Technical Product Owner

Technical Product Owner, GCC, India

The Technical Product Owner will be responsible for defining and delivering the technical product roadmap, ensuring that the product meets customer needs and business goals, and working closely with development teams to ensure the product is delivered on time and within budget. The ideal candidate should have a strong technical background, excellent communication skills, and a passion for delivering high-quality software products.

This position will be Remote at present at our India location but we are looking candidates who are based in Bangalore, Chennai & Hyderabad cities ONLY.

What will be my duties and responsibilities in this job?

• Writes functional and technical user stories that clearly communicate customer/stakeholder needs to the Agile team, accepts stories once complete • Understands and supports inter-team dependencies, and escalates issues when necessary.
• Primarily supports mobile IT and Amdocs, secondarily the client’s mobile product team.
• Fluent with the technical requirements, wireframes, and Assurant development/architecture and environments.
• Attends all client technical grooming and dev meetings.
• Key liaison to achieve an on-time MVP launch.
• Prioritizes WebEx chats, meetings, and content requests from client.
• Troubleshoots any operational issues or backend solution updates.
• With Agile team, sets and communicates release date and scope. Attends team events (e.g. daily stand-up, sprint planning, sprint review). Works with team members to ensure products are working in production (depending on DevOps model).
• Lead stakeholder meetings to identify opportunities and product priorities.
• Continuously groom the development backlog through recurring iterations of user story development and prioritization.
• Prioritize development backlog items based on product strategy, business value to the customer, implementation cost, and resource availability.

What are the requirements needed for this position? 

• 5+ years of experience in a requirement gathering and documentation (e.g. Product Owner, Business Analyst, SME, or process owner role).
• 2+ years of experience using two or more of the following: Postman, SoapUI, SQL Server, Swagger UI.
• 3+ years of experience working with Process flows (Visio) and solution diagrams using Microsoft Visio or similar tools.
• Experience with Agile development process; agile certification a plus.
• Strong Communication and program management skills.
• Good understanding of customer needs and business strategy.
• Proven track record of solution design.
• Experience with developing productive relationships with both technical and non-technical partners.
• Strong analytical and critical thinking skills.

What other skills/experience would be helpful to have?

• Bachelor’s or Master’s degree in a technical field.
• Desired knowledge of: Azure Application Insights, Azure Storage Explorer and familiarity with JSON, XML, YAML, HTML, okta authentication, ASP.NET.
• Previous Insurance, Wireless (Cell Phone Industry), OEMs, experience.
• Previous Telecom/Mobile experience. Ability to develop productive working relationships with both technical and non-technical partners.
• Knowledge of Agile development methodologies/tools and experience writing user stories.
• Good understanding of customer needs and business strategy.