Product Owner III - Data & Analytics

Job description

 

Discovery is at the core of everything we do – whether it’s a great value, incredible style, or building long-lasting partnerships with people around the world. That’s what makes TJX different. You can find it all across our brands: TJ Maxx, Marshalls, HomeGoods, Sierra, and Homesense. Every one of our brands has one thing in common: environments that are always changing. That’s just how we like it. Every day is an opportunity to discover something new about our business, our partnerships, and even about yourself. Come discover what different can mean for you.

Posting Notes: Marlborough  || MA 

 

The Agile Product Owner on the Data and Analytics team will have responsibility in the Corporate Portfolio. 

 

Major Duties & Responsibilities

 

·  Responsible for defining Stories and prioritizing the Team Backlog.
·  Analyses complex cross functional business processes and defines integrated user stories
·  May provide guidance to less experienced Product Owners.
·  Provides backlog management, iteration planning and elaboration of user stories.
·  Act as the liaison between the business and/or Agile Product Manager and the Scrum/Agile Team.
·  Takes direction from the Agile Product Manager on Feature prioritization and decomposes into user stories.
·  Refines the team backlog and works with stakeholders to prioritize user stories.
·  Supports 1-2 Agile teams.
·  Displays a strong understanding of targeted business operations and assists in the analysis of related business processes.
·  Acts as customer proxy and works with product management and other POs to prepare for the PI/TI Planning meeting (where relevant).
·  Works with Product Management as an extended team member on planning and backlog/Vision refinement.
·  Works directly with product management, business sponsors, key stakeholders and agile scrum teams to ensure the solution meets the product vision and business objectives.
·  Participates in Team Demos and Retrospectives.
·  With little or no guidance plays a key role in producing the System Demo for program and Value Stream holders.
·  With little or no guidance, drives iteration goals and iteration content via prioritized stories.
·  With little or no guidance, drives the story elaboration process for the Team, and ensures there is always a minimum of 2 sprints worth of ready stories in the backlog.
·  Ensures the team understands items in the team backlog to the level needed.
·  Ensures the team’s iteration goals are aligned to the PI/TI Objectives.
·  Attends and actively participates in Team Ceremonies: Iteration Planning, Daily Scrum, Iteration Review, Iteration Retrospective.
·  Collaborates with Product Manager and other Product Owners to define and coordinate feature development across other teams.
·  Displays an engineering mind-set and systems thinking while understanding the economic view.

 

Skills/Knowledge

 

·  Relevant undergraduate BA, BS degree in IT or Business or equivalent experience.
·  Certified Scrum Product Owner (CSPO) or SAFe Product Owner/Product Manager (POPM) preferred
·  Previous experience as a Product Owner, Business Analyst or similar knowledge of eliciting business requirements is required.
·  Established competency translating business needs into user stories that Teams can develop into finished deliverables.
·  Good communicator of ongoing risks, scope trade-offs, and timeline impacts to stakeholders to ensure alignment.
·  Extensive experience writing user stories and their acceptance criteria. Ability to determine when to split stories which are too big.
·  Ability to manage dependencies in and across sprints and releases.
·  Collaboration: Works effectively with others; establishing and maintaining good working relationships.
·  Strong knowledge of business analysis, project management, and product management concepts desired, along with an understanding of how enterprise software products are positioned and developed.
·  Extensive experience using ALM tools, Jira and Confluence.

 

Discover Different at TJX means opportunity, teamwork, and career growth. That’s why working here is so much more than a job. When you’re a part of our TJX family, you have the full support of a diverse, close-knit group of people that work together to deliver the best value and style in the business. Our inventory is always changing and our approach is continually evolving, which means every day is another chance to Discover Different.

 

We care about our culture, but we also prioritize the tangible stuff – competitive pay, great benefits, and a great group of people.

We consider all applicants for employment without regard to race, color, religion, gender, sexual orientation, national origin, age, disability, gender identity and expression, marital or military status. We also provide reasonable accommodations to qualified individuals with disabilities in accordance with the Americans with Disabilities Act and applicable state and local law.

 Posting Notes: Marlborough  || MA

Nearest Major Market: Boston
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