Product owner

Role - Technical Product Owner (Full Time)

Exp - 8 yrs and above

Location - Brookfield Wisconsin, USA (primary) and Minneapolis (Secondary) - Onsite (3 days in office)

Visa - Preferred Independent

Key Responsibilities:

• Maintains and refines product backlog; creates user stories and acceptance criteria and prioritizes all stories to ensure work focuses on those with maximum business value that align with product strategy.
• Acts as primary liaison between the business and Agile teams, ensuring the teams understand vision for the products.
• Works closely in a hands-on style with development team including addressing daily prioritization needs, providing real-time feedback and answering questions on an ongoing basis.
• Slices and dices business requirements / epics into user stories in Jira tool for springboot, rest/graphQL API developers.
• Works with Product Management to set release dates, determine when sufficient value has been delivered to release to market.
• Coordinates with technical teams to explain the technical requirement including Soap and Rest API Design, OpenAPI, Swagger, GraphQL, JSON and XML impact.

Required Qualification:

• Cards and Payment domain experience and understanding of Issuer bank card processing platform
• Product owner experience, ideally managing APIs as a product in a High paced environment, where requirement change management is a key.
• Expertise in Agile product development
• Excellent communication skills to be able to influence peers and executives, as well as external partners
• Experience defining and leading the delivery of an API portfolio that is consumable by both internal and external parties.
• Strong work ethic demonstrated attention to detail, excellent time management and organizational skills.
• Ability to work both independently and within a close team environment.
• Ability to listen to and understand business needs.
• Familiar with Soap and Rest API Design, OpenAPI / Swagger, GraphQL, JSON and XML, knowledge of Spring framework and Kafka Streaming is a plus.
• Familiar Security frameworks (e.g., JWT, OATH2) for APIs.
• Knowledge of Git, Jenkins & Rancher is a plus.
• Experience in creating REST API documentation using Swagger and YAML or similar tools desirable
• Hands on experience on Jira, Confluence and Mural board.
• Standard industry certifications such as SAFe, CSPO, or PSPO are preferred