Senior Technology Product Owner Cross-border/Wires payments

Job Description:

At Bank of America, we are guided by a common purpose to help make financial lives better through the power of every connection. We do this by driving Responsible Growth and delivering for our clients, teammates, communities and shareholders every day.

Being a Great Place to Work and providing a culture of caring is core to how we drive Responsible Growth. We are intentional about fostering an inclusive workplace where every teammate has the opportunity to succeed, build a career and contribute to our shared success. This includes attracting and developing exceptional talent, recognizing and rewarding performance, and supporting our teammates’ physical, emotional, and financial wellness through affordable, competitive and flexible benefits.

We value the unique perspectives individuals bring from all backgrounds and career paths - whether shaped by military service, community college education, or a wide range of work and life experiences. These journeys foster resilience, leadership and innovation, strengthening our workforce and positively impact the communities we serve.

Bank of America is committed to an in-office culture that supports collaboration, engagement, and career development. Our approach includes clear in-office expectations, while providing an appropriate level of flexibility based on role-specific responsibilities and business needs.

At Bank of America, you can build a successful career with opportunities to learn, grow, and make an impact. Join us!

Job Description:
This job is responsible for maximizing the value for one or more products. Key responsibilities include working with stakeholders to understand their needs, and with product owners or specialists to ensure they are aligning on priorities. Job expectations include ensuring delivery of products that meet client expectations, including features, security, availability, resiliency, timelines and costs.

Responsibilities:

• Generates the vision and roadmap for the program based on customer requirements, industry trends, regulations, and the strategic direction for the business or technology domain
• Communicates the program vision and roadmap to stakeholders, product owners and the teams
• Oversees the budget(s) for one or more products by working closely with finance partners on both personnel and non-personnel expenses
• Provides input into defining business capabilities and aligning them to products or creating new products to support them
• Ensures product availability by partnering closely with demand and capacity teammates
• Develops business cases for new products and additional features for existing products
• Partners with the product owners and the teams to ensure that optimum value is obtained through technology and subject-matter expertise and understanding of the business and industry trends
• Effective product owner skills sets, Able to manage things independently.
• Strong business knowledge around payments, stakeholder management and requirement gathering.
• Act as the subject matter expert within the technical domain to support scope and requirement decisions.
• Collaborate with stakeholders to understand their needs, problems, and align them on priorities.
• Create and Review the tech vision and roadmap for the product to align with strategic direction for the business or technology domain.
• Collaborate with vendors for the project needs as applicable; it encompasses in other routines.
• Drive Business requirements sessions based on project timelines with Biz/Tech/Arch to review the requirements and XD.
• Approve Jira Deliverables/Epics for Business Readiness.
• Work with Architects applications owners for solution readiness
• Assist in change work estimation process

Required Qualifications

• 8-10  years’ experience as a Product Owner for agile teams
• 5+ years’ experience with JIRA
• High degree of organization, individual initiative, and personal accountability
• Highly motivated self-starter able to work independently with little supervision
• Excellent communication skills with the ability to engage, influence, and inspire partners and stakeholders to drive collaboration and alignment
• In-depth knowledge of Agile processes and principles

Desired Qualifications

• Knowledge of the Wire Transfer process and functionality of Wires.
• Understanding of payment systems – SWIFT, Chips, FED, ISO20022.
• Basic knowledge on Money transfer system, ACI MTS.
• Agile methodologies – Kanban / JIRA

Skills:

• Financial Management
• Influence
• Solution Delivery Process
• Stakeholder Management
• Technical Strategy Development
• Agile Practices
• Analytical Thinking
• Collaboration
• Result Orientation
• Risk Management
• Business Acumen
• Business Case Analysis
• Data Management
• Solution Design
• Vendor Management

Shift:

1st shift (United States of America)

Hours Per Week: 

40

Pay Transparency details

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Pay and benefits information

Pay range

$135,000.00 - $217,100.00 annualized salary, offers to be determined based on experience, education and skill set.

Discretionary incentive eligible

This role is eligible to participate in the annual discretionary plan. Employees are eligible for an annual discretionary award based on their overall individual performance results and behaviors, the performance and contributions of their line of business and/or group; and the overall success of the Company.

Benefits

This role is currently benefits eligible. We provide industry-leading benefits, access to paid time off, resources and support to our employees so they can make a genuine impact and contribute to the sustainable growth of our business and the communities we serve.