Product Owner - Lead Agile Delivery for Retirement Platforms

Ascensus; Philadelphia (Philadelphia County); On-site; USD 110,000 - 140,000; Full time

Job summary

Ascensus is seeking a Product Owner to own the roadmap and execution for Retirement and Government Savings programs. You will define stories, prioritize the team backlog, and drive the agile team to deliver features that align with customer needs and ROI.

You will partner with BAs, technology, and clients to ensure requirements are clear, tests are executed, and releases meet quality standards in a fast-paced environment.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in business or technology related fields.
• Advanced with Microsoft Office and a strong working knowledge of Agile and SDLC methodologies.
• Minimum 5 years’ experience in the assigned business domain: 401(k), IRA, 529, etc.
• Minimum 5 years’ experience as a Product Owner, or a Technology (Dev or QA) practice.
• Demonstrated experience implementing and executing Agile principles with strong technical skills.
• Ability to work in a fast-paced environment; high quality of work that adheres to all standards, regulatory and audit requirements.
• Strong consultative and well-articulated communication and writing skills with the ability to interact and influence at all levels of the organization.
• Demonstrated experience implementing and executing Agile principles with strong technical skills.
• Naturally curious, detail oriented, with strong analytic, and research skills.
• Knowledge and/or experience with Confluence, JIRA, Azure DevOps, and Aha!.
• Experience in administering the aforementioned applications a plus.

Responsibilities

• Creates and maintains the Scrum Team Roadmap.
• Prioritizes and sequences the Backlog according to business value or ROI.
• Conveys the Vision and Goals at the beginning of every Release and Sprint.
• Represents the customer, interfaces and engages the customer.
• Collaborating with a Scrum team on new Feature development, requests including building and maintaining a Product backlog, contributing to/reviewing/approving user stories, sprint support, and UAT testing.
• Where appropriate, works closely with BAs and Technology to create Behaviors Driven Development (BDD) stories.
• Assists with the elaboration of Epics, Themes and Features into user stories that are granular enough to be achieved in a single sprint.
• Participates in the daily Scrums, Sprint Planning Meetings, Release Planning, Sprint Reviews and Retrospectives.
• Inspects the product progress at the end of every Sprint and has complete authority to accept or reject work done.
• Maintains relationships with the business and the client to understand the current and changing needs.
• Actively involved in Organizational readiness activities.
• Primary point person internally and externally for the team for updates and feedback.
• Identify and maintain the KPIs need to support the team and assigned product.
• Establish annual goals, objectives and outcomes for product(s); Track and monitor key performance indicators.
• Supervision No direct reports, but provides critical leadership to drive the scrum team(s)

Skills

Agile methodologies

Stakeholder engagement

Story writing

Backlog management

Executive communication

Education

Bachelor's degree

Tools

Confluence

JIRA

Azure DevOps

Aha!

Job description

Ascensus is seeking a Product Owner to own the roadmap and execution for Retirement and Government Savings programs. You will define stories, prioritize the team backlog, and drive the agile team to deliver features that align with customer needs and ROI.

You will partner with BAs, technology, and clients to ensure requirements are clear, tests are executed, and releases meet quality standards in a fast-paced environment.