Position Title: IT Product Owner
Location: Toronto, ON
Duration: 6 months
Story Behind the Need
Business group: Client Engineering – Microservices
Project: To support the project delivery of Bill 64 Marketing Opt Out, as well as other BAU work within the MicroServices Business Architecture team.
Hybrid Role of a Technical Product Owner / Business System Analyst / E2E Delivery Lead. Project scope is fairly small hence why combining roles into 1
Candidate Value Proposition:
– The successful candidate will have the opportunity to gain valuable experience at a top 5 Canadian bank with the strong opportunity for extension
– Forward-thinking and constantly changing environment
– Work in a collaborative team environment
– Good for someone who wants to try different things in their career as they will be supportive of different career avenues
– Opportunity to work in a unique type of role
Typical Day in Role:
• Hybrid responsibility of a Technical Product Owner / Business System Analyst and an E2E Delivery Lead
• Working on enhancement to applications – on front end, microapps – and a vendor application of book of record for marketing preferences, campaign related flows, customer targeting apps
• May be picking up some investment related project
• Coordinating between different teams – application teams, campaign systems, microservices
• Will need to do some status reporting to senior leadership, progress checking
• Need a dedicated resource who can take on both technical product owner/ BSA / delivery role / project manager responsibilities
• Collaborate with Senior Development Managers to align project timelines and forecast team capacity
o Prioritize backlogs items from various sources (Product, Engineering, Support); Ensure there is a balance between project delivery and non-project driven priorities
– Analyze and develop technical requirements based on solution documentation
– Ensure integrity of the business and technical requirements in the end-to-end customer journey
– Drive joint application design solutioning sessions with our architecture, development, and security architecture teams that inform high-level estimates for large and medium-sized incoming initiatives
– Facilitate requirements gathering and design sessions with multiple stakeholders to extract
requirements, and turn them into use cases, user stories, sequence diagrams, etc. to meet
development and stakeholder needs
– Create, refine and maintain the product backlog and associated deliverables; release backlog with forecasted delivery timelines
– Bridge the gap between business and IT, ensuring common understanding and IT/Business
alignment of both functional (for business needs) and non-functional requirements (such as
reporting, performance, interfaces, and constraints.)
– Help improve and drive our engineering practices by providing valuable inputs and suggestions as to what works well and what can be done better
Candidate Requirements/Must Have Skills:
1) 8+ years of relevant IT experience
2) 5+ years’ experience as IT Product Owner and/or Business System Analyst
2) Experience of coordinating multiple teams, fostering collaboration among the teams, and driving results
3) Experience with system integrations
4) Experience with front-end customer facing applications and/or mobile apps
Nice-To-Have Skills:
1) Experiences from an ecosystem /organization with similar complexity
2) Has both technical and non-technical backgrounds (e.g. Developer + BSA / Product Manager / Project Manager)
3) Campaign management/delivery experiences
4) Investment project experience
5) Experience with APIs
Soft Skills Required:
• Strong communication skills to be able to work with senior leadership
• Being able to communicate effectively and concisely.
• Has a willingness to learn attitude
Education:
Bachelors in technical field
Best VS. Average Candidate:
– Candidates from all industries will be considered as long as the experiences is in an ecosystem with similar complexity
– Banking experiences is NOT a must have, though experience from digital banking would be an asset
– If they have experience doing digital banking (even personally) will be good so they have a basic understanding
– Experience of working with senior leadership – not just a PMO
– Need to understand the technical aspects and hands on support the team
– Both technical and non-technical backgrounds (e.g. Developer + BSA / Product Manager / Project Manager) will be good to have
– Right attitude and mindset of wanting to learn new things
Additional Notes
– Manager has a strong preference on resumes that are less than 3 pages (not including the matrix). 3-4 pages – 4 max and ideally less than 3
Candidate Review & Selection
1 round – In person preferred at 333 King Street East (Wednesdays) – 1 hour – with HM and 1-2 team members
There is a case study presented in the interview – scenario based – to be solved in the interview
Potential 2nd if needed to decide between candidates
Hiring Manager’s availability to interview: ASAP
The pay range that the employer reasonably expects to pay for this position is between CA$85.00 and CA$100.00
Our voluntary benefits offering includes medical, dental, vision and retirement benefits.
Applications will be accepted on an ongoing basis.
Tundra Technical Solutions would like to thank you for the interest you have demonstrated in this opportunity. However, only candidates with the required skills will be contacted.
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