Technology Product Owner

Job Description
As a Technology Product Owner, you will help to define the vision of the products we create;
drive the planning, prioritisation and execution of backlogs and deliver new features that support our strategic goals. You will do this based on understanding the relevant end to end business processes, underlying business capabilities and related journey maps and strategies that elevate both student and colleague experiences.
Responsible for translating business needs into functional and technical requirements with clear and concise acceptance criteria by understanding the relevant business processes within the assigned portfolio, journey maps of the impacted personas and also understanding the technology capability and functionality that support the relevant business process
Participates in prioritization and requirements refinement sessions leading to definition of features and stories for technical breakdown and planning, ensuring all requirements are well understood by the delivery teams
Assures consistent quality of production ready deliverables before promoting to business owners or end users by conducting or coordinating Quality Assurance Testing.
Maintain continuous relationships with colleagues across all business functions that are impacted by the assigned portfolio and underlying business capabilities and technology solutions – use these relationships to ensure that timely inputs are provided to support committed deliverables and timelines.
Coordinates frequently with relevant delivery teams to ensure successful completion of competing priorities and deadlines.
Engages with vendors to bridge potential knowledge gaps and provide ancillary support to the Business Owners and SMEs as needed.
Provide ongoing business process, business capability and product knowledge to relevant delivery teams and add to the existing knowledge base to avoid single point of failure knowledge gaps.
Responsible for progressing all deliverables to “done” status and meet acceptance criteria by coordinating production deployment, post-implementation analysis/feedback, and ongoing support plan.
Support IT management and business sponsors for considerations involving selecting vendors and providing information on best practices, innovations, and trends for products to ensure that organization’s products meet competitive market demands.
Support definition of objectives, definition of success metrics and articulation of business outcomes for assigned initiatives and product enhancements, ensuring KPIs and targets are tracked, reported on and support identifying impediments that are preventing from the realization of defined benefits
Use approved tools and methodologies to manage workloads, communicate progress, ensure timely completion of deliverables and team adherence to maintaining accurately and consistently all delivery related metrics for assigned initiatives.
Performs other duties as assigned
Complies with all policies and standards