TSR Consulting
Technical Product Owner / Business Analyst
TSR Consulting, New York, New York, us, 10261
About TSR:
TSR is a relationship-based, customer-focused IT and technical services staffing company.
For over 40 years TSR, Inc. and its wholly owned subsidiary, TSR Consulting Services, have prospered in the Information Technology staffing business, earning the respect of companies both large and small with well refined candidate screening, timely placement, and a real understanding of the right skill sets required by our clients.
Mission & Vision
We do not believe in building a vision around the company but building a company around our vision, which is simply;
Every employee's voice matters, their effort is appreciated, and their talent is rewarded.
We challenge each employee daily, to raise the bar on how we treat our consultants and candidates. For far too long in this industry, candidates have been ghosted, lied to, or placed at a client and then forgotten about. Each day our staff works tirelessly at qualifying and placing, top talent with our clients, in a compassionate and caring manner.
Not every candidate is a match for the job, but every candidate and consultant will be treated with respect and professionalism.
Technical Product Owner / Business Analyst
Job Description
Location: New York, New YorkType: ContractJob #80995Our client, a leading financial services company, is hiring a
Technical Product Owner/ Business Analyst
on a contract basis.Job ID# 80995
Work Location:
New York, NY (hybrid- 3 days a week onsite)
Background:The ISG Mainframe is 40+ years old, and the number of experts is decreasing over time. Systems are overly complex, dependent on outdated technology, and expensive.The Legacy Modernization Program mission is to renovate mainframe platforms to improve resiliency and time to market and enable meeting the challenges of scale and complexity over time, as well as mitigating expertise attrition risk to the firm, reducing risk by decommissioning the ISG mainframe. We have a culture of partnership and collaboration, and our team members are enthusiastic about learning the business and working closely with our users to help solve their problems.
Role Description:We are looking for a technical product owner and business analyst for the Legacy Modernization Programs 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 needsCollaborate across the organization to deliver high quality productsCoordinate 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 impactsAct as the liaison between technical teams and stakeholders to ensure alignmentUnderstand the technical architecture and ensure it aligns with product requirementsMake informed tradeoff decisions between technical constraints and product goalsLead the planning and execution of feature development including Sprint planningEnsure the delivery of products and features meets the timelines and quality expectationsCommunicate product progress release plans and challenges to stakeholdersCreate communication materials to deliver information to different levels of the organization from the technologists and business users to senior managersGather feedback from customers and stakeholders to refine product featuresTrack product performance through KPIs and user feedbackCollaborate with the customer team together user feedback and ensure the product is solving real problemsThe 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 analysisExperience working across multiple stakeholder groups to prioritize work and understand dependenciesExperience tracking and communicating program and project statusExcellent oral & written communication skills, people-interaction and stakeholder management skillsStrong Data Analysis capability.Ability to communicate complex analysis in a clear, precise and actionable mannerStrong analytical and problem solving skills, and comfortable working with a certain level of ambiguityAbility to multi-task with good organizational and time management capabilitiesExcellent in MS Office (Word, PowerPoint, Excel)Strong sense of ownership and accountability for workExperience working in Agile and Waterfall projectsBachelors in Computer Science or a related field SkillsDesired:
Financial Services experience is a significant plusPrior experience in modernization projectsPrior experience of working in global and remote teamsSharepoint skillsJIRA skills
Pay Rate: Upto $98/hr
TSR is a relationship-based, customer-focused IT and technical services staffing company.
For over 40 years TSR, Inc. and its wholly owned subsidiary, TSR Consulting Services, have prospered in the Information Technology staffing business, earning the respect of companies both large and small with well refined candidate screening, timely placement, and a real understanding of the right skill sets required by our clients.
Mission & Vision
We do not believe in building a vision around the company but building a company around our vision, which is simply;
Every employee's voice matters, their effort is appreciated, and their talent is rewarded.
We challenge each employee daily, to raise the bar on how we treat our consultants and candidates. For far too long in this industry, candidates have been ghosted, lied to, or placed at a client and then forgotten about. Each day our staff works tirelessly at qualifying and placing, top talent with our clients, in a compassionate and caring manner.
Not every candidate is a match for the job, but every candidate and consultant will be treated with respect and professionalism.
Technical Product Owner / Business Analyst
Job Description
Location: New York, New YorkType: ContractJob #80995Our client, a leading financial services company, is hiring a
Technical Product Owner/ Business Analyst
on a contract basis.Job ID# 80995
Work Location:
New York, NY (hybrid- 3 days a week onsite)
Background:The ISG Mainframe is 40+ years old, and the number of experts is decreasing over time. Systems are overly complex, dependent on outdated technology, and expensive.The Legacy Modernization Program mission is to renovate mainframe platforms to improve resiliency and time to market and enable meeting the challenges of scale and complexity over time, as well as mitigating expertise attrition risk to the firm, reducing risk by decommissioning the ISG mainframe. We have a culture of partnership and collaboration, and our team members are enthusiastic about learning the business and working closely with our users to help solve their problems.
Role Description:We are looking for a technical product owner and business analyst for the Legacy Modernization Programs 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 needsCollaborate across the organization to deliver high quality productsCoordinate 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 impactsAct as the liaison between technical teams and stakeholders to ensure alignmentUnderstand the technical architecture and ensure it aligns with product requirementsMake informed tradeoff decisions between technical constraints and product goalsLead the planning and execution of feature development including Sprint planningEnsure the delivery of products and features meets the timelines and quality expectationsCommunicate product progress release plans and challenges to stakeholdersCreate communication materials to deliver information to different levels of the organization from the technologists and business users to senior managersGather feedback from customers and stakeholders to refine product featuresTrack product performance through KPIs and user feedbackCollaborate with the customer team together user feedback and ensure the product is solving real problemsThe 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 analysisExperience working across multiple stakeholder groups to prioritize work and understand dependenciesExperience tracking and communicating program and project statusExcellent oral & written communication skills, people-interaction and stakeholder management skillsStrong Data Analysis capability.Ability to communicate complex analysis in a clear, precise and actionable mannerStrong analytical and problem solving skills, and comfortable working with a certain level of ambiguityAbility to multi-task with good organizational and time management capabilitiesExcellent in MS Office (Word, PowerPoint, Excel)Strong sense of ownership and accountability for workExperience working in Agile and Waterfall projectsBachelors in Computer Science or a related field SkillsDesired:
Financial Services experience is a significant plusPrior experience in modernization projectsPrior experience of working in global and remote teamsSharepoint skillsJIRA skills
Pay Rate: Upto $98/hr