Technical Product Owner

12 month_ contract
Hybrid - Downtown NYC
Our financial client is in search of a Technical Product Owner/Business Analyst for the Legacy Modernization Program's central teams (mainframe and distributed) which aim to provide central solutions to workstreams to accelerate platform renovation and decommission of mainframe applications by developing common solutions and helping system owners better understand their systems.
Primary Responsibilities:
The candidate should be able to:
Develop and maintain a product vision in alignment with program goals
Define and communicate the product roadmap to stakeholders and development teams
Create, maintain and prioritize the product backlog based on business goals and customer needs
Collaborate across the organization to deliver high quality products
Coordinate across various IT and Operations groups spread across North America / EMEA / Asia to understand project progress / issues / risks, and remediate critical issues to the program.
Understand and document dependencies and communicate timeline impacts
Act as the liaison between technical teams and stakeholders to ensure alignment
Understand the technical architecture and ensure it aligns with product requirements
Make informed tradeoff decisions between technical constraints and product goals
Lead the planning and execution of feature development including Sprint planning
Ensure the delivery of products and features meets the timelines and quality expectations
Communicate product progress release plans and challenges to stakeholders
Create communication materials to deliver information to different levels of the organization from the technologists and business users to senior managers
Gather feedback from customers and stakeholders to refine product features
Track product performance through KPIs and user feedback
Collaborate with the customer team together user feedback and ensure the product is solving real problems
The role requires the candidate to have an understanding of program and project management fundamentals, process analysis and design best practices, system architecture principles, and data management.
The need to balance work on multiple projects will make this role complex, challenging and rewarding.

Skills required
10+ years in product ownership, project/program management, and/or business analysis
Experience working across multiple stakeholder groups to prioritize work and understand dependencies
Experience tracking and communicating program and project status
Excellent oral & written communication skills, people-interaction and stakeholder management skills
Strong Data Analysis capability.
Ability to communicate complex analysis in a clear, precise and actionable manner
Strong analytical and problem solving skills, and comfortable working with a certain level of ambiguity
Ability to multi-task with good organizational and time management capabilities
Excellent in MS Office (Word, PowerPoint, Excel)
Strong sense of ownership and accountability for work
Experience working in Agile and Waterfall projects
Bachelors in Computer Science or a related field

Skills Desired
Financial Services experience is a significant plus
Prior experience in modernization projects
Prior experience of working in global and remote teams
Sharepoint skills
JIRA skills

About TEKsystems:

We're partners in transformation. We help clients activate ideas and solutions to take advantage of a new world of opportunity. We are a team of 80,000 strong, working with over 6,000 clients, including 80% of the Fortune 500, across North America, Europe and Asia. As an industry leader in Full-Stack Technology Services, Talent Services, and real-world application, we work with progressive leaders to drive change. That's the power of true partnership. TEKsystems is an Allegis Group company.

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