Technical Product Owner

Apex Systems has an immediate opening available for a Technical Product Owner with one of our clients that is a large higher education organization. As a Technical Product Owner, you will help to define the vision of the portfolio and products our client creates; drive the planning, prioritisation and execution of backlogs and deliver new features that support our strategic goals. You understand the relevant end to end business processes, underlying business capabilities and related journey maps and strategies that elevate both student and colleague experiences. You will be expected to understand, assess, and decompose prioritized initiatives into Portfolio and Product roadmaps. Working closely with your key stakeholders to ensure our planning closely aligns with overall business goals and objectives and with a mindset of driving focus to maximize value for both colleagues and customers.

Location: Must be local to Chicago, IL or Columbia, MD
Duration: 6+ month contract with the opportunity to extend or convert to perm

Responsibilities

• Leading and collaborating with Digital Product Managers and peer group colleagues as well as other IT stakeholder groups towards finalizing short, mid and long terms initiative and product roadmaps aligned to business priorities and value, together with assessment of available capacity and indicative level of effort arising from the team landscape resulting in effectively sequenced and prioritized roadmaps
• Collaborate with architecture, engineering, and service management teams, to ensure the overall roadmaps are balanced to ensure a scalable, user experience optimised, stable, and performant technology products, that continually meet business needs, ensuring NFR's (Non Functional Requirements) and System enablers are considered and captured, and cascaded to the relevant teams
• Define methodology for the analysis and response to target metrics and value post-delivery, including recommended improvements, for use during retrospective work sessions, and with an overall goal of driving increased use and adoption
• Nurture and build relationships with senior colleagues across all business functions that are impacted by the assigned product and initiative portfolio and underlying business capabilities and technology solutions - use these relationships to collaborate on business outcome alignment, roadmap conceptualization and prioritization.
• Facilitate business process mapping and product mapping work sessions and actively participate in both functional and technological changes that can enhance the student and colleague experience as well as enable business growth and value
• Working in partnership with applicable product vendors to understand vendor product roadmaps and how these can be exploited to deliver business goals and outcomes as well as ensuring timely feature/product upgrades, maximizing the efficiency and effectiveness of the assigned products. Minimize bespoke customization, and influence business process changes to best utilize vendor supplied products.
• Maintain the quality and integrity of all new product introduction and existing product enhancements within their technical and team boundaries, ensuring identification and contribution of risks and dependencies, ensuring appropriate roadmaps reflect any impact
• Responsible for progressing all deliverables to "done" status and meet acceptance criteria by coordinating production deployment, post-implementation analysis/feedback, and ongoing support plan.
• Support definition of objectives, definition of success metrics and articulation of business outcomes for assigned initiatives and product enhancements, ensuring KPIs and targets are tracked, reported on and support identifying impediments that are preventing from the realization of defined benefits
• Use approved tools and methodologies to manage workloads, communicate progress, ensure timely completion of deliverables and team adherence to maintaining accurately and consistently all delivery related metrics for assigned initiatives.
• Completes other duties as assigned and complies with all policies and standards

Requirements:

• Bachelor's Degree in Computer Science or related field
• Strong understanding of .NET software development and/or architecture
• 3+ years of Product Owner or Product Management experience, with a background as a Business Analyst
• Good understanding of GCP
• Extensive experience writing user stories and acceptance criteria
• Experience working in with agile and waterfall methodologies
• Understands technical and functional design requirements.
• Technical depth of understanding deep enough to fluently converse with developers
• Experience in Data Storage is preferred
• Experience in Higher Education is preferred

Required Skills : 3+ years experience in Product Ownership/Product Management Background as a Business Analyst Strong understanding of .NET and GCP
Basic Qualification : Must be local to Chicago, IL or Columbia, MD
Additional Skills : Must be local to Chicago, IL or Columbia, MD
Background Check :Yes
Notes :
Selling points for candidate :
Project Verification Info :"The information provided below is for Apex Systems AV use only and is not to be distributed publicly, or to any third party. Any distribution of the below information will result in corrective action from Apex Systems Vendor Management. Client Letter: Will Provide"
Candidate must be your W2 Employee :No
Exclusive to Apex :Yes
Face to face interview required :No
Candidate must be local :Yes
Candidate must be authorized to work without sponsorship :Yes
Interview times set :Yes
Type of project :0011958 | Adtalem Global Education, Inc. - SOW
Master Job Title :FIN
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Location: Schiller Park, IL, US

Posted Date: 9/27/2024