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

• 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.

• Agile (Scrum)
• Data Analytics, databases, data related projects
• Finance Technology
• JIRA and Confluence
• Merchant Services
• Product Analyst
• User Story development and clarification

• 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.