Senior Product Owner for the front-end of a major modernization program

S.i. Systems client is looking for a Senior Product Owner for the front-end of a major modernization program

Contract until March 31st, 2027. Hybrid, 3 days/week onsite in Downtown Vancouver.

Qualifications

Education and Experience

• A business or technical degree with 4-5 years of experience in product management
• Experience with SaaS, regulated environments, agile development, and managing multiple stakeholders would be ideal
• Experience with real estate or legal conveyancing processes would be an asset
• Demonstrated ability to effectively translate business requirements into technical/functional requirements and launching new features into production
• Extensive understanding of the development cycle, agile frameworks, and how to manage a development sprint
• Strong communication and interpersonal skills with the ability to adapt to multiple stakeholders and clients

Knowledge, Skills and Abilities

• Strong analytical, conceptual, and problem-solving abilities
• Strong written and oral communication skills, with the ability to present ideas in user-friendly language
• A self-starter with the ability to work in a fast-paced, team-oriented, collaborative environment
• Extensive information technology experience preferred (such as computer science or systems engineering)
• Knowledge of Jira and Confluence
• Knowledge of business and systems deployments in the public sector

Key Responsibilities and Accountabilities

• Lead a collaborative needs gathering process with customers to elicit and document business, functional and non-functional requirements
• Author high quality user stories and acceptance criteria and work with others such as Architects, UX professionals and other product team members to do the same
• Own and maintain the product backlog by building, maintaining and prioritizing the team backlog of user stories, defects and enablers with input Product Managers, Architects and other stakeholders.
• Review, reprioritize and communicate story details to facilitate effective sprint planning and management of dependencies between stories and teams
• Track and communicate progress on all requirements associated with releases
• Collaborate with Product Manager to help plan, prioritize and scope the product roadmap
• Provide ongoing guidance and support for scrum ceremonies and offer key inputs based on the performance of previous sprints and challenges experienced
• Collaborate with the team and stakeholders to facilitate team demos
• Actively participate, support, and continually improve each release through all release activities including sell off, acceptance testing and all associated formal testing
• Lead the resolution of key customer and stakeholder concerns and escalations
• Ensure that post operations activities and action items are completed including final formal test/operations, smoke testing, etc.
• Work with the Technical Lead to accept development user stories as complete based on the definition of done
• Work closely with the Release Manager and Operations to ensure release notes are created, required training is performed, and communications are supported