Product Analyst

Outstanding long-term contract opportunity! A well-known Financial Services Company is looking for a Product Owner in Des Moines, IA or Charlotte, NC (Hybrid). Work with the brightest minds at one of the largest financial institutions in the world. This is a long-term contract opportunity that includes a competitive benefit package! Our client has been around for over 150 years and is continuously innovating in today's digital age. If you want to work for a company that is not only a household name, but also truly cares about satisfying customers' financial needs and helping people succeed financially, apply today. Contract Duration: 24 months Required Skills & Experience • 5+ years of Business Execution, Implementation, or Strategic Planning experience, or equivalent demonstrated through one or a combination of the following: work or consulting experience, training, military experience, education. Desired Skills & Experience • Agile (Scrum) • Data Analytics, databases, data related projects • Finance Technology • JIRA and Confluence • Merchant Services • Product Analyst • User Story development and clarification What You Will Be Doing • Support Product Owner to document app/platform current state, define use cases, and conduct analysis. Examples of areas of focus for analysis may include but are not limited to:? • Business processes ? • Data mapping? • Known gaps - in tech solution or business process? • Existing defects • Apply critical thinking and thought leadership on problem solution design. • Engage appropriate product and business stakeholders. • Facilitate/participate in new work requirement sessions with Product Owner and stakeholders and collaborate with SMEs to provide business knowledge.? • Participate in feature refinement sessions along with the Product Owner to identify dependencies.? • Write user stories with guidance and support from the Product Owner. • Ensure the Definition of Ready (DoR) is met for each user story. • Support control related activities/requests for audit evidence. • Facilitate frequent collaboration between customers, stakeholders, and teams throughout the product lifecycle.? • Raise awareness to the Product Owner for unplanned work (sprint disruptions) and identify potential trade-offs.? • Partner with UAT team to identify business testing strategy/approach and share use cases; help engage end users in UAT activities, as needed. At times, perform lightweight UAT testing to augment UAT testing team capacity if not available. • Facilitate/participate in user story refinement session(s) ensuring a backlog depth of two sprints; proactively identify and escalate issues • Document use cases/scenarios which can be used in requirements/design and business testing/UAT.? • Assist with UAT and data governance coordination.? • Represent scrum team in Production triage meetings, researching issues/defects as needed. Act as point of contact for defects.? • Assist with Sprint Planning by reviewing the current sprint, identifying carryover items and prioritizing items for the upcoming sprint. Posted By: Steve Chatt