National Indemnity Company
Product Owner - Finance
Omaha, NE · Mid · Full-time
No sponsorshipDetected 31 days ago
CI/CDDevOpsProject ManagementAgileJiraExcelLeadershipCommunicationCollaboration
About the role
- Our companies, as members of the Berkshire Hathaway group of Insurance Companies, provides opportunities for professionals interested in just that.
- A Brief Overview The Product Owner II is responsible for identifying, organizing, prioritizing, and assessing work for a software delivery team.
- The Product Owner's responsibilities include gathering feature requests, scheduling releases and coordinating sprints.
Responsibilities
- Collaborates with key stakeholders to define goals and create an execution plan for development projects, focusing on outcomes rather than solutions
Requirements
- Bachelor's Degree in related field or equivalent work experience required.
- Knowledge of Agile methodologies (Scrum, Kanban, etc.)
- Knowledge of software development practices and procedures
- Experience working in application lifecycle management tools such as DevOps, JIRA, or Rally
- Experience with business analysis or project management
Benefits
- We care about your health and wellbeing!
- Benefits, Perks and more!
Company info
- NICO National Indemnity Company Want to work for a company with unparalleled financial strength and stability that offers "large company" benefits with an exciting, friendly, and "small company" atmosphere?
- The Product Owner II is responsible for identifying, organizing, prioritizing, and assessing work for a software delivery team.
- Abilities include identifying user needs and working with cross-functional teams to manage product releases.
- Responsible for facilitating communication between stakeholders and delivery team(s), as well as helping clearly define what should be built on behalf of the relevant business team(s) and why.
- Expected to interact with subject matter experts across multiple departments and to support the BA/QA professionals on the team in creating users stories and developing test plans built around the product and project requirements.
- This position will be with National Indemnity Company in Omaha, Nebraska and will be a hybrid work schedule of 50% in the office at our Corporate Headquarters.
- Sponsorship is not available for this position.
- A Brief Overview
- What will you do?
- IDENTIFY PRODUCT TEAM GOALS: Collaborates with key stakeholders to define goals and create an execution plan for development projects, focusing on outcomes rather than solutions
- USER STORIES AND RELEASE PLANNING: Translates product initiative requirements to functional team members by defining user stories for the team. Maintains and applies understanding of work process dependencies into functional requirements.
- PRODUCT TEAM GUIDANCE AND DIRECTION: Provides overall leadership, guidance, and support of software product delivery team(s). Works with Scrum Masters and Technical Leads to help direct, motivate, and guide the delivery team(s). Works with BA/QA professionals to support the development of project test plans, test scripts, and the organization of the testing efforts for the team.
- AGILE CEREMONIES: Along with Scrum Master, leads various Agile activities and ceremonies including daily stand-ups, story review, release and sprint planning sessions, status meetings, sprint reviews, demos, and retrospectives.
- COMMUNICATION AND COLLABORATION: Works closely with and ensures regular communication with Program and Portfolio Managers, internal stakeholders, project sponsors, and other technology teams to ensure smooth on-boarding of work.
- What are we looking for?
- Five or more years' related work experience.
- Required knowledge:
- Professional experience as a Business Analyst, Business Team Manager, Project Manager, or Scrum Master
- Preferred Knowledge:
- Familiarity with continuous delivery and continuous integration
- Insurance industry and product knowledge
- Who would excel in this role?
- Strong team facilitation skills
Visa & Work Authorization
- Sponsorship is not available for this position.
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