Mid Level Development Product Owner-Data

USAA•San Antonio, TX

19h•Hybrid

About The Position

As a Mid-Level Development Product Owner within Member Data, you will support and enable the data product's success, ensuring it evolves to meet changing business needs, remains high-quality, and is used effectively to drive better member experiences and operational efficiency. You are the advocate for the data product, ensuring it consistently delivers measurable value and aligns with the organization's strategic goals. Your role involves owning and prioritizing work, refining backlog items with clear acceptance criteria, and providing clear direction to the engineering team. Utilizing your understanding of Agile principles and modern data technologies, you will partner with stakeholders, subject matter experts, and the development team to foster innovation and drive the successful delivery of high-quality, valuable Data solutions in a timely manner. Serves as a direct representative of the business on an agile team. Attains, understands, and communicates business vision and needs in order to write and refine user stories, prioritize work, and provide guidance to technical teams. Uses critical thinking, problem solving, and Agile principles to partner with business owners, subject matter experts, and the development team to build effective solutions. Possesses a proficient knowledge and understanding of and ability to work within multiple delivery methodologies, including Agile and other approaches, to deliver business value.

Requirements

Bachelor’s degree; OR 4 years of related experience (in addition to the minimum years of experience required) may be substituted in lieu of degree.
4 years of experience in process improvement, project delivery, business/requirements analysis or directly related to supported business operations/product line.
Proficient knowledge of Microsoft Office products, applicable databases and project management tools.
Proficient knowledge with multiple technical software delivery methodologies (i.e., Agile, Waterfall).
Proficient Experience analyzing business requirements and ability to identify opportunities to streamline business processes in accordance with risk management framework and regulatory requirements.
Proficient understanding of Process Engineering methodologies and Change Management practices.
Experience working independently to gather business requirements, process flows and use cases to develop and deliver on business capabilities within the approved methodology, writing user stories, and following the development process through user story acceptance.
Analytical and problem-solving skills with demonstrated ability to identify, analyze issues and prioritize solutions/decisions.

Nice To Haves

Deep understanding of data concepts, development, and delivery, coupled with familiarity in data infrastructure (warehouses, lakes, APIs, pipelines) and related technologies (e.g., Snowflake, Java, Kafka).
Ability to align data initiatives with business objectives, comprehend customer needs, and translate strategy into actionable product roadmaps and backlogs
Capability to define and communicate a clear product vision and manage the end-to-end product development lifecycle, from user story creation to release validation.
Strong experience with Agile frameworks (like Scrum) and proficiency in using project management tools (like Jira) for backlog management.
Proven ability to effectively manage diverse stakeholders, gather feedback, influence decisions, and communicate complex information clearly to both technical and non-technical audiences.
Excellent analytical and problem-solving skills to address complex data challenges and ensure successful product delivery.
Ability to lead cross-functional teams, foster collaboration, and drive the team towards shared product goals.
Relevant experience within enterprise IT, data management, or shared services, particularly in sectors like financial services.

Responsibilities

Works with business and Subject Matter Experts to understand business strategy and vision and then writes, refines, accepts and prioritizes stories and/or features to support effective and compliant solutions while balancing investment and business value.
Owns and maintains a prioritized work backlog for one or more Agile teams.
Product backlog includes complete user stories with acceptance criteria so that they are consumable and testable by the Agile team or program.
Reviews and accepts output of I/T and/or business development to ensure specified acceptance criteria have been completed.
Serves as direct representative of the business with one or more delivery teams, representing the customers' perspective throughout the product delivery cycle.
Participates in a cross-functional team of user experience partners, designers, business analysts, developers, testers and others to develop, execute and release in alignment with program and/or product road maps.
Partners with sponsors, stakeholders, and IT to facilitate, the translation of business requirements from relevant business processes, gaining a developing understanding of the needs, measures, and risks & controls for the improvement area.
Partners with change partners and key stakeholders to assist with preparing the business for the change and provides tactics and metrics for benefits, adoption, and risk.
Leverages existing change management routines, as needed.
Executes robust test plan (user acceptance testing, production validation).
Demonstrates proficient knowledge in multiple business or system domains and capable of contributing to agile team at the project level.
Ensures risks associated with business activities are effectively identified, measured, monitored, and controlled in accordance with risk and compliance policies and procedures.