SVC Product Owner

Company

Federal Reserve Bank of Kansas City

When you join the Federal Reserve—the nation's central bank—you’ll play a key role, collaborating with leading professionals to strengthen and protect our economic, financial and payments systems. We invest in contemporary and emerging technology each year to support the Federal Reserve and our economy, and we’re building a dynamic and diverse team for our future.

Product Owners (POs) are organizationally aligned with business lines supporting Product Management and are members of the technology solution delivery teams. Product owners focus on business-based product delivery associated with Federal Reserve System technology service products and solutions. Engaged from strategic business planning to tactical product delivery. Responsibilities involve implementation of product and service solutions through business engagement, knowledge of business needs and perspectives, active decision-making, and technology delivery knowledge. Relationship management will extend to stakeholders and customers throughout the Federal Reserve System, as well as internally with senior leadership, information technology teams, and other internal/external partners.

Key Activities

• Work with business sponsors/stakeholders and IT staff to implement and manage the product life cycle.

• Responsible for ownership and prioritization of the technology solution delivery teams’ backlog(s).

• Ensures that business requirements and technical documentation are aligned with the business inputs by writing and/or approving business rules, user stories, integration dependencies, etc.

• Plays a significant role in quality control as the only team member empowered to accept stories as done.

• Advocates for business needs by applying a deep understanding of business processes, goals, and problems.

• Ensures product vision is communicated to the technology delivery teams.

• Accountable for attesting that the delivered outputs align with business requirements.

Qualifications

• Relevant bachelor’s degree from an accredited college or university, or equivalent combination of directly related education and/or experience.

• Typically requires three years of experience in a combination of technology product management, or software development, and business line industry knowledge.

• Knowledge of applicable software development life cycle methodologies (e.g. Agile SCRUM).

• CSPO certification is preferred

• United States citizenship or lawful permanent resident alien status with at least three or more years of United States residency from the date of legal entry to the United States is required for this position.  

Additional Information

How We Work:

• On-site, full-time with 5 days per month remote work flexibility.

• Location(s): Kansas City, MO or Omaha, NE

Salary:

• $80,300-$104,000 / Product Owner

• $99,500-$128,700 / Senior Product Owner

• The listed salary is applicable to the Federal Reserve Bank of Kansas City. Final offers are determined by factors including the candidate’s qualifications, internal alignment considerations, district assignment, and geographic location.  

Citizenship Requirements: United States citizenship is required for this position.

Screening Requirements: This position has additional screening requirements due to the information accessed while performing the job. These additional screenings would be initiated at the time of offer acceptance and could take up to a couple of months to complete. You can begin work before the screening is completed; however, continued employment is contingent on acceptable screening results. The areas screened may include education/employment verification, criminal history, credit history, and reference checks.

Sponsorship: The Federal Reserve Bank of Kansas City will not sponsor a new applicant for employment authorization for this position. Applicants must be currently authorized to work in the United States without the need for visa sponsorship now or in the future.

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Full Time / Part Time

Full time

Regular / Temporary

Regular

Job Exempt (Yes / No)

Yes

Job Category

Project/Product Management Family Group

Work Shift

First (United States of America)

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