Product Owner

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Job description

Position Type :Full timeType Of Hire :Experienced (relevant combo of work and education)Travel Percentage :10 - 15%Are you curious, motivated, and forward-thinking? At FIS you'll have the opportunity to work on some of the most challenging and relevant issues in financial services and technology. Our talented people empower us, and we believe in being part of a team that is open, collaborative, entrepreneurial, passionate and above all fun.About the teamWe are a team of Dynamic, Inquisitive and Proactive Product Owners and Product Managers. We are experts in Global Acquiring solutions. We are located in several offices worldwide with most of the Product Owners based in Cambridge. We follow Agile (SAFe) principals.What you will be doingAs a Product Owner within the Acquiring Value Stream, you will be an internal and external champion driving the creation of products that provide top and bottom line benefits to many of the largest eCommerce merchants in the world.You will be working within the Acquiring Product Management team, which is focused on building and maintaining best-in-class products, capabilities and services to support our global eCommerce business customers' needs.Our vision is to provide the most relevant, reliable and straight-forward global payments experience, helping customers access more consumers, driving profitable growth. You will be central to this vision.The Product Owner (PO) is a member of the Agile team who serves as the customer proxy responsible for working with Product Managers and other stakeholders, including other Product Owners, to define and prioritise user stories in the team backlog. The PO has a significant role in quality control and is responsible for accepting stories as done while ensuring conceptual and technical integrity of the Features are maintained.Provide the internal voice of the customer for the team and work with Product Managers, Customers (as well as other Product Owners) to constantly understand and communicate their needs and participate in the validation of the delivered FeaturesPO is heavily involved with Product Management in program backlog refinement and prep for PI planningBy partnering with System Architect/Engineering and other stakeholders, the PO has the primary responsibility for building, editing, and maintaining the team backlog.Reviews and reprioritizes the backlog as part of the prep work for Iteration Planning, including coordination of dependencies with other Product Owners.Collaborate with their team to elaborate details of user stories with acceptance criteria and acceptance tests.Validation that user stories meet acceptance criteria and have the appropriate, persistent acceptance tests. The PO also assures a level of quality, focusing primarily on fitness for use.Collaborate with System Architect/Engineering to assist with decision-making and sequencing of the critical non-functional requirements (NFRs) as well as technical debt user stories.Serve an essential role in the team demo, reviewing and accepting stories. Additionally, POs participate in the Iteration Retrospective, where the teams gather to improve their processes and are active in the Agile Release Train's (ART's) Inspect and Adapt (I&A) workshop.Coordinates dependencies with other Product Owners through participation in the weekly PO Sync meetingsCoach Agile team in Lean-Agile practices and mindsetsWhat you bring:Intellectual curiosity and genuine interest in the ever-changing dynamics of markets and a complex, global industryA strong team player, comfortable collaborating with and coordinating the efforts of cross-functional colleaguesHighly self-motivated with a strong will to win, ability to take ownership and desire to drive for optimal business resultsData driven approach to problem solvingA self-starter with a can-do attitude who can operate with minimal direct/daily supervisionAbility to adapt to and embrace frequent change with a positive attitudeAdded bonus if you have:Knowledge of FinTech and Payment industryLeadership skillsproblem-solving skillsThe confidence to challenge others in a constructive manner#LI-AR1Privacy StatementFIS is committed to protecting the privacy and security of all personal information that we process in order to provide services to our clients. For specific information on how FIS protects personal information online, please see the Online Privacy Notice.Sourcing ModelRecruitment at FIS works primarily on a direct sourcing model; a relatively small portion of our hiring is through recruitment agencies. FIS does not accept resumes from recruitment agencies which are not on the preferred supplier list and is not responsible for any related fees for resumes submitted to job postings, our employees, or any other part of our company.#pridepass