Required Skills: APIs, data flows, Agile,
Job Description
REQUIRED SKILLS
•Experience as a Technical Product Owner / Product Owner on a software delivery team (Agile/SAFe), not just a business analyst or project coordinator.
•Demonstrated ability to create clear, testable acceptance criteria and break down features into right-sized stories.
•Comfortable discussing APIs, data flows, and system integrations with engineers — enough technical depth to ask the right questions and make scope tradeoffs, not necessarily hands-on coding.
•Experience owning a backlog for a service with real production usage (not just a greenfield project).
•Strong written and verbal communication — this role will need to translate between engineering and business/compliance stakeholders
What You'll Be Doing
· Translate business and compliance requirements into well-defined features, stories, and testable acceptance criteria for payments/tender flows.
· Maintain backlog ordering, readiness, and transparency for the team(s) you support; make timely scope and priority calls to keep delivery moving.
· Develop a working understanding of the payment pipeline (tender selection, authorization/capture, card tokenization, partial/split capture for marketplace orders, government benefit tender handling) sufficient to make informed tradeoffs with engineering.
· Partner with engineers/architects on discovery and refinement without dictating implementation; flag ambiguous requirements, dependency gaps, and risk early.
· Validate delivered work against acceptance criteria and intended outcome, including coordination of functional/integration testing across tender types.
· Ownership in release readiness for payments changes — understand what's shipping, confirm monitoring/rollback thinking, and support go-live communication.
· Support production issue triage for payments incidents (customer/business impact, ownership, communication) in partnership with engineering.
· Work within the team's existing SAFe Agile ceremonies (planning, standups, backlog refinement, retro).