Product Owner(with Lending domain)

Job Title: Product Owner

Location: New York, NY | Pittsburgh, PA | Philadelphia, PA | Onsite

Employment Type: Permanent

Duration: Full-time

About:

VLink, founded in 2006, is a leading global provider of software engineering services with next-gen technologies and best-in-class talent. Our Headquarters are in the U.S, and we have offices in 7+ countries from North America-Europe to APAC, with expansion plans in the Middle East.

With over 1,000 employees working globally, VLink has helped SMBs, and large enterprises achieve their business goals, and gained the trust of Fortune-250 companies. VLink is 'Great Place to Work® CertifiedTM' and has been a consistent winner as- Best Places to Work in CT. Trust, collaboration, and accountability are the three elements that are at the core of VLink's work culture.

We value our professionals, providing comprehensive benefits and the opportunity for growth.

Job Description

Our client is seeking a Product Owner in the Lending domain, who will be responsible for defining Stories and prioritizing the Team Backlog to streamline the execution of program priorities while maintaining the conceptual and technical integrity of the Features or components for the team. This team is highly skilled, dynamic, and supportive of one another – great team to work with.

The projects are fast paced, use new and innovative technologies or methodologies to build new products or for new initiatives.

Your future duties and responsibilities:

• Participate as a member of the agile squad with a focus on User Story generation, business analysis, testing and validation.
• Serve as the primary source of external information for the Scrum teams, offering clear definitions of the targeted capability, the intended value to the customer, and functional/non functional requirements framing the scope of the capability – independent of implementation.
• Play a leadership role in the Scrum team to ensure that capabilities are in scope, on time, and of high quality, directing or participating in all team ceremonies including stand ups, planning, review and retrospectives.
• Use case development, analysis, and delivery leadership in support of multiple backlogs and work streams.
• Translate product directives into backlog items, effectively representing customer needs.
• Author, refine and approve backlog items, with clearly articulated acceptance criteria.
• Manage backlog contents and priority, ensuring sufficient depth of groomed items for development consumption and commitment.
• Document intended product behavior and user experience in sufficient detail for downstream activities.
• Work closely with development team on implementation issues.
• Facilitate successful delivery for assigned releases Ensure internal IT and business needs are clearly identified, designed, and constructed to meet quality standards.

Required qualifications to be successful in this role:

• Minimum 5+ years of experience as Business Systems Analyst.
• Minimum 2+ years of experience as a Product Owner.
• 2+ years of experience in Digital API portals, API Enablement initiatives
• Build strong dependency relationships
• Understand architecture across dependency applications
• Interpret requirements to technical needs
• Do technical analysis to determine if systems will execute the functions noted by business requirements
• Experience in research, analysis, End to end customer mapping.
• Experience working in Agile and /or Scrum development.
• Preferable working experience in integration-based projects.
• Lending Domain experience with basic knowledge of system architecture and application portfolio.

Benefits

Benefits are offered to eligible professionals on their first day of employment to include:

• Competitive compensation
• Comprehensive insurance options
• Matching contributions through the 401(k) plan and the share purchase plan
• Paid time off for vacation, holidays, and sick time
• Paid parental leave
• Learning opportunities and tuition assistance
• Wellness and Well being programs

Employment Practices:

VLink is an equal opportunity employer committed to fostering an inclusive environment where diversity is celebrated. All qualified applicants will be considered for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, disability, or veteran status. Employment is contingent upon successful completion of a background check.

This job application process may use AI-powered tools to assist in screening and evaluating applications based on objective, job-related qualifications. AI is used solely to support the recruitment process and all final hiring decisions are made exclusively by our human recruitment team.

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