Role: Agile Product Owner / leader
Location: TX Remote
12 months contract
As a Squad Leader you blend the ability to seek sophisticated business requests through improving system capabilities with a passion for delivering results. As the product owner you are the endtoend gatekeeper of the squad mission strategy and tactical associated with delivering on strategic priorities. In an agile structure you will partner with other leaders to influence the broader strategic decisions roadmaps and resource requirements set and refine the mission and bring together a team of chapter members to execute on specific product features within the Master Data Management (MDM) reference data platform. You will ensure alignment on the what and when work is to be performed through ongoing planning and prioritization of a product backlog. You will enable squad members to work iteratively innovate through testing and experimentation and learn from failures while celebrating success. You are committed to developing your own expertise and knowledge to ensure you bring the latest thinking to your role.
- Defining refining and communicating the squads mission and roadmap to motivate and build team and partner support and alignment
- Anticipating discovering through ongoing interaction with and prioritizing client / partner needs to serve as their voice and guide of the team
- Defining evaluating and communicating results against acceptance criteria
- Inspecting and evaluating progress and removing impediments
- Measuring performance against established objectives and KPIs that deliver on agreed upon business technology and people results
- Collaborating and coordinating with Chapter Leaders and Scrum Masters to build squad capacity and capability and enabling squad member growth development and learning
- Making informed tradeoff decisions to strike the right balance between quality cost and timelines
- Working with other Squad leads to ensure the platform addresses end of life software components
The Expertise and Skills You Bring
- Bachelors Degree
- 10 Years of work experience
- Experience designing developing and maintaining dynamic products and solutions
- Financial services experience preferred
- Agile experience
- Jira and Jira Align experience preferred
- You take a datafocused approach to understanding customer needs translate strategic objectives into action and prioritize to improve value delivered
- You grasp sophisticated product features and break them into clear and concise stories with welldefined business value and acceptance criteria and optimally communicate these
- You have a strong focus on and identify communicate and remove impediments to progress
- You are capable of leading influencing and motivating colleagues without formal authority and have a track record of building highperforming teams
- You continuously improve and encourage an agile way of working
- You establish and maintain unquestioning relationships as you work collaboratively across Fidelity to deliver business outcomes and seek out the expertise of colleagues to advise on your approach
- You are intellectually curious and model a culture of continuous learning mentoring and coaching
- You have or are committed to developing a balance of technology and nontechnology skills in order to fully appreciate the broad needs of our customers