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Together we strive for everyone's opportunity towards a better financial future.
Together we stand up for and champion everyone's access to opportunity. We strive for better together. We advocate for everyone and not against anyone. Voya believes in being bold and committed to action. We are committed to a work environment where the differences that we are born with - and those we acquire throughout our lives - are understood, valued and intentionally pursued. We believe that our employees own our culture and have a responsibility to foster an environment where we all feel comfortable bringing our whole selves to work. Purposefully bringing our differences together to positively influence our culture, serve our clients and enrich our communities is essential to our vision to be America's Retirement Company®. Are you ready to join a great company with a winning culture? Start your Voyage - Apply Now Please Note: This position has been designated as a hybrid-office/home role. Details of your in-office schedule will be finalized with your manager. Profile Summary: Do you want to drive the transformation of the company into a technology and data driven business, influencing the future of millions of people?Do you like to work with talented individuals who will not only make it a fun place to work but will also help take you to the next level in your career?As the IT Product Owner in Voya Investment Management you would play a key role in defining the cutting-edge technology solutions to address the real business needs. Profile Description:- Act as a voice of the customers - understand the business needs and translate them into technical requirements.
- Work with the business partners to define the future products and roadmap.
- Understand and articulate the technology vision and strategy, ensure that technology solution is successfully aligned with the business goals and priorities.
- Build a strong rapport with the investment teams, operations personnel and information technology team members.
- Perform data-driven analysis and develop recommendations to guide decision making.
- Key member of the scrum team responsible for making sure that development processes align with the product roadmap.
- Manage the Product Backlog effectively to maximize the delivered value, including developing and clearly communicating sprint goals and priorities; creating and clearly communicating product backlog items; ensuring that the product backlog is transparent, visible and understood
- Define users stories based on customer requirements. Translate business needs into requirements for a technical audience, including creating user stories, synthesizing use cases, defining acceptance criteria, documenting features overview.
- Coordinate and assist in the testing of new products and features
- Bachelor's Degree or equivalent experience in science, finance, business administration or related field. Graduate degree is a plus
- 6+ years of professional experience with leadership in technology, business analysis or business.
- 3+ years of product ownership experience
- Excellent Knowledge of the Investment Management industry is a big plus
- Proven experience in a product owner role in an agile/scrum software development organization and understanding of the development lifecycle.
- Proven ability to manage multiple, concurrent work items with minimal supervision.
- Excellent decision making ability to manage a complex ever changing priority list and resolve conflicts to competing priorities
- Value oriented
- Excellent communication and influencing skills, both verbal and written. Capable of collaborating effectively functional communication to technical stakeholders, Technical communication to non-technical stakeholders)
- Strong analyst with a thorough understanding of how to interpret customer business needs and translate them into application and operational requirements.
- Strong problem solver. Ability to identify where focus is needed and bring clarity to business objectives, requirements and priorities
- Business and Functional requirement knowledge (i.e. elicitation of requirements, planning, documentation, analysis and alignment to standards)
- Ability to embrace, adapt and lead through change, fosters effective partnerships and drive effective collaboration with peers and vendor resources.
- Health, dental, vision and life insurance plans
- 401(k) Savings plan - with generous company matching contributions (up to 6%)
- Voya Retirement Plan - employer paid cash balance retirement plan (4%)
- Tuition reimbursement up to $5,250/year
- Paid time off - including 20 days paid time off, nine paid company holidays and a flexible Diversity Celebration Day.
- Paid volunteer time - 40 hours per calendar year
- Customer Focused: Passionate drive to delight our customers and offer unique solutions that deliver on their expectations.
- Critical Thinking: Thoughtful process of analyzing data and problem solving data to reach a well-reasoned solution.
- Team Mentality: Partnering effectively to drive our culture and execute on our common goals.
- Business Acumen: Appreciation and understanding of the financial services industry in order to make sound business decisions.
- Learning Agility: Openness to new ways of thinking and acquiring new skills to retain a competitive advantage.