Senior Technical Product Owner

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RGA is a purpose-driven organization working to solve today’s challenges through innovation and collaboration. A Fortune 500 Company and listed among its World’s Most Admired Companies, we’re the only global reinsurance company to focus primarily on life- and health-related solutions. Join our multinational team of intelligent, motivated, and collaborative people, and help us make financial protection accessible to all.

This role consists of strategic product planning, managing the product backlog, being the voice of the customer to the technology teams, business solution design, and project oversight responsibilities for a complex functional technical product or group of products and/or service. You will lead business product managers through defining their product vision and roadmap by leveraging your in-depth industry knowledge, interpretation of business challenges, understanding of key stakeholder needs, and deep technology expertise. You will fulfill this vision by leading and directing the business solution design practice for new product features and capabilities.

Principle Duties:

• Supports the Regional CIO engagement model, acting as a key point of contract for key US-based administration functions.
• Manage team of Business Analysts; assigning and managing work, ensuring business requirements are documented effectively and efficiently. Coaching developing career progress.
• Leads business product managers to define product-level vision in concert with a technology roadmap leveraging portfolio capabilities, frameworks, and processes.
• Leads external clients and/or stakeholders through the design of new product and/or solution features, starting with understanding the business strategy, defining the business need and translating into features and stories for delivery teams, while ensuring the overall approach has valid cost-benefit drivers, and aligns with the business objectives.
• Builds out multi-year strategic product roadmaps incorporating forward looking trends based on business and technology expertise In partnership with the Business Product Manager
• Communicates complex concepts effectively and recommend user-centric solutions; including presenting, pitching, and convincing others to accept alternative approaches to the problem/solution paradigm.
• Leverages the RGA Product Framework and best practices for developing user/business centric solution recommendations and proposals.
• Serves as a Technical expert to ensure accurate interpretation of these needs throughout the development lifecycle.
• Creates and maintains the product backlog; collaborating with business product manager on prioritization and delivery.
• Leads the effort to develop cross-divisional/line of business /geography solution strategy plans for functional product: Identifies and understand stakeholder needs; Assesses existing systems support for the business needs; Works with the appropriate business and IT associates to find the best solutions (across technology and process) and with the functional leads to ensure business processes make the most efficient and effective use of the technology deployed; Develops business objectives, delivery best practices and solution goals; Works with the functional leads to specify in detail how the service will be delivered, roles and responsibilities, effort, and how to measure success of the service and its contribution to supporting the business as part of translating the Business Architecture into an implementation roadmap; and, Documents features and users stories as needed to support the development teams and process.
• Works seamlessly across regions and functions, forming, evolving, and disbanding virtual teams; including establishment of governance structures as appropriate to achieve the objectives.
• Fosters a positive and engaged work environment.

Qualifications:

Education:

Bachelor’s Degree in Arts/Sciences (BA/BS) IT or equivalent experience required

Work Experience:

• 15+ Years progressive professional experience evaluating, delivering, and/or managing complex development and/or process improvement projects in a global environment required
• 10+ Years business and technical experience required

Skills & Abilities:

• Ability to solve unique and complex problems that have a potentially broad impact on the business. Must be a proven, innovative thinker - Advanced Proficiency required
• Facilitation skills with the ability to obtain buy-in from business stakeholders on deliverables. - Advanced Proficiency required
• Global teaming and remote collaboration skills - Expert Proficiency required
• Ability to challenge the status quo in a facilitative and collaborative way - Expert Proficiency required
• Competent in Business Domain Analysis, Business Architecture Development and Business Process Modeling - Advanced Proficiency require
• Persuasion skills when working with internal partners and external providers to resolve issues/problems. - Advanced Proficiency required
• Project management skills. Demonstrates ability to evaluate project objectives and scope feasibility, gain understanding, schedule resources, and manage budget to plan; and, managing multiple projects and/or sub teams simultaneously - Advanced Proficiency required
• Oral and written communication skills including presentation skills, demonstrating the ability to convey information in a way that is meaningful and well received by stakeholders and team members - Expert Proficiency required
• Ability to adapt new methods, work under tight deadlines and stressful conditions - Advanced Proficiency required
• Ability to make timely and effective decisions and produce results through strategic planning and the implementation and evaluation of programs and Ability to foster a teamwork and customer service focused environment - Advanced Proficiency required
• Ability to liaise with individuals across a wide variety of operational, functional, and technical disciplines - Expert Proficiency required

What you can expect from RGA:

• Gain valuable knowledge from and experience with diverse, caring colleagues around the world.
• Enjoy a respectful, welcoming environment that fosters individuality and encourages pioneering thought.
• Join the bright and creative minds of RGA, and experience vast, endless career potential.

Compensation Range:

$123,500.00 - $184,050.00 Annual

Base pay varies depending on job-related knowledge, skills, experience and market location. In addition, RGA provides an annual bonus plan that includes all roles and some positions are eligible for participation in our long-term equity incentive plan. RGA also maintains a full range of health, retirement, and other employee benefits.

RGA is an equal opportunity employer. Qualified applicants will be considered without regard to race, color, age, gender identity or expression, sex, disability, veteran status, religion, national origin, or any other characteristic protected by applicable equal employment opportunity laws.