Senior Product Owner

Strategic Staffing Solutions | Product Management | Staffing and recruiting

Hybrid

Contract

United States of America, Charlotte

Strategic Staffing Solutions is currently looking for a Senior Product Owner, W-2 contract opportunity.

Location: Charlotte, NC

Type: W-2 Contract (NO C2C)

Contract: 12 months

This is a W-2 contract opportunity, and candidates must be able to work on our W-2 only. NO C2C or 1099.

Top Skills:

Product ownership and delivery leadership
Requirements elicitation, documentation, and backlog management
Business process analysis and workflow design
Enterprise data integration experience
Data validation, reconciliation, and data governance
Ability to verify source-to-target mappings and integration outcomes
Experience working with complex business rules and calculations
Strong stakeholder facilitation and alignment skills
Agile delivery experience
Experience building custom software products

Strongly Preferred

Financial systems and/or data management experience
Financial reporting and analytics
Cost allocation methodologies
Regulatory compliance and auditability
Utility industry experience
Interconnection process knowledge
Experience supporting systems of record and multi-system integrations

Required / Basic Qualifications

Bachelor's degree in Engineering, Information Systems, Computer Science, Business, Finance, Accounting, Economics, or related field
5 years of related experience
In lieu of Bachelor's degree and 5 years of related experience, High School/GED and 10 years of related experience

Required Experience

Product ownership, product delivery leadership, or business systems implementation experience
Requirements elicitation, documentation, refinement, and backlog management
Business process analysis and workflow design
Enterprise data integration initiatives
Data validation, reconciliation, and data governance activities
Verification of source-to-target mappings and integration outcomes
Experience working with complex business rules, calculations, and decision logic
Stakeholder facilitation and cross-functional collaboration
Agile software delivery methodologies
Experience supporting the development and implementation of custom software products

Position Summary

Description:

The Senior Product Owner supports the definition, delivery, and lifecycle management of CASPAR (Cost Allocation Schedule Performance Analytics & Reporting), a strategic platform within the company’s Interconnection ecosystem. CASPAR is being developed to serve as the system of record for interconnection cost allocation, financial tracking, schedule performance analytics, and reporting across the interconnection lifecycle. The platform is the system of record for the relationship between interconnection customers, interconnection facilities, network upgrades, financial projects, and allocated cost responsibility while enabling improved transparency, automation, auditability, and regulatory compliance.

This position provides Product Owner leadership for a multi-year implementation initiative focused on modernizing and enhancing CASPAR through improved business processes, data governance, automation, reporting, and integration with key enterprise systems including Datamart, EcoSys, FIHUB, and related interconnection platforms. The role will be primarily focused on successful implementation and adoption of CASPAR, while providing flexibility to support additional products and initiatives within company’s broader Interconnection Management ecosystem as business needs evolve.

The Senior Product Owner will partner closely with business sponsors, subject matter experts, architects, developers, data integration resources, testers, and vendor partners to deliver an approved product roadmap. Business sponsors will define product strategy, drive prioritization decisions, approve scope direction, and resolve significant business tradeoffs. The Senior Product Owner will own execution of the approved roadmap, including requirements gathering, backlog ownership, stakeholder alignment, product delivery, and validation of delivered functionality. This role will also own and execute on the successful migration from the current business product to CASPAR.

This position requires a balance of business process expertise and technical product leadership. Approximately 60% of the role is focused on business process analysis, requirements management, stakeholder engagement, business rule definition, and delivery coordination. The remaining 40% focuses on technical product implementation activities including data integration requirements, system validation, data reconciliation, reporting, and verification of integration outcomes. While technical resources will execute integrations and development activities, the Product Owner must possess sufficient technical and data expertise to confidently validate designs & calculation results, ensure solutions meet business objectives, and review and validate source-to-target mappings for migration.
The ideal candidate combines strong product ownership capabilities with experience supporting enterprise data initiatives, financial systems, regulatory environments, and complex business processes. This individual must be comfortable operating at the intersection of business, technology, data, finance, and compliance while driving successful delivery of a highly visible strategic initiative.

