Capital Markets Technology SME Product Owner - Randstad USA

Job Description:

• Agile Scrum Master / Product Owner dedicated to Equity Capital Markets Technology initiatives and projects responsible for maximizing the value for Capital Markets Technology.
  
  
• Key responsibilities include defining the vision and roadmap for the deal origination, pipeline and execution technology, defining and prioritizing stories, and articulating this to both stakeholders and the development team.
  
  
• This role works closely with senior business partners (Capital Markets COOs across products and regions, Central COOs, Syndicate desk, head of ECM Syndicate, Execution Services and Equity Sales) to understand their needs and Technology Development Team in a scaled Agile model to ensure there is alignment.
  
  
• They are experienced in the role of a Product Manager/Owner, expert of the Capital Markets Deal Origination and Deal Pipeline, ECM space, and have a deep understanding of the business.

Responsibilities include:

• Gain an in-depth understanding of Debt or Equity Capital Markets applications, how they are used by the business and how applications fit into the overall deal workflow;
  
  
• Creates the vision and roadmap for the product to align with strategic direction for the business or technology domain.
  
  
• Communicates the product vision and roadmap to C-Suite stakeholders and business teams, and drives user adoption.
  
  
• Collaborates with stakeholders to understand their needs, problems, and aligns them on priorities.
  
  
• Creates and prioritizes features/epics in the program backlog; empowered to make decisions about trade-offs with emerging work versus planned work
  
  
• Creates and prioritizes work for 1-3 teams. Experienced with cross-functional teams.
  
  
• Creates and prioritizes stories in the product backlog.
  
  
• Refines stories with the team to ensure there are enough "ready" stories to load the next 1-2 sprints.
  
  
• Reviews and accepts stories and is empowered to make on-the-spot decisions on scope and requirements.
  
  
• Works in partnership with the team to ensure that optimum value is obtained through technology and through an advanced understanding of the business.
  
  
• Providing application training and demonstrations

Primary Skill:

Agile Scrum Master

Secondary Skill:

Agile tools (Jira)

Tertiary Skill:

Agile tools (Bitbucket)

Qualifications:

• BA or BS degree in information technology or computer science from an accredited 4 year university
  
  
• MBA or MS degree preferable.
  
  
• Knowledge and experience of Capital Markets Deal Origination and Deal Pipeline, Equity Capital Markets/ New Issue/ Primary Markets (New Issue Bonds, IPOs, Follow Ons) requires approximately 8-10 years BA experience.
  
  
• Excellent analytical, problem solving and strategic thinking ability; ability to troubleshoot production issues and get them resolved quickly by the appropriate support team;
  
  
• Experience working directly with the front office, ideally in a trading floor environment, is strongly preferred
  
  
• Experience with capital markets and the Deal Origination, Deal Pipeline, syndication process is a must.
  
  
• Highly organized, detail-oriented, ability to prioritize effectively and handle responsibilities for multiple projects / support issues concurrently
  
  
• Superior verbal and written communication skills; ability to get a point across quickly and concisely is important
  
  
• Agile skills to write quality User Stories, effectively prioritizes the backlog/work items, defines acceptance criteria and aligns business stakeholders on priorities. JIRA and Confluence.
  
  
• Experience working as part of a global team is a plus
  
  
• BI Tools experience is helpful; MS Office, Visio, MS Project, SharePoint, One Drive, MS Teams

Desired Skills:

• An individual of high integrity, energy and optimism who is self-directed and motivated.
  
  
• Front end development with Angular, Javascript , JSP, HTML/DHTML, Ajax
  
  
• An individual with excellent communication skill