Product Owner - Security Sanctions

$135,200 - $149,760/Yr

SolomonEdwards - Albany, NY

Full-time - Mid Level

Remote - Albany, NY

About the position

The Product Owner - Security Sanctions role at SolomonEdwards involves supporting a large commercial bank's Global Compliance initiatives. The position focuses on product analysis related to sanctions, risk measurement, and performance, requiring strong stakeholder management and Agile adoption skills. The consultant will define acceptance criteria, manage system readiness, and facilitate user training within the Sanctions team. This is a 12-month engagement that requires flexibility to work across different US time zones.

Responsibilities

• Act as Product Owner/Product Analyst in Global Compliance supporting Sanctions and driving product analysis around risk measurement and performance.
• Provide input to status reporting for compliance product side of project-oriented work efforts.
• Provide input to the business value stream roadmap for assigned product.
• Utilize detailed domain knowledge to determine FCRM system impacts and create Epics, detailed user stories and acceptance criteria.
• Identify and define current ‘As-Is' and ‘To-Be' business processes, conduct gap analysis, analyze requirements, and deliver various project artifacts.
• Analyze requirements and deliver various artifacts if needed: Visio screen mock-ups, Interface designs, Data Mapping and Configure business workflows in Oracle Financial Services Analytical Applications (OFSAA).
• Organize and participate in Product Increment Planning, sprint planning, story pointing, story sizing and stakeholder demos.
• Design and implement effective change management strategies and plans.
• Provide input to Business Architecture diagrams and workflows.
• Document and Execute user story acceptance criteria (UAT Test cases and Test scripts).

Requirements

• Bachelor's degree required.
• 5-7 years of experience as a Product Owner or Business Analyst is required.
• 5-7 years of GRC, Financial Crimes, BSA, or OFAC experience is required.
• Experience in SAFe framework is required.
• Prior experience in the capacity of PO/Product Analyst/BA driving capabilities definition, user story creation, acceptance criteria, and end of sprint demonstration to stakeholders.
• Hands-on experience in Jira and Confluence.
• Experience in drafting backlogs, PI and sprint planning, burn down and burn up metrics, KPIs.

Nice-to-haves

• Experience working with transaction screening systems, Core Banking Systems, Payment Systems, and Middleware.
• Technical knowledge of FCRM related Systems and Tools inclusive of OFSAA, Fircosoft Accuity, Bottomline, SAS AML alert engine, LexisNexis.
• Strong presentations and communication skills.

Benefits

• Health insurance
• Sick leave
• 401(k)