Product Owner

NIIT Technologies is a leading services solutions organization, servicing customers in North America, Europe, Asia and Australia. It offers services in Application Development and Maintenance, Enterprise Solutions, Managed Services including Digital and Business Process Outsourcing to clients in the Financial Services, Travel Transportation, Insurance and Media industry. Our domain knowledge, new approaches to customer experience management, robust outsourcing capabilities, and global delivery model, have made us a preferred IT partner to over 220 clients. With over 30 years of experience in the IT world, today we are over 9000 professionals across 16 countries. In addition to being listed as “ComputerWorld’s 100 Best Places to Work in IT”; a complete list of our awards are at: http://www.niit-tech.com/about-us/awards-and-accolades. We call ourselves NIITians and like anyone of us, we’d like every future employee to have fun and do great things at work. To learn more about us, please visit: www.niit-tech.com
We invite you to apply for the below job and if you are right candidate, you will be surprised how quickly we will move from application to offer.
A Product Owner is:
· Responsible for establishing the high-level vision and goals necessary to optimize the return-on-investment for the effort—in other words, what the project will create, for whom, and why.
· Responsible for obtaining the budget necessary for the work of the team (aka development work) to occur.
· Responsible for gathering input about what features / functionality should be produced, and understanding the relative
value of that functionality.
· Responsible for creating a list of required features / functionality (the Product Backlog), prioritized based on value, size, risk, and other relevant considerations.
· Responsible for providing the team with as much context and detail as the team requires to deliver the features /functionality they commit to complete during the Sprint.
· Required to permit the team to make a reasonable commitment for each Sprint.
· Responsible for inspecting the features /functionality produced at the end of each Sprint, and identifying ways to improve its business value.
· Responsible for evolving the Product Backlog from Sprint to Sprint, in response to insights about opportunities, constraints, and risks. CSPO Learning Objectives 3
· Responsible for deciding when to release software to the market / customer/s.
· Responsible to maintain clear release criteria (target release dates and / or target release scope) and Release Burndown Chart, and share this with the team and stakeholders.
· Responsible for creating the release documents.
· Responsible for optimizing the return-on-investment of the product, and for stakeholder management.
· Engaged with the team throughout the Sprint, providing input and feedback as required by the team, but should take
care not to disrupt or interfere with the team.

Required Skills
· 7+ years of experience in managing product lines in the investment management or banking software development domain
· Should be well versed with various tools and techniques required for product ownership like backlog grooming, user story
creation and maintenance, use case and acceptance criteria development etc.
· Knowledge of tools like Visio, rational rose etc., will be a plus
· CSPO certification will be a plus

Thank you for considering NIIT Technologies as your future employer.