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SOFT's client located in New York, NY ( Hybrid ) is looking for a IT Product Owner - Cloud / App Dev for a long term contract assignment.

Qualifications:  
• 2+ years relevant experience as a product owner.  
• 5+ years of experience within an agile team environment.  
• Ability to manage large programs of work with minimal support.  
• Must exhibit strong interpersonal skills and a collaborative style and can share technical ideas and approaches with others.  
• IT Cloud Infrastructure, software development process and technical software experience is preferred.  
• Certified Product Owner preferred.  
• Experience with Data Products or Data Governance is a plus.  
• Experience using Jira is a plus.  
Responsibilities:  
Data and Statistics Product Owner (RSG) 

Summary  
Creates the roadmap for product(s) and defines its vision and priorities. Understands business and builds close relationships within it to ensure that the development squad's delivery plan is aligned with business needs and the Group's strategic roadmap. Works closely within squad(s) to ensure business value is achieved and user feedback is translated into new developments, when necessary.  
  
What you will do  
• Work with business and IT partners to develop inspiring product visions, derived from business needs into product roadmaps that are in alignment with business and IT strategies.  
• Exhibits expertise across the Statistics products’ features and able to partner seamlessly across the squads (including those in support of Treasury)  
• Interpret requirements, write user stories and work with technical teams, developers, business analysts, UX and internal constituents to determine the details  
• Be the voice of the business customer, identifying gaps and opportunities for new capabilities, manages backlog, and prioritizes work within sprints.  
• Partner with Scrum master and technical teams to participate in agile ceremonies (sprint demos, retrospectives, sprint planning).  
• Collaborates with UAT coordinator on execution of user acceptance testing approach and scripts; works with the squad to plan releases.  
• Works with technology teams to respond to changing priorities and delivery requirements across multiple products or product areas.  
• Exhibits expertise within products’ feature areas and coordinates with interdependent teams to provide product support.  
• Defines, monitors, and communicates product-specific operational KPIs once a product enters production; sets and manages to targets by influencing technology support services and best practices.  
• Promotes agile behaviors within business areas to accelerate the transition to the new operating model.  
• Support overall activities and responsibilities of Product Management team.