Mortgage Agile Product Owner

Regions Bank•Hoover, AL

1d•Onsite

About The Position

At Regions, the Agile Product Owner represents business stakeholders to elicit, understand, analyze, document, refine and communicate business needs, so that business and/or technical delivery teams can build effective solutions. This position may be filled at a higher level depending on the candidate’s qualifications and relevant experience. Drive transformational initiatives to modernize platforms, enhance experiences, and advance digital capabilities. Partner across business and tech to optimize POS & LOS platforms (e.g., Empower), delivering prioritized backlogs, streamlined workflows, and integrations. Lead mortgage product ownership, applying Agile practices and expertise across the lending lifecycle to deliver value to associates.

Requirements

Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Business or a related field and five (5) years of relevant experience in process improvement, project delivery, business/requirements analysis or business operations/product line

Nice To Haves

SAFe Practitioner (SP), SAFe Agilist, or SAFe Product Owner/Manager certification
Ability to effectively prioritize and execute tasks under pressure
Excellent analytical and problem-solving skills
Excellent listening, interpersonal, written, and oral communication skills
Experience in Process Engineering methodologies and Change Management practices
Familiarity or working knowledge with multiple technical software delivery methodologies (i.e., Agile, Waterfall)
Proven ability to utilize data and analytics to formulate recommendations, solve business problems, and drive business improvements
Strong customer service orientation

Responsibilities

Partners with sponsors, stakeholders, and Information Technology to facilitate, define and document relevant business processes, gaining an understanding of the needs, measures, and risks and controls for the improvement area
Works with management and other stakeholders to understand and validate business strategy and vision and customer needs
Assists with project level plans related to schedule, scope and resources
Works independently on small to medium complexity efforts, or in support of a Senior or Lead on larger efforts
Identifies, assesses, tracks and mitigates issues and risks at multiple levels.
Participates in validation and testing of features prior to end user acceptance
Provides just-in-time story elaboration to designers, business analysts, developers, testers and others to develop, execute and release in alignment with program and/or product roadmaps
Serves as the content authority on an Agile team by maintaining a prioritized backlog of stories and providing continual business guidance for the execution team
Reviews, and when appropriate, accepts and prioritizes feedback and new requirements from stakeholders
Reviews and accepts or declines output of development to ensure specified acceptance criteria have been completed
Works with the business process owners to manage and track benefits, adoption and risks to operations