Technical Product Manager - FAS

Company: Experis
Location: Raleigh
Posted on: March 20, 2023

Job Description:

Title: Technical Product ManagementLength: 6 Month Contract to Hire (Please gather salary expectations) FAS - Financial Advisory Services (Wealth, Investment, Insurance). BIG Salesforce Insurance Project

• • Working with a 3rd party to develop Salesforce Insurance Solution that will support insurance needs end to end, and ultimately end of life two software products with duplicate capabilities (Sabian & QLAdmin).
  • Salesforce will integrate with MuleSoft (API management solution)
  • Insurance Domain - Life Insurance, Whole Life, term Life, Annuities, personal line insurance, ** also have 3rd party insurance capabilities for things such as travelers, renters, auto, health insurance. Policy administration, underwriting.
  • While majority of the Development is owned by the 3rd party, we will do some inhouse development/customization to learn the product ( and support post golive)Required Experience
    • 5+ years of Technical Product Management
      • Product Manager that understands technical aspects of the product capabilities down to the APIs)
      • Attitude - Ability to wear many hats to get the team/products to the next level. Less worried about a Job Title/Job Description but the impact they can make (ability to take on new challenges/learn)
      • Insurance or Investment Industry
      • Management experience - Proven experience in Management of Task, Coordination of Effort, Resource alignment
        • While this role is an IC, this person will give oversight to day to day direction of team members (no HR aspects. Prior people management experience is nice to have.
        • Agile / SDLC Experience
          • Tools - Jira / Confluence SME (lessons learned, and best practices)
          • Ability to lead a daily stand up (as needed)
          • Own Project & Product Roadmaps
            • Extremely strong organizational skills - While some projects will have dedicated PM support, others will not, as such, this job will involve project management work
            • Planning - ability to map out (technically)product/project roadmaps. Work alongside BSAs on team (guiding them) towards meeting product/project milestones
            • Documentation - Strong ability to understand the Business User's needs and ability (While BSA will write User Stories, you will document the Workflow between applications (document the "how")
            • Technical Acumen
              • While this person may not have ever written code, we are looking for someone who has lived in the IT Space / SDLC space.
              • Understands APIs and their implementation/support processes.Preferred Experience
                • Salesforce Experience or relevant CRM
                • CSM, ScrumMaster Experience (must be willing to step in and wear the hat of scrum master in future sate)
                • Prefer infancy of product delivery through production
                • Prior API Development / Webservices Experience (Ideal candidate will have been a developer earlier in their career, may consider non developer if VERY strong in Technical Knowledge - ability to troubleshoot/solution)Role / Job Function
                  • Champion the project, oversee daily activities / progress of the System. While the job responsibilities are broad, it's application is narrow and right sized.
                  • SME of Product Capabilities & Execution - Liaison between BU & Technical Teams. Work alongside Business partners (defining priority, ensuring roadmaps are achievable), ensure backlog is Groomed. You are not taking over Product Ownership but helping the business Users with product ownership.
                  • Agile Delivery - our teams are in their infancy (30-60+ days out to becoming Scrum Teams). We are looking for you to bring your lessons learned, and eventually stepping in as Scrum Master as our agile teams coalesce. When the products mature, this responsibility will adapt as the organization changes.
                    • Tools Expertise (Jira/Confluence) to guide teams. We are currently going through an enterprise roll out of Atlassian Products. Would Love this person to be a SME in these tools.
                    • Teaching and Coaching (Business and IT)
                    • Execute based upon Priority (defined at senior leadership level)
                    • Oversee Execution, oversight to team alignment/work without direct reports (You will step in for both BSAs (2) and Developer (1)). Ability to speak both BSA/Dev lingo to assist as needed.
                    • Align "players" in place to reach timelines/deliverables, coordinate effort, Manage Tasks, review documentation, user cases, user needs.
                    • Advise on development solutions.
                      

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