Technical Product Owner

**Req ID**:228247 We are currently seeking a **Technical Product Owner - Data Solutions Analyst - Remote Canada Position** to join our team in Toronto, Ontario (CA-ON), Canada (CA). **How You'll Help Us**: As a Product Owner, you hold a key role on our Scrum teams by representing the interests of the business. Through working with stakeholders, you ensure the team focuses on work that provides maximum value and fulfills real business needs. Additionally, through good communication with the development team you will help ensure transparency throughout the development process. **How We'll Help You**: This position is not just a job, but an opportunity to help our team achieve its highest potential. You will work with a group of highly talented people from around the world. Additionally, at NTT DATA we put an emphasis on developing our talent, helping you improve your consulting skills and achieve certifications that give you the necessary skills and credibility to serve our clients well. **Why the Role Is Important**: Your communication skills ensure the end product fulfills the vision of the stakeholders. Your ability to communicate with both business and technical stakeholders ensures success throughout the product lifecycle. Your organizational skills will keep our complex projects on time and within the scope ensuring a successful project. **Day to Day / Job Function** - Maintain ownership and accountability of the product vision and user experience throughout the entire development process. Develop roadmaps to support the vision. Support product alignment across Teams within the same ART or Portfolio. - Facilitate the discovery of business and customer requirements and document in the form of epics, stories, wireframes, diagrams, process flows, business rules, and acceptance criteria. - Build, organize and groom the backlog over the course of the project, ensuring maximum value is being delivered each sprint. - Collaborate with Team and business to produce "ready" user stories prior to sprint planning ceremonies. - Resolve problems, and stakeholder and Team questions; often serving as the single voice of the customer/business. - Communicate requirements to all stakeholders. Ensure developers and testers have a common understanding on how the user story will be built, tested, and implemented. - Review and accept stories as "Done" at the end of each Sprint. - Participate in all scrum ceremonies. Facilitate team level ceremonies and events. - Train the team on requirements processes and tools in use for the project. **Qualifications**: - Strong data analysis and data-driven decision-making skills. - Must have demonstrated background in data management technologies with a focus on business analysis - Deep familiarity with big data, storage, processing, management technology, and cloud-based implementation at scale - Proficient understanding of cloud data solutions with a preference to AWS - Project Background working with on-prem, cloud-based, and hybrid data infrastructures - 5+ years' experience as an Agile Business Analyst for software projects. - 2+ years' experience as Product Owner - 1+ years' experience as Product Owner for more than one Team simultaneously - Product Owner certification(s) - Able to travel as needed for project assignments when required. - Bachelor's degree or equivalent combination of education and work experience **Preferred skills** - Experience with Agile Management Tools (e.g. VersionOne, Jira, Jira Align, Rally) - SAFe certification(s) - Past experience as a Data Engineer or Architect would be a plus **Ideal Mindset**: - Listener. You can receive feedback from developers, understand it and take action on it. - Team Player. You are someone who wants to see everyone on the team succeed and is willing to go the extra mile to help a teammate in need. - Resourceful. As problems arise, you collaborate with the Team to develop options and then select the best path forward. LI-CDTS BConsult **About NTT DATA Services** **NTT DATA Services is an equal opportunity employer and considers all applicants without regarding to race, color, religion, citizenship, national origin, ancestry, age, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, genetic information, physical or mental disability, veteran or marital status, or any other characteristic protected by law. We are committed to creating a diverse and inclusive environment for all employees. If you need assistance or an accommodation due to a disability, please inform your recruiter so that we may connect you with the appropriate team.