Product Owner / Sr Agile Business Analyst
NTT DATA Corporation

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Responsible for vision of what to build. Conveying that vision to the scrum team, in part through the product backlog, which is a prioritized features list for the product, and execution of the strategy. The Product Owner has a significant role in quality and is empowered to accept user stories as completed. This role has significant relationships outside the local team, including working with the Product Manager to prepare for the PI Planning event. This role is responsible for supporting one or more teams within the Agile Release Train, and ensuring the pipeline (backlog) stays full, ready, and prioritized. This role acts at the team level with interactions at the Train level.

Responsibilities:

- Facilitate the discovery of functional and non-functional requirements and document in the form of epics, stories, wireframes, business rules, and acceptance criteria.

- Build, organize and maintain the project backlog over the course of the project, often serving as a partner and mentor for the client Product Owner.

- Construct/prioritize a single team backlog with significant collaboration from IT, Business, and Agile leadership

- Support portfolio product alignment across ARTs/Teams within the same Portfolio.

- Facilitate the ongoing backlog grooming process, supporting the Product Owner to define value, priority in order to organize/select stories for upcoming sprints and to organize the backlog into a high-level release roadmap.

- Ensuring stories are "ready " for upcoming sprints and describing stories in detail during sprint planning ceremonies.

- Communicate requirements to stakeholders; ensure developers and testers understand the stories and have a common understanding on how the user story will be built, implemented, and tested.

- Analyze new requests from stakeholders and determine if the request is a new story, a modification to an existing story, or already covered in an existing story and add to backlog as appropriate.

- Participate in all scrum ceremonies. Facilitate team level ceremonies and events. Back up Product Manager as needed.

- Train team on requirements processes and tools in use for the project. Provide thought leadership to teams, influence and and exercise leadership.

Provide coaching and mentoring to agile teams and Jr Product Owners.

- Ensure requirements cover the scope as defined in the SOW. Identify deviations from the SOW and communicate to project leadership in support of the change control process.

- Managing features and stories from a customer perspective.

- Identify, communicate and break down features to MVP

- Develop user stories from prioritized features in collaboration with Product Manager

- Strive to maintain a holistic view of product and ensure that the end-to-end experience is strong

Optional Responsibilities:

- Establish a requirements management strategy for the project, which describes; process for elicitation, documentation standards and format, tools, meeting cadence, backlog grooming process, review & approval process, change process, and communications processes.

- Perform functional testing

- Review testing issues and determine if the issue is a bug or behaving as expected

- Write user acceptance test UAT scripts

- Facilitate user acceptance testing

- Write training materials and train new users

- Assist with content entry and verification tasks

Qualifications:

- Scrum Master or Product Owner certification required. SAFe certification preferred.

- Experience with Agile management tools a plus (e.g. VersionOne, Jira, Rally)

- 7-10yrs experience as Business Analyst or Product Owner

- 3yrs of related experience with technology interface and agile experience.

- Experience as Product Owner for more than one Team simultaneously

- Travel as needed for project assignments

- Bachelor's degree or equivalent experience