Product Owner (Fairfield County)

Description

A global financial institution is seeking a Product Owner to guide large-scale application transformation efforts. This role drives modernization, simplification, and rationalization across a complex portfolio of legacy systems, ensuring technology capabilities align with business priorities and future-state architecture.

Youll shape the roadmap, manage delivery across multiple agile teams, and partner with senior stakeholders to execute strategic initiatives that enhance agility, cost efficiency, and long-term maintainability.

What Youll Tackle

Define and prioritize transformation backlogs aligned to enterprise objectives.

Lead roadmap execution for application modernization and simplification.

Coordinate delivery across engineering, architecture, and operations teams.

Facilitate sprint planning, retrospectives, and PI sessions under SAFe.

Manage risks, dependencies, and cross-program integration points.

Provide transparent updates to senior business and technology leaders.

Champion best practices for agile delivery and documentation.

Support cultural and process shifts toward modern application management.

What You Bring

710 years in product ownership or delivery leadership within technology organizations.

Proven success leading transformation or modernization programs.

Strong grasp of Agile and SAFe frameworks, Jira, and Confluence.

Excellent stakeholder management and executive communication.

Strategic mindset with hands-on execution ability.

Skilled in risk, dependency, and release coordination.

Track record of delivering measurable impact in complex environments.

Financial services or regulated industry experience.

Cloud or application migration exposure.

Product cost optimization or portfolio rationalization background.