Product Owner Senior Associate

DTCC • Jersey City, NJ

16d • Hybrid

About The Position

The Channel Product Owner is responsible for translating the product vision and roadmap into prioritized squad deliverables and release plans. This role manages product scope and the squad backlog in partnership with the Product Manager, Engineering Leads, Scrum Master, squad members, clients, and key stakeholders. The Product Owner will support one or more Client Interfaces channel capabilities, including FIX, SWIFT, MQ, Kafka, and SFTP. The successful candidate will combine strong product ownership and delivery experience with knowledge of messaging, streaming, and file-transfer technologies. The individual will represent client and stakeholder needs within the squad, maintain delivery readiness, and help ensure that channel capabilities are secure, resilient, scalable, and easier to adopt.

Requirements

• 5+ years of experience in product ownership, product management, business analysis, technology delivery, or a related function.
• Bachelor’s degree preferred or equivalent experience
• Ability to translate the channel strategy and roadmap into clear, prioritized, and delivery-ready squad work.
• Experience maintaining a healthy backlog aligned with client value, strategic priorities, risk, and technical health.
• Proven ability to improve sprint and release readiness through clear requirements and acceptance criteria.
• Capable of delivering channel capabilities that are secure, resilient, reusable, and easier to adopt.
• Skilled in improving coordination and transparency across Product Management, Technology, and supporting teams.
• Strong ability to develop clear user stories, requirements and acceptance criteria that align business needs with product and technology execution.
• Effective at identifying and resolving delivery risks, issues, and dependencies early.
• Skilled at sprint and release planning, effectively prioritizing work and coordinating delivery to support business and product obsectives.
• Adept at incorporating client and stakeholder feedback into product decisions.
• Ability to clearly communicate the value and impact of delivered capabilities.
• Supports adoption and continuous improvement across FIX, SWIFT, MQ, Kafka, and SFTP.
• Builds trusted relationships with the Product Manager, squad, clients, and key stakeholders.
• Proficiency with Hira or comparable work-management tools to manage priorities, track progress and support effective product delivery
• Skilled in developing and managing product roadmaps, defining and tracking product metrics, and providing delivery reporting to drive visibility, alignment, and informed decision-making.

Nice To Haves

• Financial services or financial-market-infrastructure experience.
• Experience supporting client-facing connectivity, messaging, streaming, or file-transfer services.
• Experience with enterprise platform modernization, automation, or cloud adoption.
• Familiarity with infrastructure-as-code, automated onboarding, observability, or operational resiliency.
• Product Owner, Agile, Scrum, or comparable certification.

Responsibilities

• Translate the Channel vision and roadmap into squad deliverables and release plans.
• Own and prioritize the product backlog based on client value, strategic alignment, delivery readiness, risk, and technical dependencies.
• Partner with the squad to create and refine backlog items with clear requirements, acceptance criteria, and business outcomes.
• Maintain sufficient backlog readiness to support effective sprint and release planning.
• Accept or reject completed work based on agreed acceptance criteria and the definition of done.
• Balance new capabilities, modernization, operational improvements, risk reduction, and technical health within the backlog.
• Support delivery and lifecycle management for one or more channel capabilities, including FIX, SWIFT, MQ, Kafka, and SFTP.
• Partner with Product Management and Technology to advance standardized, reusable channel services across business lines.
• Support initiatives that modernize legacy or hardware-bound capabilities through distributed, cloud, container, and automated delivery patterns.
• Help improve onboarding through standard workflows, reusable patterns, automation, and clearer service requirements.
• Evaluate implementation alternatives by considering client value, cost, schedule, risk, resiliency, and operational support.
• Bring the voice of clients and stakeholders into the squad and communicate squad considerations back to the broader organization.
• Seek feedback from clients, business lines, operations, engineering, and other partners, and incorporate relevant feedback into the backlog.
• Build effective relationships across Product Management, Technology, Architecture, Client Operations, Risk, Security, and supporting teams.
• Facilitate walkthroughs, demonstrations, and feedback sessions for new or enhanced capabilities.
• Communicate delivery progress, dependencies, risks, and decisions clearly to stakeholders.
• Articulate the business value of releases and support adoption of shared channel capabilities.
• Coordinate with engineering and delivery partners to identify and resolve cross-team risks, issues, and dependencies.
• Support operational readiness, including documentation, support requirements, controls, monitoring, and release planning.
• Incorporate resiliency, security, compliance, and other nonfunctional requirements into backlog prioritization and acceptance criteria.
• Ensure risk and control requirements are reflected in day-to-day product ownership activities and escalate concerns appropriately.
• Participate actively in squad and platform planning, delivery, review, and continuous-improvement events.

Benefits

• Competitive compensation, including base pay and annual incentive
• Comprehensive health and life insurance and well-being benefits, based on location
• Pension / Retirement benefits
• Paid Time Off and Personal/Family Care, and other leaves of absence when needed to support your physical, financial, and emotional well-being.

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Career Level: Senior
• Education Level: Associate degree