BA / Product Owner (Closed)

SkillStorm is seeking a Product Owner for our client in Jersey City, NJ Candidates must be able to work on SkillStorm's W2; not a C2C position. EOE, including disability/vets.

Job Description:

• Trade Booking and Lifecycle Management offers a dynamic and competitive environment with exciting career opportunities. We’re an organization with deep technical and industry experience that specializes in designing and developing highly distributed, integrated trading solutions in an environment where performance and scalability are critical to success. Our goals are strategic; to help our business partners improve and sustain business – driving revenue while mitigating risks and improving operational efficiencies. In a revolutionary capital markets landscape driven by far reaching regulatory reform and cross-industry initiatives our teams leverage their deep business knowledge and technical expertise to build and integrate platforms that offer front to back electronic processing and risk management capabilities in a highly motivated and competitive work environment.
• When you’re with Trade Booking group, you are part of a dynamic, cross-functional organization with business analysts, developers, and systems engineers, testing professionals and business/technical support professionals. While you specialize in a particular competency, you also have the opportunity to work across disciplines with individuals who have deep subject-matter knowledge and technical experience. Our current and strategic focus is around FX Cash, Bonds, and Derivatives – Straight-Through Processing, Post Trade workflows, Industry workflow execution (Mandatory Clearing, Aggregation, External Matching etc.) and Regulatory reporting.
• We are seeking a product owner who can lead the product development within QZ Trade Manager organization. This role is responsible for maximizing the value for a product. Key responsibilities include defining 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. This role works closely with stakeholders to understand their needs, and with the Product Manager in a scaled Agile model to ensure there is alignment. They are developing in the role of a Product Owner, possessing a working knowledge of the product, and basic understanding of the business or technology domain. A Product Owner is an individual contributor to a team.

Responsibilities:

• With some guidance, creates the vision and roadmap for the product to align with strategic direction for the business or technology domain.
• 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.
• With some guidance, creates and prioritizes stories in the product backlog.
• Refine stories with the team to ensure there are enough “ready” stories to load the next 1-2 sprints.
• Review and accept stories and make on-the-spot decisions regarding scope and requirements.
• Work in partnership with the team to ensure that optimum value is obtained through technology and through an advanced understanding of the business.
• Analysis, planning, and execution to develop cross-asset operations workflow dashboard
• Lead the design and delivery of strategic trade booking components for other asset classes
• Deliver according to our Client’s Solutions Delivery Management (SDM) standards
• Ensure the solutions are aligned to the overall Global Markets strategies and blueprints
• Effectively raise/manage the delivery risks and issues
• Support the production environment, assist in the diagnosis and resolution of incidents, and maintain the stability and integrity of systems.

Required Skills and Qualifications:

• Experience owning product development in the past
• Strategic thinker who can challenge status-quo and develop cross-asset solutions
• Effective communicator across many levels of the organization
• Experience working with senior stakeholders and business executives
• Experience managing large scale projects and effectively managed risks/issues
• Ability to work in fast development environment and quickly adapt to the changes.
• 10-15 years of working experience developing software applications
• 5-10 years of working experience within financial domain
• Capital markets business knowledge, including FX, Bonds, and Derivatives.

Primary Skill:

• Python
• Business analysis

Desired Skills:

• Agile

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