Surety Product Owner

Portsmouth, NH, United States (On-site)

Contract (7 months 29 days)

Published 6 hours ago

stakeholder management

JIRA & Confluence

Testing & Defect Resolution

Business Analysis

product backlog

Financial Transactions

Agile/SCRUM

• In this role you will work with Global Surety business stakeholders Product Leaders Business Analysts and Agile engineering teams to support delivery of business capabilities across the Surety platform
• You will help translate business needs into well defined features and user stories maintain and prioritize the product backlog participate in PI and sprint planning and support engineering and QA teams throughout delivery
• The ideal candidate will have working knowledge of the Surety domain strong business analysis and Product Owner skills and the ability to collaborate effectively with both business and technology teams

Key Responsibilities:

Surety Business Domain

Support:

• Work with Underwriting Operations Billing and Product stakeholders to understand business requirements and priorities
• working knowledge of the Surety bond lifecycle including new business changes riders renewals cancellations reinstatements and related transactions
• Support requirements across Contract and Commercial Surety products
• Collaborate with business SMEs on more complex Surety scenarios such as cosurety international guarantees and regional variations
• Document business rules process flows data requirements and acceptance criteria

Product Backlog Agile Delivery:

• Support backlog refinement and help translate business requirements into Features and User Stories
• Write clear user stories with appropriate acceptance criteria
• Participate in PI Planning sprint planning sprint reviews demos and backlog refinement
• Work closely with Product Leadership to prioritize backlog items based on business value dependencies and delivery needs
• Provide day to day functional clarification to developers and QA engineers
• Track dependencies and coordinate with other Product Owners and delivery teams when required

Systems Integration:

• Develop an understanding of the application ecosystem and how information flows between user interfaces APIs core Surety platforms billing and downstream systems
• Work with architects and engineers to clarify functional requirements for APIs and system integrations
• Support validation of rating premium calculations billing currency and other financial business rules
• Partner with QA and business users during integration testing bug resolution and UAT

Required Qualifications Experience:

Surety Insurance Domain:

• 2 years of experience in Surety Commercial Insurance Specialty Insurance or a related business domain
• Working knowledge of the Surety bond lifecycle and common bond types is preferred
• Exposure to areas such as rating billing cosurety guarantees or financial transactions is advantageous but not required to be expert level

Product Ownership Business Analysis:

• 2 years of experience as a Product Owner Business Analyst Product Analyst or similar role in an Agile environment
• Experience translating business requirements into Features User Stories and Acceptance Criteria
• Familiarity with Agile/Scrum exposure to SAFe or PI Planning is beneficial
• Experience with Jira and Confluence or similar Agile delivery tools

Technical Aptitude:

• General understanding of APIs data flows JSON and system integrations
• Ability to work effectively with developers QA engineers architects and business stakeholders
• Ability to learn business and technical concepts without being expected to act as the technical architect

Stakeholder Communication Skills:

• Strong verbal and written communication skills
• Ability to collaborate across Business Product Engineering and QA teams
• Comfortable asking questions clarifying requirements and facilitating discussions
• Ability to organize competing priorities and work effectively in a multiteam environment

The pay range that the employer in good faith reasonably expects to pay for this position is $31.85/hour - $49.76/hour. Our benefits include medical, dental, vision and retirement benefits. Applications will be accepted on an ongoing basis.

Tundra Technical Solutions is among North America’s leading providers of Staffing and Consulting Services. Our success and our clients’ success are built on a foundation of service excellence.

We are an equal opportunity employer, and we do not discriminate on the basis of race, religion, color, national origin, sex, sexual orientation, age, veteran status, disability, genetic information, or other applicable legally protected characteristic.

Qualified applicants with arrest or conviction records will be considered for employment in accordance with applicable law, including the Los Angeles County Fair Chance Ordinance for Employers and the California Fair Chance Act.

Unincorporated LA County workers: we reasonably believe that criminal history may have a direct, adverse and negative relationship with the following job duties, potentially resulting in the withdrawal of a conditional offer of employment: client provided property, including hardware (both of which may include data) entrusted to you from theft, loss or damage; return all portable client computer hardware in your possession (including the data contained therein) upon completion of the assignment, and; maintain the confidentiality of client proprietary, confidential, or non-public information.

In addition, job duties require access to secure and protected client information technology systems and related data security obligations.