Product Owner Senior Associate

Are you ready to make an impact at DTCC?

Do you want to work on innovative projects, collaborate with a dynamic and supportive team, and receive investment in your professional development? At DTCC, we are at the forefront of innovation in the financial markets. We are committed to helping our employees grow and succeed. We believe that you have the skills and drive to make a real impact. We foster a thriving internal community and are committed to creating a workplace that looks like the world that we serve.

Pay and Benefits: 

• Competitive compensation, including base pay and annual incentive
• Comprehensive health and life insurance and well-being benefits, based on location
• Pension / Retirement benefits
• Paid Time Off and Personal/Family Care, and other leaves of absence when needed to support your physical, financial, and emotional well-being.
• DTCC offers a flexible/hybrid model of 3 days onsite and 2 days remote (onsite Tuesdays, Wednesdays and a third day unique to each team or employee). 

The Impact you will have in this role:

The Product Owner is responsible for translating the product vision into squad results to achieve the product strategy, aligned with maxim improvising to the client. This is done through managing scope and product backlog in collaboration with multiple squads clients (internal/external), and key collaborators.

The position necessitates robust business analysis and interpersonal skills within an agile environment to draft and present business requirements to both internal and external collaborators for approval and alignment. You demonstrate proficiency in conducting business impact assessments, comparing current-state and various future-state business models. This role involves leading multiple internal collaborator meetings collaborating the Global Trade Repository (GTR) in various industry-led forums on projects and new initiatives. Additionally, the role requires facilitating and supporting external working groups composed of major industry participants to provide mentorship on requirements and design options.

Your Primary Responsibilities: 

• Supports the delivery team (Scrum Master, Product Owner, Development and QA Analysts) to create solutions that meet business needs in an Agile setting (i.e., scrum ceremonies, collocated team, etc.)
• Decomposes requirements into stories, uncover associated workflows, data and business rules as well as define acceptance criteria based on real world scenarios.
• Reviews improvement requests and bugs to determine solutions that do not negatively impact other product features.
• Analyzes regulations and leads design walkthroughs, demos and functionality feedback sessions with internal and external collaborators.
• Determines and produces just-enough documentation for the functionality being delivered in iterations, but also compiles a running specification that serves as a functional specification for the final deliverable.
• Partners with internal collaborators such as Integration and Documentation on operational readiness activities by sharing subject matter expertise on features and functions and uncovering operational requirements.
• Aligns risk and control processes into day to day responsibilities to supervise and mitigate risk; escalates appropriately.
• Effectively translates the vision into specific business objectives, thinks of different ways to do things and through all angles to provide insights and develop strategies that guide future decisions. 
• Understands DTCC’s products and service offerings, as well as key collaborators, and demonstrates the ability to form and cultivate internal networks that will help navigate getting things done. 
• Embraces and adapts well to changing circumstances, identifies areas of needed change and employs many methods to drive those activities to meet organizational goals. 

Qualifications:

• 5 - 7 years of related experience
• Bachelor's degree preferred or equivalent experience

Talents Needed for Success:

• Experience in Agile/scrum methodology, including defining a minimal viable product, and exposure to other software development methodologies
• Experience within client onboarding functions and User Inferface design a plus
• Experience working in Jira,
• Knowledge in Salesforce, UI/UX Design (Balsamiq), SQL (Toad) will be a plus
• Understands business financials and has the ability to work with complex data and information, and adopts practical and workable approaches.
• Builds teams by quickly establishing relationships and drives a team identity and shared purpose based on diversity of thought, skills and personalities.

We are an equal opportunity employer and value diversity at our company. We do not discriminate on the basis of race, religion, color, national origin, sex, gender, gender expression, sexual orientation, age, marital status, veteran status, or disability status. We will ensure that individuals with disabilities are provided reasonable accommodation to participate in the job application or interview process, to perform essential job functions, and to receive other benefits and privileges of employment. Please contact us to request accommodation.