Product Analyst/Business Analyst

Job Description

Position Type : Full time Type Of Hire : Experienced (relevant combo of work and education) Travel Percentage : 15 - 25%Are you curious, motivated, and forward-thinking At FIS you ll have the opportunity to work on some of the most challenging and relevant problems in financial services and technology. Our talented people empower us, and we believe in being part of a team that is open, collaborative, entrepreneurial, passionate and above all fun.About the teamFIS product team is seeking an Agile Product Owner to join amazing team working on financial technology solutions, who are passionate about transforming the way world Pay and Bank.What you will be doingFinancial Industry is growing at more than 10% per year internationally, fueled by advances in technology, consumer engagement, regulations, and payments. FIS, as the industry leader in Payments & Banking innovation, creates services that are vital for the world s largest and fastest-growing merchants & SMEs to achieve predictable, profitable revenue streams.The Product Analyst will be a product champion, a great team player with encouraging approach with cross functional teams. Curious, motivated, forward-thinking with can do attitude has the opportunity to join the team.
• Define, maintain & prioritize backlog (user stories/features) to guide the agile software development team.
• Research / Analysis needs of the consuming applications to understand and articulate requirements for the APIs
• Works with architecture / technical leads to build designs for longer term scalable product
• Deep understanding of the business / customer to participate in domain modeling exercises with team on API design
• Ability to review API specs and assess fit with long term product goals
• Understand and advocate API Best Practices for all API products
• Ability to assess architecture/solution designs are fitting with the longer-term scalable product vision
• Helps prepare/guide technical writers to product documentation
• Able to put together business process / developer experience flows
• Participates in Product Support and maintenance activities along with Business Operations and Technical Operations teams
• Solve product related problems, make decisions, complete trade-off analysis working in the guidance of the Product Manager closely to stay on track towards business deliverable commitments.
• Contribute to defining the product key objectives and results, strategies and apply the data for the product to make business decisions while working with the Product Manager
• Possess a fundamental understanding of end-to-end customer experience integration and dependencies.
• Contributes to the product vision by collaborating with Product Manager, stakeholders during the visioning and concept development of a product.
• Ensure team focuses on those with a maximum value that are aligned with product strategy and vision as defined by the Product Manager
• Ability draft & define appropriately detailed specifications for the product features, so they are clearly understood by the development & QA teams and document them in the enterprise requirements planning tool
• Understands product strategy, market, industry, and client goals.
• Reviews and provides feedback on test plans to ensure application changes meet acceptance criteria.
• Creates Sprint Release Plans with scrum master, project managers & development teams in alignment with priorities defined by the Product Manager.
• Monitors the development progress and provides updates to the Product Manager and stakeholders, as requested.
• Leads refinement, planning and review meetings to communicate feedback on development achievements.
• Trains internal employees or external clients on changes, new systems, or new procedures. Conducts one-on-one or classroom training depending upon the size or desire of the audience.
What you bring:
• 3+ years of experience in software product management or equivalent role
• Experienced as a Product Owner and having hands on working experience with banking or payment domain (must)
• Well versed in API Technologies Swagger.io/Open API 3.0, REST/JSON and SOAP/XML, and tools like Splunk, Postman, SoapUI etc.,
• Understanding of API Design Patterns (microservices, domain driven design, gateway vs, proxy vs. orchestration patterns etc.,
• Prior experience 3+ years in the payments industry, with demonstrable understanding of major trends in Online / Instore payment solutions
• Understanding of agile methodology, e.g. SAFe, with competence utilizing project management software tolls (e.g. Rally) to write concise user stories to communicate with the Engineering and QA teams and to ensure feasibility.
• Ability to operate independently and effectively, under the supervision of Product Managers
• Familiarity with managing a post-production launch to support the sales cycle, gauge performance
• A strong team player, comfortable collaborating with and coordinating the efforts of cross-functional colleagues
• Highly self-motivated with a strong will to win, ability to take ownership and desire to drive for optimal business results
• Ability to adapt to and embrace frequent change with a positive attitude
• Ability to appropriately prioritize multiple competing needs for self and team
• A self-starter with a can-do attitude who can operate with minimal direct/daily supervision
• Some prior development experience building / consuming APIs would be a bonus
What we offer you A Competitive salary and excellent bonus potentialA multifaceted job with a high degree of responsibility and a broad spectrum of opportunitiesA work environment built on collaboration, flexibility and respectVaried and challenging work to help you grow your technical skillsetPrivacy StatementFIS is committed to protecting the privacy and security of all personal information that we process in order to provide services to our clients. For specific information on how FIS protects personal information online, please see the Online Privacy Notice .Sourcing ModelRecruitment at FIS works primarily on a direct sourcing model; a relatively small portion of our hiring is through recruitment agencies. FIS does not accept resumes from recruitment agencies which are not on the preferred supplier list and is not responsible for any related fees for resumes submitted to job postings, our employees, or any other part of our company.#pridepass,

Keyskills :
design patternspost productiondomain modelingproduct strategy