Product Owner

Job Description

Synechron is a leading digital consulting firm with 17,000+ collaborative employees in 55+ global offices across 17+ countries.

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From our solid financial services industry foundation, we have become a prominent global digital consulting firm for large financial services and technology firms.

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With a key focus on trust, and in partnership with our clients, we’re leading modernization and digital optimization journeys with expertise that spans Consulting, Data, Design, Cloud and Engineering across various industries.

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We can provide you with customized end-to-end solutions that drive business value

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Responsibilities:

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• Own, maintain, and prioritize the IAM product backlog.

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• Define Epics, Features, User Stories, and acceptance criteria.

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• Capture, analyze, and refine business and technical requirements.

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• Align business priorities with technical delivery in collaboration with Technical Leads, Architects, and engineering teams.

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• Support sprint planning, backlog refinement, release planning, demonstrations, and User Acceptance Testing.

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• Balance delivery priorities against technical debt, operational requirements, risk, and long-term product sustainability.

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• Coordinate dependencies across multiple delivery teams and technology workstreams.

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• Engage business stakeholders, technology partners, security teams, operations, and third-party suppliers.

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• Ensure regulatory, audit, risk, and compliance requirements are represented within the product backlog.

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• Monitor delivery progress, manage scope, and escalate risks, issues, and dependencies.

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• Support product roadmaps, release planning, delivery reporting, and stakeholder communications.

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• Drive measurable business outcomes and continuous improvement across IAM services.

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• Promote production readiness, operational supportability, knowledge sharing, and clear product documentation.

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Required Skills & Experience:

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• Proven experience as a Product Owner, Technical Product Owner, or Product Manager in an Agile delivery environment.

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• Strong experience in backlog management, prioritization, requirements engineering, and user story development.

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• Experience defining Epics, Features, User Stories, acceptance criteria, and test scenarios.

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• Strong stakeholder management, business analysis, communication, facilitation, and influencing skills.

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• Experience collaborating with Technical Leads, Architects, Engineering, Security, Operations, Risk, Compliance, and third-party suppliers.

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• Good understanding of Enterprise Identity and Access Management.

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• Knowledge of authentication, authorization, identity lifecycle management, Zero Trust Architecture, and access governance.

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• Familiarity with human and non-human identity, workload identity, agent identity, privileged access, secrets management, certificate lifecycle management, and API security.

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• Understanding of cloud-native security, event-driven identity integration, observability, monitoring, audit, SSDLC, DevSecOps, and automation.

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• Experience working in a regulated financial-services or banking environment.

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• Ability to work effectively across multiple countries, cultures, and time zones.

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Preferred Experience:

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• Experience working on IAM transformation, identity security, Zero Trust, or cybersecurity products.

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• Familiarity with platforms such as Microsoft Entra ID/Azure AD, SailPoint, CyberArk, Okta, Ping Identity, ForgeRock, Saviynt, or BeyondTrust.

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• Experience with Agile frameworks such as Scrum, SAFe, or Kanban.

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• Relevant Product Owner, Agile, cybersecurity, IAM, cloud, or technology risk certifications.

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• Experience coordinating complex enterprise products across multiple teams and technology suppliers.

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What you will bring:

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• A customer-focused and outcome-oriented product mindset.

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• The ability to translate complex IAM requirements into clear and actionable product priorities.

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• Strong judgment when balancing business value, delivery effort, technical debt, risk, security, and operational requirements.

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• The confidence to engage stakeholders at different technical and organizational levels.

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• A collaborative approach to working across architecture, engineering, security, operations, risk, compliance, and suppliers.

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Awards:

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2022: Voted in Top 25 Best Companies to Work for by the Business Intelligence Group

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2021: Winner of the Gold Globee Award for Employer Excellence in Career Growth, Development & Training

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2021: Synechron recognized with a Silver Level Award for COVID-19 Support Strategy

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2020: Winner of the Team of the Year Award at the US FinTech Awards

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2020: Synechron FinLabs won a Gold Stevie Award at the Asia-Pacific Stevie Awards

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We are proud to be an equal opportunity employer. Our Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion initiative, Same Difference, is committed to fostering an inclusive culture that promotes equality, diversity, and respect.

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We encourage applicants from diverse backgrounds, races, ethnicities, religions, ages, marital statuses, genders, sexual orientations, and abilities to apply.

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We offer flexible workplace arrangements, mentoring, internal mobility, and learning and development programs to support our global workforce. Empowerment and collaboration are at the core of how we operate

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