Product Owner (L1) (contract)

Description Title: Product Owner (L1) Location: Charlotte, NC Duration: 20 W, 2 D Work Engagement: W2 Work Schedule: Hybrid 3 days in office/2 days remote Benefits on offer for this contract position: Health Insurance, Life insurance, 401K and Voluntary Benefits Summary: In this contingent resource assignment, you may: Consult on or participate in moderately complex initiatives and deliverables within Business Execution and contribute to large-scale planning related to Business Execution deliverables. Review and analyze moderately complex Business Execution challenges that require an in-depth evaluation of variable factors. Contribute to the resolution of moderately complex issues and consult with others to meet Business Execution deliverables while leveraging solid understanding of the function, policies, procedures, and compliance requirements. Collaborate with client personnel in Business Execution. Required Qualifications: 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. Key Responsibilities: Agile Product Delivery • Own and maintain the team backlog. • Translate features, epics, and business requirements into well-defined user stories. • Develop clear acceptance criteria and business rules. • Ensure stories meet Definition of Ready standards prior to sprint planning. • Support feature decomposition and story sizing activities. • Facilitate backlog refinement sessions with engineering and business partners. • Partner with Scrum Masters and Engineering Leads to support sprint planning and execution. • Help establish sprint goals and ensure work aligns with roadmap priorities. • Participate in sprint reviews, demonstrations, retrospectives, and planning activities. [Sprint Planning | SharePoint], [Writing User Stories | SharePoint], [Acceptance Criteria | SharePoint] \_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_ Requirements Management • Gather, document, and refine business requirements from stakeholders. • Analyze current-state and future-state processes. • Create user stories, process flows, use cases, and functional requirements. • Identify assumptions, dependencies, risks, and cross-team impacts. • Ensure requirements are testable, measurable, and implementation ready. • Maintain traceability between business objectives and delivered functionality. • Support UAT planning and business validation activities. \_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_ Development Team Partnership • Serve as the primary day-to-day product contact for assigned delivery teams. • Answer implementation questions and make timely requirement decisions. • Clarify business rules and priorities during development. • Work alongside engineers, architects, QA, and UX resources to resolve ambiguities. • Support defect triage and prioritization activities. • Ensure delivered functionality meets intended business outcomes. \_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_ Stakeholder Collaboration • Partner with Product Managers and senior stakeholders to understand strategic priorities. • Communicate delivery progress, risks, and dependencies. • Facilitate working sessions to refine requirements and align stakeholders. • Support roadmap planning and quarterly prioritization processes. • Build strong partnerships across business, operations, technology, risk, and compliance teams. \_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_ Enterprise & Control Responsibilities • Consider regulatory, compliance, audit, and operational risk requirements during solution design. • Ensure appropriate consideration is given to: • Data quality • Data lineage • Entitlements and access controls • Auditability • Operational resiliency • Exception handling • Upstream and downstream system dependencies • Support implementation within a highly regulated financial services environment. \_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_ Key Requirements: • Applicants must be authorized to work for ANY employer in the U.S. This position is not eligible for visa sponsorship. • • Product Owner, Business Analyst, Product Analyst, or Agile delivery experience. • Experience creating user stories, acceptance criteria, and managing Agile backlogs. • Experience working directly with software engineering teams. • Strong analytical and problem-solving skills. • Excellent communication and stakeholder management skills. • Experience working within large enterprise technology organizations.