Responsibilities

Develop a deep understanding of interconnection business processes, cost allocation methodologies, financial data, and regulatory requirements.
Own delivery of the approved CASPAR roadmap in partnership with business sponsors and Product Management.
Elicit, document, analyze, refine, and maintain business requirements, functional specifications, user stories, acceptance criteria, and product documentation.
Build, groom, maintain, and manage the product backlog, ensuring traceability from business objectives through delivery.
Document business process workflows, business rules, financial calculations, data requirements, and operational procedures.
Ensure product requirements accurately reflect business processes, compliance needs, operational objectives, financial calculations, and reporting requirements.
Facilitate stakeholder work sessions to gather requirements, resolve ambiguities, and drive alignment across diverse stakeholder groups.
Collaborate with developers, architects, analysts, testers, business SMEs, and vendor partners to deliver product enhancements.
Support data integration initiatives by defining business requirements, validating mapping logic, reviewing transformation rules, and verifying integration outcomes.
Validate delivered functionality against approved requirements and acceptance criteria.
Review and verify source-to-target mappings, data transformations, reconciliation results, reporting outputs, and business rule execution.
Support testing activities including system integration testing, user acceptance testing, regression testing, and data validation efforts.
Partner with technical teams to ensure data integrity, governance, auditability, and operational readiness.
Identify dependencies, risks, assumptions, and implementation challenges and proactively communicate them to stakeholders.
Participate in Agile ceremonies including sprint planning, backlog refinement, reviews, retrospectives, and release planning.
Support onboarding, training, change management, and adoption activities.
Communicate roadmap status, implementation progress, risks, and outcomes to stakeholders and leadership teams.
Contribute to continuous improvement efforts across the Interconnection product ecosystem.

Desired Qualifications

Bachelor's degree in Information Systems, Computer Science, Engineering, Finance, Accounting, Economics, or related discipline
Master's Degree in Business Administration, Information Systems, Data Analytics, Finance, or related field
Certified Scrum Product Owner (CSPO), SAFe Product Owner/Product Manager, or equivalent Agile certification
Strong analytical, problem-solving, and critical-thinking skills
Ability to communicate complex business, technical, and financial concepts to diverse audiences
Experience operating in an environment driven by KPIs, metrics, and continuous improvement
Ability to work independently and proactively manage competing priorities
Strong written and verbal communication skills Experience leading highly collaborative cross-functional teams through complex implementations
Entrepreneurial with a strong inclination towards action, preferably with experience shipping oftware.
Ability to be self-directed and to proactively anticipate problems and seek opportunities
Excellent communication skills including the ability to build relationships and effectively influence across all management and organizational levels.

Additional Preferred Qualifications

Financial systems and/or financial data management experience
Financial reporting, analytics, and business intelligence experience
Experience with cost allocation methodologies and financial calculations
Knowledge of regulatory compliance, audit controls, and data governance practices

Utility industry experience

Experience supporting interconnection processes, transmission, generation, or related utility operations
Familiarity with FERC and state-regulated business processes
Experience supporting systems of record and multi-system enterprise integrations
Experience working with platforms that integrate data from multiple enterprise applications
Experience validating reporting, data transformations, and reconciliation processes
Knowledge of enterprise reporting and analytics platforms
Experience implementing large-scale business transformation or modernization initiatives

Working Conditions

Office environment
Hybrid work environment based on business needs
Occasional travel may be required for stakeholder meetings, workshops, training sessions, and implementation activities
Field Mobility Classification Work may be performed in various field or office locations as needed.
Employees must reside within a reasonable commuting distance of their assigned work location.

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Required Skills

analyticsbusiness_processesregression_testingreportingrisk_managementuser_stories

Required Languages

🇬🇧 English

Key competency: Product Management