Senior Product Owner Advisor

At Jack Henry, we deliver technology solutions that are digitally transforming and empowering community banks and credit unions to provide enhanced and streamlined user experiences to their customers and members. Our best-in-class products are just the start as we lay the groundwork for the future of digital banking and payments. We hope you'll join us. We can't do it without you. 

We seek a highly skilled and motivated Senior Technical Product Owner to join our team. In this role, you will work closely with our development teams to ensure the security of our software solutions. You will partner with the product and engineering managers to lead and execute the Symitar Customization deliveries for the Symitar core platforms.  

What you'll be responsible for: 

• Leads stakeholder meetings and encourages innovative ideas from agile team members and stakeholders
• Leads product demonstrations with clients, prospects, and other external stakeholders.
• Creates, maintains, prioritizes, and sequences their product backlog based on business value or ROI.
• Creates user stories and acceptance criteria based on the Voice of the Customer (VOC) that are granular enough for a single sprint.
• Prioritizes user stories and defects/bugs to seed a sprint’s backlog based on the highest business value.
• Participates in organizational backlog prioritization, sprint and release planning, daily stand-ups, demos/reviews, retrospectives, product backlog refinements, and other Scrum-related ceremonies.
• Develops and maintains standards for progress visibility and their team’s ‘definition of done’ for all tasks.
• Coordinates beta testing of new products, features, and seeds backlog with recommended improvements.
• Collaborates with the team’s Scrum Master to build a self-organized team.
• Serves as a resource and participant in business process re-design activities.
• Performs independent research to prepare for product and industry trends.
• Assists less experienced peers.
• May perform other job duties as assigned.

What you'll need to have: 

• Ten years of experience as a product owner or in a similar role, with a background in the financial software industry.
• Bachelor of Science in Computer Science or a related field, with a solid foundation in software development principles, algorithms, data structures, and computer systems, provides the technical expertise necessary to develop and deliver commercial software solutions.
• 5 years experience as a Software Engineer in Java, SQL, C, PL1, Python, or other relevant languages.
• Experience working with customers to define requirements
• Experience in agile development and using agile tools.
• Experience managing 1-2 backlogs for sustaining and strategic products

What would be nice for you to have: 

• Strong communication skills working with multiple teams to coordinate cross-team dependencies, user stories, and status.  
• Ability to drive multiple initiatives in parallel 
• Knowledge of FinTech trends and practices. 
• Experience working with hierarchical or relational databases 
• Comfortable working with databases and web applications. 
• Experience working with commercial software for Credit Unions 
• Lead software through their end-of-lifecycle processes 
• Oversee multiple sustaining and strategic initiatives while meeting deadlines 
• Demonstrated experience in managing and executing all phases of the Software Development Life Cycle (SDLC) within an Agile framework, including planning, design, development, testing, deployment, and maintenance for commercial software products. Proficiency in applying Agile principles such as Scrum or Kanban to deliver high-quality software solutions in fast-paced, collaborative environments 
• Managing the completion of projects/programs that require coordinating with different parts of the organization 
• Experience in a software modernization effort, implementing new cloud-based architectures and technologies. 

If you got this far, we hope you're feeling excited about this opportunity. Even if you don't feel you meet every single requirement on this posting, we still encourage you to apply. We're eager to meet motivated people who align with Jack Henry's mission and can contribute to our company in a variety of ways.

Why Jack Henry?

At Jack Henry, we pride ourselves through our motto of, "Do the right thing, do whatever it takes, and have fun." We recognize the value of our associates and believe much of our company's strength and success depends on their well-being.

We demonstrate our commitment by offering outstanding benefit programs to ensure the physical, mental & financial well-being of our people is always met.

Culture of Commitment

Ask our associates why they love Jack Henry, and many will tell you it is because our culture is exceptional. We do great things together. Rising to meet challenges and seeking opportunities is part of who we are as an organization. Our culture has helped us stay strong through challenging times and we credit our dedicated associates for our success. Visit our Corporate Responsibility site to learn more about our culture and commitment to our people, customers, community, environment, and shareholders.

Equal Employment Opportunity

At Jack Henry, we know we are better together. We value, respect, and protect the uniqueness each of us brings. Innovation flourishes by including all voices and makes our business - and our society - stronger. Jack Henry is an equal opportunity employer and we are committed to providing equal opportunity in all of our employment practices, including selection, hiring, performance management, promotion, transfer, compensation, benefits, education, training, social, and recreational activities to all persons regardless of race, religious creed, color, national origin, ancestry, physical disability, mental disability, genetic information, pregnancy, marital status, sex, gender, gender identity, gender expression, age, sexual orientation, and military and veteran status, or any other protected status protected by local, state or federal law.

No one will be subject to, and Jack Henry prohibits, any form of discipline, reprisal, intimidation, or retaliation for good faith reports or complaints of discrimination of any kind, pursuing any discrimination claim, or cooperating in related investigations.

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