Job Details:

Job Title: Product Owner

Duration: Long-Term Contract

Location: Minneapolis, MN || On-Site

Job Description:

Qualifications:

• 5 or more years of hands-on experience as a TPE or Business Analyst or related technical analyst capacity.
• Proficient in applying techniques which help when investigating, analyzing, modelling, and recording a business area or system of interest.
• Excellent verbal and written communication skills, ability to conduct and lead technical discussions and document requirements in a clear, concise and complete manner.
• Proficient in using tools (manual or automated) to record the structure, relationships, and use of information within an organization, such as: class diagram and relational data model.
• Proficient in applying standards, practices, codes, and assessment and certification programs relevant to the IT industry and the specific organization or business domain.
• Proficient in establishing relationships, analyzing perspectives, and managing stakeholders from a variety of backgrounds and disciplines; adapting stakeholder engagement style to meet the needs of different audiences.
• Proficient in methods and techniques for preparing and presenting business cases, requests for proposal (RFP) invitations to tender (ITT) and statements of requirements/work both verbally and in writing.
• Acquiring understanding and insights regarding the underlying issues in complex problems or situations through the development of abstract representations, the identification of patterns and the analysis of hypotheses.
• Keep organizational objectives and strategies in mind and ensure courses of action are aligned with the strategic context.
• Establishing relationships, contributing to an open culture, and maintaining contacts with people from a variety of backgrounds and disciplines. Effective, approachable, and sensitive communicator in different communities and cultures. Ability to adapt style and approach to meet the needs of different audiences.
• Bachelor's degree in computer science, Information Systems or related technical field is preferred.
• Experience working in an airline technology environment is preferred, but not required
• Ability to demonstrate clear communication skills in describing, defining, and explaining technical subjects

• Work under minimal supervision exhibiting strong analytical, problem solving and strong and succinct communication skills.

Responsibilities:

• Work to investigate business problems and opportunities, and specify required changes to business processes, people skills, information, technology and organization structures and roles. You'll select, apply, and monitor the use of modelling and analysis techniques, methods, and standards in an informed and proficient way.
• Work effectively with senior business and IT stakeholders, conducting investigations at a strategic level and assuring the feasibility of proposed solutions. You'll take a holistic view of the business situations investigated, ensure that stakeholder perspectives are identified and analyzed with a view to achieving consensus, so that business objectives and requirements are understood and provide a context with which recommended solutions are aligned.
• Responsibility for defining and documenting functional and non-functional requirements for use by Software Development and Quality Assurance teams as specification for building software applications.
• Advise senior stakeholders on business change priorities within the context of the organizational strategy and objectives.
• Utilize business knowledge and experience to assess and advise on the feasibility and relevance of proposed options for business and technical change.
• Be the lead for the detailed requirements and specification documentation and modelling of holistic solutions using standards, methods and techniques as required. You'll maintain links with colleagues within related disciplines such as business operations, software engineering and service delivery functions and support the deployment of business and technical changes.
• Use your skills to plan, arrange and facilitate meetings and workshops with stakeholders throughout the business change and software development lifecycles, taking responsibility for the management of stakeholder relationships across different levels of seniority.
• Support business case development through the identification and definition of business and technical options that will address the business objectives and requirements, and the analysis of the costs, benefits, risks and impacts for each option.
• Assist business stakeholders in defining acceptance tests for new business processes and IT systems and take responsibility for the effective execution of the acceptance tests.