Technology Product Owner (ACH & Real Time Payments)

Zions Bancorporation; Midvale (UT); On-site; USD 90,000 - 130,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Medical, Dental and Vision Insurance -

Paid Time Off

401(k) with company match

Tuition Reimbursement

On-site amenities

Job summary

Zions Bancorporation’s Enterprise Technology and Operations team seeks a Technology Product Owner to drive vision and execution for ACH and Real Time Payments platforms. You will bridge business strategy with technical delivery to improve customer experience and support enterprise objectives.

The ideal candidate brings 6+ years in product ownership within large enterprises, strong facilitation and communication, and proven ability to lead agile ceremonies, manage backlogs, and define clear

Qualifications

• 6+ years of strategic product ownership experience in a large enterprise.
• Experience driving MVPs/lean startup style product development.
• Strong facilitation, decision-making, and communication skills for leadership.
• Bachelor's degree in information systems, business, CS or related field; combined education/experience acceptable.

Responsibilities

• Backlog management: create, own, prioritize, and refine team backlog with stakeholders.
• Develop detailed feature specifications for development teams.
• Lead agile ceremonies and act as customer proxy for the team.
• Define acceptance criteria, verify stories, and remove blockers to maintain velocity.
• Align business and technology stakeholders to translate visions into actionable requirements.
• Lead systems analysis and design, including requirements gathering and UAT plans.

Skills

Product ownership

Agile leadership

Stakeholder management

JIRA / Azure DevOps

Communication

Education

Bachelor's degree in information systems or related field

Tools

JIRA

Azure DevOps

Confluence

Job description

Zions Bancorporation’s Enterprise Technology and Operations (ETO) team is transforming what it means to work for a financial institution. With a commitment to technology and innovation, we have been providing our community, clients and colleagues the best experience possible for over 150 years. Help us transform our workforce of the future, today

We are seeking an experiencedTechnology Product Ownerto drive the vision and execution for teams supporting our ACH and Real Time Payments platforms. You will act as the crucial bridge between business strategy and technical execution focused on enhancing our customer experience and achieving strategic enterprise objectives.

The ideal candidate is an experienced Technology Product Owner (PO) with an excellent track record of leadership, accountability, and interpersonal skills. This PO will take the initiative and produce timely and high-quality business outcomes in a fast-paced production and project environment.

The Technology Product Owner will be part of an agile team, serving as the customer proxy and responsible for working with product management, technology, and other business stakeholders. The PO will provide team support in an agile environment while defining stories and prioritizing the Team Backlog. The Technology Product Owner will also solicit requirements, lead user acceptance testing and support product releases. They will play a significant role in the focus of the agile team and will accept stories as completed. This individual will work in a dynamic team environment to effectively meet Company milestones for new and existing products.

Responsibilities:

• Backlog management: Create, own, prioritize, and manage the team backlog, constantly collaborating with product management, business stakeholders and the team to ensure work items are refined and prioritized.
• Feature specifications: Develop detailed product feature specifications and ensure they’re clearly understood by the development teams.
• Agile Ceremony Leadership: Actively lead and participate in key team ceremonies (iteration planning, refinement, demos, retrospectives) serving as the primary proxy for the customer and business.
• Value Delivery & Acceptance: Assess technical feasibility, prioritize crucial enabler work to maintain team velocity, and accept stories based on strict acceptance criteria and customer intent. Actively mitigate roadblocks impacting successful team completion of release/sprint goals.
• Strategic Stakeholder Alignment: Continuously engage with business, technology, and product management stakeholders to translate incoming features and overarching visions into actionable, well-defined requirements for your teams.
• Systems Analysis & Design: Lead the analysis and implementation of business systems by developing proposals for new processes, gathering requirements, and designing user acceptance test plans based on end-user needs.

Qualifications:

• 6+ years of proven experience driving strategic product creation, accelerating value delivery, and utilizing innovative product development practices (e.g., MVP, lean startup, design-thinking).
• Demonstrated success as a Product Owner in a large enterprise environment, utilizing scaling practices to build complex, cross-functional solutions.
• Exceptional facilitation, decision-making, and communication skills, with the ability to confidently present to leadership.
• Bachelor's degree in information systems, business, computer science or a related field & 4+ years’ experience contributing to strategic creation & building out of products, accelerating value delivery to customers, working with cross-functional teams to realize products, employing innovative mindsets & practices to product development (design-thinking, lean startup approach, MVP, rapid prototyping, frequent feedback cycles, customer centricity). A combination of education and experience may meet qualifications.
• Experience with JIRA, Azure Dev Ops (ADO), Confluence, or similar tools preferred.
• Product Owner certification strongly preferred.
• Financial Product Owner experience preferred.

Location:

This position is fully in office (5 days a week) at the Zions Technology Center - 7860 South Bingham Junction Blvd, Midvale, UT 84047

The Zions Technology Center is a 400,000-square-foot technology campus in Midvale, Utah. Located on the former Sharon Steel Mill superfund site, the sustainably built campus is the company’s primary technology and operations center. This modern and environmentally friendly technology center enables Zions to compete for the best technology talent in the state while providing team members with an exceptional work environment with features such as:

• Electric vehicle charging stations and close proximity to Historic Gardner Village UTA TRAX station.
• At least 75% of the building is powered by on-site renewable solar energy.
• Access to outdoor recreation, parks, trails, shareable bikes and locker rooms.
• Large modern cafe with a healthy and diverse menu.
• Healthy indoor environment with ample natural light and fresh air.
• LEED-certified sustainable building that features include the use of low VOC-emitting construction materials.
• Medical, Dental and Vision Insurance - START DAY ONE!
• Life and Disability Insurance, Paid Parental Leave and Adoption Assistance
• Health Savings (HSA), Flexible Spending (FSA) and dependent care accounts
• Paid Training, Paid Time Off (PTO) and 11 Paid Federal Holidays
• 401(k) plan with company match, Profit Sharing, competitive compensation in line with work experience
• Mental health benefits including coaching and therapy sessions
• Tuition Reimbursement for qualifying employees
• Employee Ambassador preferred banking products

This position will be open until filled.

All candidates, including those with criminal histories will be considered for employment. However, a background check adjudicated consistently with the FDIC Section 19 regulation will be completed on any candidate who accepts a conditional job offer from the Company. Because the Company is a financial institution, the FDIC guidelines apply to all positions within the company and as such any and all job duties have a direct relationship to a candidate’s criminal history and that criminal history would need to align with the FDIC Section 19 regulations.

Zions Bancorporation, National Association prohibits illegal discrimination and reaffirms its policy of providing Equal Employment Opportunity (EEO), by extending equal employment and advancement opportunities to all employees and applicants for employment, without regard to race, color, religion, age (40 and over), sex, pregnancy, gender, disability, national origin, ethnic background, citizenship, protected veteran status, military service, sexual orientation, gender identity, genetic information or any other characteristic protected by applicable federal, state or local law.

It is the Company’s policy not to discriminate because of a person’s relationship or association with a protected veteran. This includes spouses and other family members. Also, Zions will safeguard the fair and equitable treatment of protected veteran spouses and family members with regard to all employment actions and prohibit harassment of applicants and employees because of their relationship or association with a protected veteran.

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