
Banking Product Owner lead - Vice President
- Bangalore, Karnataka
- Permanent
- Full-time
- Manage the Software Development Life Cycle (SDLC) from requirements gathering to testing and deployment, ensuring seamless integration and execution.
- Utilize the Agile framework to write business requirements in the form of user stories, enhancing data, reporting automation, and digital analytics toolsets.
- Collaborate with development teams to translate business needs into technical specifications, ensuring acceptance criteria are met.
- Drive compliance and adherence to product and Release Management standards and operating models.
- Identify and implement solutions for business process improvements, creating supporting documentation and enhancing end-user experience.
- Oversee the release plan, including scope, milestones, sourcing requirements, test strategy, execution, and stakeholder activities.
- Collaborate with lines of business to understand products, data capture methods, and strategic data sourcing into a cloud-based big data architecture.
- Partner with Implementation leads, Release managers, Project managers, and data SMEs to align data and system flows with Finance and Risk applications.
- Bachelor's degree with 10+ years of experience in Project Management or Product Ownership, with a focus on process re-engineering.
- Proven experience as a Product Owner with a strong understanding of agile principles and delivering complex programs.
- Strong analytical and problem-solving abilities, with the capacity to quickly assimilate business and technical knowledge.
- Basic knowledge of cloud technologies (e.g., AWS).
- Excellent written and verbal communication skills, with the ability to articulate complex concepts to diverse audiences.
- Strong organizational abilities to manage multiple work streams concurrently, maintaining sound judgment and a risk mindset.
- Solid understanding of financial and regulatory reporting processes.
- Energetic, adaptable, self-motivated, and effective under pressure.
- Experience in Finance, Risk, or Operations as a Product Lead.
- Familiarity with traditional credit products and liquidity and credit reporting data.
- Knowledge of JIRA, Excel, PowerPoint, SQL, Databricks, and data visualization tools (Tableau, Alteryx, Python).
- Highly responsible, detail-oriented, and able to work with tight deadlines.