About the Role:
As a Product Owner for the Disability Migrations ART within the U.S. Group Benefits team, you will play a crucial role in migrating customers' reporting solution(s) from legacy systems to the new Catalyst platform. You will work closely with the Product Manager and other stakeholders to ensure successful migration and enhanced customer experience.
Key Responsibilities:
- Develop solutions to migrate customer’s reporting solution from legacy systems to the future state platform’s reporting solution.
- Assist the Product Manager in writing and refining features.
- Oversee team priorities and ensure alignment with business goals.
- Lead backlog refinement and create features to define future enhancements.
- Write and prioritize user stories for one of the reporting solution migration teams.
- Coordinate support across business, IT, operational readiness teams, and other partners.
- Collaborate closely with teams that own legacy systems, teams that own Catalyst systems, Operations, and customer facing teams. This includes working with Business Systems Analysts, Testers, Developers and Architects.
- Provide periodic progress and status updates on migration deliverables.
- Collaborate with other Product Managers and Product Owners on end-to-end customer solutions.
- Assist Solution Management and Product Management in planning the migration order from legacy systems to Catalyst.
- Support the Product Manager in executing the migration strategy.
- · Support customer testing before migration and execute customer migrations.
- Creative problem-solving skills to address complex issues and deliver value to stakeholders.
The Opportunity:
As a Product Owner, you will be responsible for bringing products to life by conveying product needs to the development team and ensuring value is delivered on proposed features. You will define incremental build solutions to achieve larger goals set by the Product Manager and oversee the day-to-day activities of multiple agile teams. This role offers an exciting opportunity to lead multiple initiatives that will enhance customer experience and position MetLife as a leader in the voluntary product space.
Key Responsibilities:
Required Qualifications:
- At least 2 years’ experience working in an agile delivery method.
- At least 2 years’ experience using industry standard agile tools including Azure, Jira, or similar tools.
- At least 5 years’ experience in the financial services industry
- At least 5 years’ experience using industry standard reporting, analytics, or data science tools and technologies.
- At least 5 years of experience leading data or reporting team(s) in support of complex business solutions
- · Solid communication skills
Preferred Qualifications:
- SAFe certifications
- At least 5 years of experience working for an employee benefits provider
- At least 2 years of experience in the disability and absence product domain
- At least 5 years of experience as a product owner or product manager for reporting solutions using the SAFe methodology
- At least 5 years of experience with Azdo setting up features and user stories.
- At least 5 years of experience in agile delivery.
- At least 5 years of experience with Cognos and QlickView