Sr Product Owner - ACI Worldwide

If you've ever used an ATM, paid a bill through your phone, sent money to a friend or shopped online, chances are your transaction was safeguarded and processed using our software. Now it's your turn to serve the payment needs of organizations and people the world over.

Candidate can be remote but must live and work in the US in Eastern or Central Time Zone.

Job Summary:

Responsible for maximizing the value of the product and work of the Development team. Accountable for managing the Product Backlog, including adding/removing/grooming items and defining their priorities. Communicates vision of the Product Manager to their scrum team and is responsible for prioritizing the product backlog to accomplish that vision.

Participates in all Agile activities including backlog grooming, sprint planning and sprint review.

Work with the team to groom backlog items: define acceptance criteria, help the team split and estimate stories. Chooses the right balance between feature development and technical (NFR) work to keep the product competitive. Available as needed to assist the scrum team with product questions and is given authority to make decisions about product features.

Job Responsibilities:

• Communicating the product vision and sharing product expertise with the agile team/s.
• Setting priorities effectively, i.e. prioritizing the backlog, and ensuring that the team understands why the stories are in a specific order to maximize the team's output.
• Elaborating/publishing user story requirements in a timely fashion.
• Clarifying user story requirements/answering team questions quickly and concisely.
• Creating clear, testable acceptance criteria for stories,
• Participating in scrum team meetings (grooming, planning, review, etc.).
• Drive the agile team/s to break stories down into smaller stories that comfortably fit in a sprint and have business value.
• Actively work with agile team/s to identify ways to increase velocity,
• Engaging internal stakeholders and external contacts as needed to provide direction to the team independently of Product Manager/ Principal Product Owner.
• Drives maximizing the business value and quality output of the agile teams.
• Provides guidance to other Product Owners while providing training/ acting as a mentor to junior Product Owners.
• Takes on some product management activities as needed.
• Perform other duties as assigned.
• Understand and adhere to all corporate policies to include but not limited to the ACI Code of Business Conduct and Ethics.
• Evaluate DXC PCRs
• Assist with estimating.
• Participate in solution design.
• Assist with DXC escalation.
• Production support and pager support.
• Build BASE24 environments when required.
• Software orders for DXC
• Advocate for the customer with Product management and other areas within ACI
• Monitor DXC cases and assist wherever possible.
• Assist in implementation planning and support the implementation whenever required.
• Assist and participate in Interac, PCI, 3PCRM and VISA audits.

Knowledge, Skills and Experience required for the job:

• Bachelor's degree in in related field or equivalent experience in software development tasks.
• 8 plus years of related work experience.

Preferred Knowledge, Skills and Experience needed for the job:

• Excellent leadership and organizational skills,
• Strong ability to understand technical issues at a high level.
• Demonstrates strong accountability.
• Strong verbal and written communication skills.
• Strong analytical and problem-solving skills.
• Ability to operate as a change agent, influencing and driving action organizationally.

Benefits: In return for your expertise, we offer growth, opportunity, and a competitive compensation and benefits package in a casual work environment.

Are you ready to help us transform the world of electronic payments? To learn more about ACI Worldwide, visit our web site at www.aciworldwide.com Job ID (Requisition #12901)

ACI Worldwide is an AA/EEO employer in the United States, which includes providing equal opportunity for protected veterans and individuals with disabilities, and an EEO employer globally.

#LI-LF1ACI Worldwide is a global leader in mission-critical, real-time payments software . Our proven, secure and scalable software solutions enable leading corporations, fintechs and financial disruptors to process and manage digital payments , power omni-commerce payments , present and process bill payments , and manage fraud and risk . We combine our global footprint with a local presence to drive the real-time digital transformation of payments and commerce.