Senior Product Owner at Equifax Inc. in Alpharetta, Georgia

Job Description:

If you are a results oriented agile product owner that is interested in having a pivotal role in a business critical function, read on…

This job represents business stakeholders to elicit, understand, analyze, document, refine and communicate business needs, so that security, business and/or technical delivery teams can build effective solutions. This requires a detailed understanding of security needs, as well as business vision and strategy. The ideal candidate must be able to work collaboratively with multiple security and engineering teams. This position serves as the day to day decision maker and provides continual guidance for the execution team. This position is responsible for prioritizing the execution team's work so that it aligns with the sponsor's/security executive's strategies. The candidate will work with the security and IT delivery teams to identify and mitigate risks to include business operational risks; escalate issues; and develop and recommend appropriate solutions.

Who is Equifax? 

At Equifax, we believe knowledge drives progress. As a global data, analytics and technology company, we play an essential role in the global economy by helping employers, employees, financial institutions and government agencies make critical decisions with greater confidence. 

We work to help create seamless and positive experiences during life’s pivotal moments: applying for jobs or a mortgage, financing an education or buying a car. Our impact is real and to accomplish our goals we focus on nurturing our people for career advancement and their learning and development, supporting our next generation of leaders, maintaining an inclusive and diverse work environment, and regularly engaging and recognizing our employees. Regardless of location or role, the individual and collective work of our employees makes a difference and we are looking for talented team players to join us as we help people live their financial best.

The perks of being an Equifax employee?

• We offer excellent compensation packages with market competitive pay, comprehensive healthcare packages, 401k matching, schedule flexibility, work from home opportunities, paid time off, and organizational growth potential.




• Grow at your own pace through online courses at Learning @ Equifax.

What you'll do:

• Work closely with the stakeholders to build and maintain the product backlog.




• Communicate the vision and goals at the beginning of every release and sprint.




• Define, measure, and report metrics for effective product delivery.




• Elaborate user stories for implementation, working with other product owners across IT to ensure alignment toward the Equifax vision.




• Ensure that the product backlog is constantly prioritized to secure delivery of maximum value.




• Own the roadmap for delivery of capabilities for your product.




• Engage with key customer contacts as required to ensure that all relevant inputs to the product backlog have been collected and prioritized.




• Participate in team planning meetings and exercising availability to provide advice, clarification and guidance during the execution of each sprint.




• Inspect, accept, or reject completed work from the development sprint.




• Work with program managers to support estimation and tracking of budgeting and forecasting for delivery teams.




• Demonstrate completed product functionality to the internal stakeholders at the completion of each sprint.




• Demonstrate an aptitude and drive to learn new technologies and processes.

Qualifications:

• Bachelor Degree in Computer Science or Engineering – Work experience in Security related fields can supplement this.




• Experience as a Scrum Product Owner, working with Agile Delivery Teams, utilizing Agile / Scrum / Kanban.




• At least 7 years of IT experience, including 5 years as a Product Owner or Business Analyst with state-of-the-art hardware and software systems.




• Strong technical foundation in network security technologies (e.g., Secure Web Gateways, SIEM, Security Analytics, etc.)




• Experience building or designing data aggregation and streaming technologies, ideal through a SaaS or PaaS online platform




• Understanding of common industry patterns for big data stewardship and governance




• Experience delivering products as cloud-based services a plus




• Experience working with security operations teams and/or having a strong understanding of organizations’ security practices and programs.




• Understanding of Security Orchestration technologies and a desire to learn more.

Success attributes of an Equifax employee; does this describe you?

• Accountability




• Bravery




• Curiosity




• Collaboration




• Think and act differently




• Trust




• Ownership




• Decide-Execute-Ship

We are an equal opportunity employer and value diversity at our company. We do not discriminate on the basis of race, religion, color, national origin, gender, sexual orientation, age, marital status, veteran status, or disability status.

If this sounds like somewhere you want to work, don’t delay, apply today - we’re looking for you!

Primary Location:

USA-Atlanta JV White

Function:

Function - Tech Dev and Client Services

Schedule:

Full time

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