Senior Technical Product Owner, Azure

Company

Federal Reserve Bank of RichmondWhen you join the Federal Reserve the nation's central bank you’ll play a key role, collaborating with leading tech professionals to strengthen and protect our economic, financial and payments systems.

We invest in contemporary and emerging technology each year to support the Federal Reserve and our economy, and we’re building a dynamic and diverse team for our future.

Bring your passion and expertise, and we’ll provide the opportunities that will challenge you and propel your growth along with a wide range of benefits and perks that support your health, wealth, and life.

In addition to competitive compensation, we offer a comprehensive benefits package that includes tuition assistance, generous paid time off, top-notch health care benefits, child and family care leave, professional development opportunities, a 401(k) match, pension, and more.

All brought together in a flexible work environment where you can truly find balance.

About the Opportunity :

National IT has an immediate opening for a Senior Technical Product Owner within the Cloud Foundations Team within the Cloud Solutions and Services Organization.

You will initially focus on the Cloud Foundations mission to build our Azure Platform to allow our customers application portfolio migration from on-prem to the cloud.

The Senior Technical Product Owner is a member of the team responsible for defining and prioritizing a team’s backlog while incorporating and translating the customer requirements into stories and features.

The Product Owner has an important role in driving value realization and directs members of the team in completing the worked defined in given Program Increment (PI) and within the sprints for a given PI.

You will work with partners, leaders, product managers, and technical teams to understand needs to ensure full understanding of product scope, goals, and requirements.

This is an individual contributor role with hybrid on-site expectations in one of our district bank locations and will report to the Product Manager for the Cloud Foundations Team.

What You Will Do :

Primary liaison between partners and teams to ensure full understanding of product scope, goals, requirements, and dependencies specific to Azure workloads and approved use cases.

Establish / refine Cloud Foundations workflow processes for building, and enhancing our platforms to ensure portfolio migration planning, architecture review and production readiness.

Articulates the customer requirements to product teams, outlining and prioritizing work based on value; prioritize product and services backlog based on overall strategy and goals and works with the Scrum Master and the Release Train Engineer to lead sprint and release plans.

Develop relationships with partners by assessing the technical, business and product requirements.

Oversee all stages of development, including planning, refining, reviewing and PI and sprint planning.

In partnership with Architecture, develop a cohesive Azure strategy to specify Azure specific use cases for Cloud Foundations to allow the customer migration from on-prem to the cloud.

Develop an Azure roadmap for iterative development and usage.

In partnership with Architecture and AWS specific POs, partner to develop a plans and opportunities for knowledge share and uplift across CSP platform teams.

In partnership with Architecture, leadership and AWS specific POs drive and establish cohesive cross-CSP processes that allow a unified customer experience and ensure adherence to all policy and compliance requirements.

Key participant in retrospectives to improve team processes.

Qualifications :

Bachelor's Degree or equivalent experience

Minimum 5 years of Product Owner or Product Manager or Scrum Master or Program Manager experience

Product Owner certification

Azure Cloud Fundamentals certification

Familiar with, and able to describe, the larger Microsoft Cloud offering, and Azure’s place within it.

Experience using common Azure related tools such as PowerShell, Azure Resource Manager, Visual Studio Code.

Knowledge of Azure Resource concepts

Knowledge of Entra ID tenants and capabilities

Experience with the SAFe Agile methodology.

Experience working with Agile software tools such as Jira, Rally.

Experience working with geographically dispersed teams.

Matrixed team management experience.

Discover the Reason Why So Many People Love It Here!

When you join Federal Reserve’s National IT organization, not only will you find a challenging and purposeful career, you’ll also have access to a wide range of benefits and perks that support your health and wealth, including :

Great medical benefits

Pension and 401(k) with employer match

Paid time off

Tuition reimbursement

Employee resource networks

Paid volunteer leave

Flexible work options

Onsite amenities that make working here fun!

LI-Hybrid

Other Requirements and Considerations :

Candidates should review the Bank’s Employee Code of Conduct to ensure compliance with conflict-of-interest rules and personal investment restrictions.

If you need assistance or an accommodation due to a disability, please notify rg.

Employees who work at and / or visit another Federal Reserve entity or outside business as part of their job duties are required to comply with any onsite safety and health protocols of those organizations (including, but not limited to, requirements to vaccinate or test, mask, social distance, etc.).

Sponsorship is not available for this role. The selected candidate will be subject to a government security investigation and must meet eligibility requirements for access to classified information.

Eligibility for this specific position requires U.S. Citizenship or three or more years of Permanent Resident (Green Card) status.

The national hiring range for the Senior Product Owner role is $101,3000-$139,260 and Advanced Product Owner role is 118,500-$162,910 annually.

For candidates in certain markets (Boston, MA; Chicago, IL; Los Angeles, CA; New York City Metro Area, Philadelphia, PA;

San Francisco, CA; Seattle, WA), the listed hiring and salary ranges may be adjusted based on your geographic location.

Salary offered will be based on the job responsibilities and the individual’s knowledge, skills, and experience as defined in the job qualifications.

Full Time / Part Time

Full time

Regular / Temporary

Regular

Job Exempt (Yes / No)

Job Category

Other

Work Shift

First (United States of America)