Sr. Product Owner

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Requirements:

• Bachelors in computer science, Information Systems, Business Administration, or comparable degree.
• 5-8+ years of product ownership and business analysis experience in a custom software development environment
• 5-8+ years of scrum master experience running small teams
• 8-12+ years in the commercial software space
• Excellent written communication skills - documentation, presentations, and flowcharts
• Excellent verbal communication skills - communicate w/business partners, internal audiences, technical analysts, developers, & other cross functional staff
• Working knowledge of reading and writing complex SQL queries for data manipulation
• Working knowledge of Visio and other graphical tools
• Expertise reading other people’s code, JSON, and XML
• Familiarity with the use of Artificial Intelligence in business applications
• Comfortable working without or little oversight to learn and build expertise in the Casualty domain.
• Knowledge and practical use of the following: Software development life cycle, including agile and waterfall
• Software and database fundamentals
• Existing and emerging technologies
• Tools to troubleshoot and resolve issues

Responsibilities:

• Manage the product development process, gather feature requests, schedule releases and coordinate work in a manner that ensures efficient on-time delivery of tasks and milestones.
• Translate high level business requirements and existing system processes into functional specifications, using user stories, UML diagrams, data dictionaries, etc., for the development team and manage changes to such specifications.
• Groom and prioritize backlog, develop user stories, and define acceptance criteria.
• Perform scrum master duties, including running standups, retrospectives, sprint planning, and management of the board in Azure DevOps.
• Assist in the business process with redesigning and documentation, as applicable, for new and existing technologies.
• Prepare instruction manuals, runbooks, and other training documentation, as needed.
• Prepare status reports by collecting, analyzing, and summarizing information.
• Perform system testing as needed for new products and production fixes.
• Coordinate User Acceptance Testing with customer stakeholders.
• Become a subject matter expert and be able to demonstrate product capabilities.
• Occasional troubleshooting using SQL and scanning code and understanding software patterns and architecture.