Associate Technical Product Owner (Agile, Power BI)

Associate Technical Product Owner, Assurant-GCC, India

Represents the Business Product Owner at the team level, ensures that the team is delivering the functionality that meets business and client needs.  He/she must have past experience working with technology teams, and business skills and experience are a plus.  The technical product owner will be 100% allocated to one team in this role

This position will be in Hyderabad at our India location.

Working Hours: 12:30 PM IST to 9:30 PM IST

What will be my duties and responsibilities in this job?

• Works with Business Product Owner to understand business objectives and product requirements, collaborates with BPO to prioritize the backlog; collaborates with business stakeholders to clarify user story requirements as needed
• 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
• 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)
• Mentors junior team members to ensure maximum productivity.

• Facilitate Periodic Access Reviews

• Manage intake / assignment of audit requests to agile teams

• Facilitate Access Termination processes

• Manage organization’s self-audit processes

What are the requirements needed for this position?

Overall 5+ Years of Product Owner experience.

• Associates or Bachelor’s degree in computer science, Engineering, or a related field

• 2+  years experience facilitating audit requests, Periodic Access Reviews

• 2+ years experience managing agile backlog

  2-4 years experience in a requirements and/ or audit request intake (e.g. business analyst), SME, or process owner role.
• 2+ years experience with Power BI or other analytical tools.
• 1+ years experience managing a team of 2+ people preferred; additional business or technical training may be required.
• Recommended 2-5 years in industry

What is the Preferred Experience, Skills, and Knowledge needed for this position?

• Experience with agile development preferred; agile certification a plus
• Strong communication skills.
• 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

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