What are the responsibilities and job description for the Technical Product Owner position at HMG America?
HMG America LLC is the best Business Solutions focused Information Technology Company with IT consulting and services, software and web development, staff augmentation and other professional services. One of our direct clients is looking for Technical Product Owner in Minneapolis, MN. Below is the detailed job description.
Role: Technical Product Owner
Location: Minneapolis, MN (Onsite)
Duration: Long Term
Job Description:
Gather, develop, coordinate, and maintain business requirements for various projects and/or systems from the initial phase to final implementation, ensuring requirements meet standards.
- Documents and improves existing process and information systems.
- Designs and executes new technology solutions.
- Fosters long-term relationships with business partners.
- Manages project tasks and schedules.
- Translate Product vision into meaningful Epics and Stories.
- Work on a variety of IT projects, either in the form of internal development or in conjunction with external vendors.
- Ability to interact with all organizational levels and exercise good judgment to recommend solutions.
- Aptitude to identify technical requirements and translate to adequate technical stories.
- Lead deep-dive technical analysis sessions, and ensure results are clearly documented.
- Assist Product Owner with prioritizing stories, epics and themes to ensure work focuses on those with maximum value that are aligned with product strategy.
- Assist Product Owner with backlog management, iteration planning, and grooming of the user stories.
- Assist with managing team delivery commitments and helping to remove impediments.
- Assist with the development of project definitions, cost/benefit and risk analysis, work plans, progress reports, and presentations.
- Manage several concurrent projects of varying priority and complexity, across multiple teams and multiple business divisions.
- Measure and communicate product business value and ROI.
- Enjoy working in a high-profile environment with fluid priorities and ambiguity.
- Ensuring the team produces continual and on-time delivery of value
- Minimum 7 years of business and technology analysis experience.
- Excellent communication, presentation and leadership skills.
- Excellent organizational and time management skills.
- Proven experience with business and technical requirements analysis, elicitation, modeling, verification, and methodology development.
- Familiar with Agile concepts, methods (e.g. Scrum or Kanban), and supporting tools (e.g. Jira, Agility/Version One).
- Must have the ability to transform business and functional requirements into technical solutions
- Experience as a technical product owner.
- Extensive experience defining agile requirements (Epics/stories), including functional and technical in a product/services organization.
- Understanding and usage of agile metrics (velocity, burn downs) to help the team be more productive.
- Excellent analytical and problem-solving skills.
- Excellent negotiation skills and ability to partner with business stakeholders to prioritize backlog, as necessary.
- Creative thinker with great attention to details.