Product Owner - Tech Delivery - GBS IND

Job Description:

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Global Business Services

Global Business Services delivers Technology and Operations capabilities to Lines of Business and Staff Support Functions of Bank of America through a centrally managed, globally integrated delivery model and globally resilient operations.

Global Business Services is recognized for flawless execution, sound risk management, operational resiliency, operational excellence, and innovation.

In India, we are present in five locations and operate as BA Continuum India Private Limited (BACI), a non-banking subsidiary of Bank of America Corporation and the operating company for India operations of Global Business Services.

Process Overview*

Global Wholesale Banking Technology (GWBT) comprises of technology for Commercial, Corporate and Investment Banking Customers of Bank of America across the globe.  The team works closely with the business and strategic partners to architect, design and develop applications for the Global Wholesale Banking Line of Business.

Job Description:

This role will be responsible for maximizing the value for one or more products for for EMEA Tech Global banking Applications. Key responsibilities include defining the vision and roadmap for the Trade & Credit products , defining, and prioritizing the features/epics in the program backlog, and articulating this to both stakeholders and development teams. This role works closely with various stakeholders to understand their needs, and with Products Owners to ensure they are aligned on priorities. This role will be responsible for review the scope and provide support as a Product owner to scrum team delivering key initiative projects/programs for EMEA Tech Application

Responsibilities:

• Work closely with Business stakeholders to understand business needs, analyze problems, and capture requirements, and then working closely with the Development Team to refine the requirement into specifications that can be executed by the team.
• Create EPICS/Stories in JIRA for the projects with appropriate user acceptance criteria
• Define the product vision for the PI planning and Product roadmap for the aligned projects
• Define and prioritizing the features/epics in the program backlog, and articulating this to business stakeholders and scrum development teams.
• Drive and contribute to product backlog refinement meetings for scrum team
• Participate in Sprint reviews and demos and share feedback to the scrum team
• Maintain and prioritize product backlog for the project
• Acts as the product(s) subject matter expert to support scope and requirement decisions
• Documents process, procedures and workflows associated with applications
• Refines stories with the team to ensure there are enough “ready” stories to load the next 1-2 sprints.
• Reviews and accepts stories and is empowered to make on-the-spot decisions on scope and requirements
• Work closely with various team and Documents process, procedures and workflows associated with applications.
• Highlight and escalate risks appropriately for projects.
• Accountable for analyzing present-state, developing alternative future-state approaches and facilitating implementation.
• Partners with the business to develop and transition plans, including ongoing success measures, to sustain the change.

Requirements:

Education: Any graduate / B.E / B.Tech. / M E / M.Tech

Certifications (if any):

Experience Range: 08– 12 years

Foundational Skills:

• Should have Experience between 10+ years.
• Strong Global wholesale trade and credit banking domain expertise
• Strong Product owner experience, ability to lead  agile teams and drive to results.
• Must have the ability to work independently with minimal supervision
• Excellent oral and written communication skills
• Excellent time management and prioritization skills
• Knowledge of business processes and technology delivery methodology
• Knowledge managing both a Waterfall and Agile development environment
• Demonstrates leadership and problem solving abilities
• Self-driven personality rather than being told what to do.
• Experience in tracking the tasks and progress of a major project, escalating and resolving issues, planning for and managing resources and funding. Holds resources accountable for deliverables on time and budget
• Schedules and facilitates regular meetings to review progress and status, and ad hoc topical meetings; formulates agendas and documents minutes, action items. etc.
• Ability to provide project status on deliverables or escalate issues to sr. leaders and executives

Desired skills:

• Experience in working in SAFe methodologies.
• Good working knowledge in Agile teams
• Experience working on Mainframe based applications
• Experience working on Trade and credit application or banking application

Work Timings (whether Rotational shifts or Fixed):  Fixed, 10:00 am – 07:00 pm

Location: Hyderabad