Product Owner - Tech Delivery

Job Description:

Job Title: Product Owner - Tech Delivery

Corporate Title:  Up to Vice President

Location:  Dublin

Company Overview:

At Bank of America, we are guided by a common purpose to help make financial lives better through the power of every connection.  Responsible Growth is how we run our company and how we deliver for our clients, teammates, communities and shareholders every day.

One of the keys to driving Responsible Growth is being a great place to work for our teammates around the world. We’re devoted to being a diverse and inclusive workplace for everyone. We hire individuals with a broad range of backgrounds and experiences and invest heavily in our teammates and their families by offering competitive benefits to support their physical, emotional, and financial well-being.

Bank of America believes both in the importance of working together and offering flexibility to our employees. We use a multi-faceted approach for flexibility, depending on the various roles in our organization.

Working at Bank of America will give you a great career with opportunities to learn, grow and make an impact, along with the power to make a difference. Join us!

Location Overview:

Our Central Park office in Leopardstown, boasts modern facilities based in Dublin’s premium business park. With an onsite gym and staff restaurant, all your daily needs are conveniently catered for. Travel options include the LUAS network and the Central Park shuttle service between Dublin City Centre and Central Park. We also provide tax saver tickets as part of our award-winning benefits package, which means getting to work has never been so easy.

Role Description:

Due to an increase in our programme portfolio, we are looking for a Software Engineer to join our Dublin based Global Payments Orchestrator Technology team. We are a global team made up of a diverse range of people from varied backgrounds who each bring unique skillsets and perspectives. The team is responsible for delivering large programmes of change such as Global Payments Transformation, External Mandates like the Industry wide ISO20022 Migration.

Responsibilities:

• Responsible for maximizing the value for a product.
• Defines the vision and roadmap for the product, defining and prioritizing stories in the product backlog, and articulating this to both stakeholders and the development team.
• Works closely with stakeholders to understand their needs, and with the Product Manager in a scaled Agile model to ensure there is alignment.
• Communicates the product vision and roadmap to stakeholders and the team.
• Collaborates with stakeholders to understand their needs and problems.
• Creates and prioritizes work for one team. Learning to collaborate with cross-functional teams.
• 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.
• Works in partnership with the team to ensure that optimum value is obtained through technology and through an advanced understanding of the business.

What we are looking for:

• Ability to document detailed product concepts in the context of user needs, business impacts, and technical requirements.
• Experience with and understanding of agile/scrum methodologies, principles, and practices.
• Experience with agile, iterative development process.
• Experience with JIRA and AgileView – leaning toward expert.
• Banking or financial transaction processing Experience highly beneficial.
• Experience with SharePoint is a plus.
• A minimum of Bachelor’s degree from an accredited program in Information Systems, Computer Science, Business Information Systems or related field or equivalent work experience required.
• Material experience in a variety of product management roles including acting as an Agile Product Owner, Business Analyst or Development Lead.

Skills that will help:

• POPM certification

Benefits of working at Bank of America:

Ireland

• Private healthcare for you and your family plus an annual health screen to help you manage your physical wellness with the option to purchase a screen for your partner
• Competitive pension plan, life assurance and group income protection cover if you become unable to work as a result of a disability or health reasons
• 20 days of back-up childcare and 20 days of back-up adult care per annum 
• The ability to change your core benefits as well as the option of selecting a variety of flexible benefits to suit your personal circumstances including access to a wellbeing account, travel insurance, critical illness etc.
• Access to an Employee Assistance Program for confidential support and help for everyday matters
• Access to free counselling through the Employee Assistance Program and virtual GP services through our private health care plan
• Ability to donate to charities of your choice and the bank will match your contribution
• Opportunity to access our Arts & Culture corporate membership program and receive discounted entry to some of Ireland’s most iconic cultural institutions and exhibitions.
• Opportunity to give back to your community, develop new skills and work with new groups of people by volunteering in your local community.

Bank of America:

Good conduct and sound judgment is crucial to our long term success. It’s important that all employees in the organisation understand the expected standards of conduct and how we manage conduct risk. Individual accountability and an ownership mind-set are the cornerstones of our Code of Conduct and are at the heart of managing risk well.

We are an equal opportunities employer and ensure that no applicant is subject to less favourable treatment on the grounds of gender, gender identity or gender reassignment, marital or civil partner status, race, religion or belief, colour, nationality, ethnic or national origins, membership of the Traveller community, age, sexual orientation, pregnancy or maternity, civil status,  socio-economic background, family status or physical or mental disability. The Bank selects candidates for interview based on their skills, qualifications and experience.

We strive to ensure that our recruitment processes are accessible for all candidates and encourage any candidates to tell us about any adjustment requirements.