Product Owner - Payments/ Fintech Experience

Duration : 18+ months w2 contract

Location : Downtown Atlanta, GA - hybrid 3 days onsite & 2 days remote!

• The ideal candidate must have strong product management skills as well as ability to set and promote strategy across various facets of the business as well as technology organizations.
• Must be technical savvy with an ability to provide guidance and make proper strategic design decisions.
• Must have interpersonal skills with a proven track record of interacting with different groups and various levels of a large organization.
• This role advocates and advances modern, Agile solution delivery practices and evangelizes end-to-end design, engineering and organizational practices.
• Responsibilities include significant inputs into definition of payments product roadmap within Enterprise Payments and subsequently manage product backlog.

Work closely with senior business managers, stakeholders and Global functional heads to ensure we establish, implement, and adopt constantly evolving product development standards and processes.

Manage the expectations and demands of a multi-faceted business, and multiple stakeholders, whilst delivering improved product, BA, and design services across various Enterprise Payment functions.

Accountable for product backlog management prioritizing tech debt, regulatory, business enablement, and supporting audits.

• Will lead cross functional teams of technologists and business analysts whose main focus will be Deliverable
• Decomposition Design review.
• This leadership role will require close collaboration with functional leads and with business leads across the payments lifecycle from inception to clearing.
• Documents HLD (high level design) and functional requirements using Agile SAF requirement hierarchies (deliverable, epic, story)
• Ensures that execution delivery is aligned with product strategy
• Creates an inclusive and healthy working environment, and helps to resolve organizational impediments / blockers.
• Experience leading large scale program and project efforts
• Ability to plan and direct routines and reporting to drive accountability, transparency and collaboration.
• Ability to drive and promote strategy
• Ability to analyze decompose business requirements and propose various solutions
• Tech Management working in a Technical Environment
• To be able to work in team environment and co-ordinate with developers on the day to day deliverables using lean agile principles
• Liaise with sr stakeholders
• Strong problem-solving and communication skills and enjoys a collaborative environment.
• Flexible, self-starter, fast-learner willing and able to quickly learn new products, technologies and skills.
• Strong verbal and written communication skills
• Financial services experience with exposure to regulatory requirements within the Payments space
• 5+ years overall experience required, experience in organization / program / product management
• Knowledge and experience in Enterprise Payments (RTP, Wire Transfers, ACH) is desirable
• Experience managing real time processing implementations.
• Experience in delivering solutions using API, Kafka, Mainframe, and Database
• Experience with enhancing and maintaining critical software in a fast-pasted environment is a plus
• Knowledge of Operations processes supporting Enterprise Payment execution

About TEKsystems :

We're partners in transformation. We help clients activate ideas and solutions to take advantage of a new world of opportunity.

We are a team of 80,000 strong, working with over 6,000 clients, including 80% of the Fortune 500, across North America, Europe and Asia.

As an industry leader in Full-Stack Technology Services, Talent Services, and real-world application, we work with progressive leaders to drive change.

That's the power of true partnership. TEKsystems is an Allegis Group company.

The company is an equal opportunity employer and will consider all applications without regards to race, sex, age, color, religion, national origin, veteran status, disability, sexual orientation, gender identity, genetic information or any characteristic protected by law.