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Northern Trust is proud to provide innovative financial services and guidance to the world's most successful individuals, families, and institutions by remaining true to our enduring principles of service, expertise, and integrity.
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Role/Department: Product Owner serves as the lead partner on the development team /squad who is responsible for the oversight and delivery of technical and functional capabilities of a product.
Is the leader of the squad who has the decision-making authority and end to end accountability for delivery of the goals of the squad.
The key responsibilities of the role includes: Manages communicated stakeholder expectations on what functionality the product will have and how the product will be released to the end user community.
Frequently shares the product vision with the team.
Makes decisions throughout the development of the product and is ultimately the final decision maker on the functionality of the product.
Defines the user stories for the product, owns product backlog and prioritization of the items in it.
Elaborate stories, acceptance criteria, embracing lean, test driven development, agile practices.
Defines and documents the product's release strategy.
Sequences user stories based on their contribution to the business' strategic goals.
Can change user stories and their sequencing prior to every sprint.
Leads the team planning during program increment planning sessions.
Is responsible for the approval of changes to the release plan and sprint plans.
Decides whether or not to move forward with the product, accepting or rejecting user stories.
Defect management.
Responsible for providing status details to the Capability Manager Serves as the overall leader of the squad and therefore leads rituals such as daily standup, iteration planning, scoping sessions and retrospectives, along with ensuring any blockers are removed.
Responsible for the breakdown of new requirements to ensure lean delivery.
Provide an active role in mitigating impediments impacting successful team completion of Release/Sprint Goals.
Collaborate and communicate continuously, effectively and directly, with engineers, designers, business stakeholders, BA's, SME's and testers.
Skills: Product strategy, planning, and development Strong leadership abilities Strong understanding of technology User story creation and elaboration, and high-level design documentation Sharp analytical and problem-solving skills Excellent organizational and time management skills Outstanding collaboration, communication, presentation, negotiation and leadership skills Highly motivated self-starter with a willingness to learn and a create thinker Ability to adapt very quickly to an ever changing environment In-depthknowledge of lean agile processes and principle Hands-on DevOps experience developing and delivering products in a collaborative, lean, agile team environment Working with Us: As a Northern Trust partner, greater achievements await.
You will be part of a flexible and collaborative work culture in an organization where financial strength and stability is an asset that emboldens us to explore new ideas.
Movement within the organization is encouraged, senior leaders are accessible, and you can take pride in working for a company committed to assisting the communities we serve!
Join a workplace with a greater purpose.
We'd love to learn more about how your interests and experience could be a fit with one of the world's most admired and sustainable companies!
Build your career with us and apply today.
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