Product Owner

Genesis10 is currently seeking a Product Owner for a contract position with a Global Financial Institution located in Jersey City, NJ. This is a 12+ month contract opportunity.

This role supports the Market Risk Technology team, defining the vision and roadmap for the product. Responsibilities include defining and prioritizing stories in the product backlog, collaborating with business and risk managers to translate requirements into technical specifications for developers, and supporting end-to-end IT change initiatives.

Responsibilities:

• Define the vision and roadmap for the product, defining and prioritizing stories in the product backlog, and articulating this to both stakeholders and the development team
• Collaborate with business & risk managers to define the business requirement & translate them for developers into detailed technical specifications for various workstreams across Regulatory and other Global Markets programs
• Support end-to-end IT change initiative, implement the changes to various risk processes, systems & metrics like generating VaR, Stressed Var, Risk sensitivities etc
• Assist with the analysis & testing of implementations
• Ensure project governance & control processes around project delivery
• Leverage strong foundation of market risk domain to manage delivery of market risk infra changes

Requirements:

• Knowledge of both business and technology domain related to Market Risk
• Strong understanding of market risk metrics and familiarity with regulatory frameworks like Basel III or FRTB
• Prior experience working on significant technical delivery within Global Markets Technology or Risk Technology at a large financial services company
• Ability to communicate effectively with technical, business and quantitative model partners and stakeholders
• Experience in synthesizing complex data into actionable analysis and presentations to non technical partners
• Hands-on with Excel & SQL
• Prior experience of agile and JIRA
• Strong critical thinking and decision making skills

Desired skills:

• Experience working with Python / Quartz is desirable

Pay range: $57.30 - $65.30 per hour

Only candidates available and ready to work directly as Genesis10 employees will be considered for this position.

If you have the described qualifications and are interested in this exciting opportunity, please apply!

Ranked a Top Staffing Firm in the U.S. by Staffing Industry Analysts for six consecutive years, Genesis10 puts thousands of consultants and employees to work across the United States every year in contract, contract-for-hire, and permanent placement roles. With more than 300 active clients, Genesis10 provides access to many of the Fortune 100 firms and a variety of mid-market organizations across the full spectrum of industry verticals.

For contract roles, Genesis10 offers the benefits listed below. If this is a perm-placement opportunity, our recruiter can talk you through the unique benefits offered for that particular client. Benefits of Working with Genesis10:

• Access to hundreds of clients, most who have been working with Genesis10 for 5-20+ years.
• The opportunity to have a career-home in Genesis10; many of our consultants have been working exclusively with Genesis10 for years.
• Access to an experienced, caring recruiting team (more than 7 years of experience, on average.)
• Behavioral Health Platform
• Medical, Dental, Vision
• Health Savings Account
• Voluntary Hospital Indemnity (Critical Illness & Accident)
• Voluntary Term Life Insurance
• 401K
• Sick Pay (for applicable states/municipalities)
• Commuter Benefits (Dallas, NYC, SF, and Illinois)

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Genesis10 is an Equal Opportunity Employer. Candidates will receive consideration without regard to their race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, disability, or status as a protected veteran.