholders
• Plan and oversee software releases, deployments and production rollouts
• Coordinate release readiness across Development, QA, DevOps, Infrastructure and Business teams
• Manage release calendars, dependencies, UAT, production validation and rollback plans
• Ensure compliance with change management, governance and audit requirements
• Identify and mitigate release risks, issues and dependencies
• Monitor release performance and drive post-release reviews and continuous improvement