CW - Sr. Agile Product Owner

This is a Non-Employee Contingent Worker Role providing services for TIAA's family of companies and will be employed by TIAA's preferred 3rd Party Supplier. As a Non-Employee CW, perform a variety of moderately complex business planning, support, and project-related duties. Demonstrates an exceptional standard of quality and holds themselves accountable to achieving excellent results.

 

 

This role will sit onsite, likely in a hybrid capacity, at the location(s) listed in this posting.

 

 

The anticipated term of this engagement will be 7 months. This term could be extended based on company business needs.

 

 

CW-Lead Project Manager IT

 

The Program and Project Management job plans, organizes, and controls resources/processes to achieve project/program objectives within scope, time, quality, and budget constraints. Under minimal supervision, this job utilizes general knowledge of the project/business requirements to manage large projects for the organization.

 

 

Key Responsibilities and Duties

• Organizes project teams by assigning individual responsibilities, developing project schedules, and determining resource requirements necessary to ensure project is successful.
• Estimates the costs, resources, and time required to complete each phase of a project and allocates resources and tasks to ensure these targets are met.
• Implements an established project plan and monitors progress and performance against this plan.
• Monitors the status of projects including cost, timing, and staffing.
• Identifies and resolves obstacles to completing project on time and to budget.
• Conducts project meetings and prepares regular reports to communicate the status of the project within and beyond the project team.
• Coordinates the activities of outside contractors to ensure they are integrated into the project and that the organization receives satisfactory standards of service.

Educational Requirements

• Bachelor's Degree Required

Work Experience

• 5+ Years Required; 7+ Years Preferred

Physical Requirements

• Physical Requirements: Sedentary Work

 

Career Level

 

8IC

 

 

This role will be Hybrid Flex based in Charlotte Office.

 

 

Sr. Agile Product Owner (Open) will be leading execution as Business Product Owner (PO) leveraging the Scaled Agile Framework (SAFe) to support automation of Secure Act 2.0 provisions that impact the Money Out Withdrawals services.

 

 

As a member of the extended Product Management team, the PO is heavily involved in program backlog refinement and prep for Program Increment (PI) planning and also plays a significant role in the planning event itself. Before the planning event, the PO updates the team backlog and typically reviews and contributes to the program vision, Roadmap, and content presentations. During the event, the PO is involved with story definition, providing the clarifications necessary to assist the team with their story estimates and sequencing. The entire Agile team, which includes the PO, also work together to determine their team PI objectives for the upcoming PI.

 

 

Key Responsibilities:

 

 

Backlog Maintenance -

 

 

With input from System Architect/Engineering and other stakeholders, the PO has the primary responsibility for building, editing, and maintaining the team backlog. Consisting mostly of user stories, it also includes defects and enablers. Backlog items are prioritized based on user value, time, and other team dependencies determined in the PI planning event and refined during the PI.

 

 

Program Execution -

 

 

During each Program Increment (PI), the PO coordinates dependencies with other POs. This often occurs in weekly PO sync events. The PO also has an instrumental role in producing the System Demo for program and Value Stream stakeholders.

 

 

Other Competencies:

 

• Accepting User Stories
• Iteration Planning
• Story Elaboration

 

 

The ideal candidate will have knowledge of SAFe best practices and experience executing on large scale initiatives.

 

 

Start Date: 29-May-2023

 

 

End Date: 31-Dec-2023

 

 

Travel Required: No

 

 

Base Pay Range: $75.86/hr. - $88.08/hr.

 

 

Actual base salary may vary based upon, but not limited to, relevant experience, time in role, base salary of internal peers, prior performance, business sector, and geographic location.

 

 

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