Dawn InfoTek Inc . is a professional IT consulting team that partners with major financial institutions, investment firms and government sectors. We have been dedicated to delivering cutting-edge consulting services and recruiting all levels of IT positions for our clients.
We are currently seeking competent individuals to fulfill the role of Product Owner to join our dynamic team for our client.
Location Address: Hybrid - 2 days/week - need candidates in GTA
Contract Duration: 6 months - sept 9th start date
Possibility of extension & conversion to FTE
Pay rate: $90/hr - $105/hr + HST
Typical Day in Role
• Collaborate with stakeholders across the Bank - you will work closely with development and engineering, devops, cloud, application security and other application owner teams across the organization to deliver Software Composition Analysis (SCA) and SBOM capabilities for the Bank.
• Define the objectives and scope of the product, clearly outlining the problems and risks it's solving.
• Product Strategy
• Contribute to the success of our product strategy by driving stakeholder alignment, maintaining a clear RACIs and clearly articulating MVP success criteria and rollout plans
• Product Management
• Build and maintain product roadmaps.
• Communicate roadmap progress with stakeholders and clients
• Manage and prioritize the product backlog, along with new features and enhancements we require from the product
• Facilitate forums and prepare the team for constructive collaboration sessions with cross-functional teams, technology and business channels, and control functions
• Define and report on overall product status, metrics, key achievements, next steps and risks with a data-driven approach
• Data Driven Insights and Presentation Skills
• Excellent presentation skills - as a Product Manager, you will be the spokesperson for your product to the organization at large. You should be proficient at creating presentations and comfortable speaking to a large leadership audience.
• You will articulate product roadmap decisions based on sound data. You must therefore be proficient with data analysis (using MS excel etc.), as it is a key skill in driving a data-driven approach to decision making.
• You are comfortable with developing business cases with a clear cost/benefit analysis and cost allocation model to unlock funding for your roadmap items (with Technology, PMO, and Finance approvals).
Candidate Requirements/Must Have Skills:
1) 10+ years' relevant working experience in IT (application development, security etc.)
2) 3+ years' experience as a Product Manager
3) 3+ years' experience with AppSec domains like SAST, SCA, DAST and/or tools like Veracode, Checkmarx, Fortify, Snyk, Burp Suite, Zap etc.
4) 3+ years' experience with documenting process, requirements and product information
5) 1+ year' experience building business cases and demonstrating value of a product and cost-benefit analysis
Nice-To-Have Skills:
1) Experience with API Security
2) 3+ years' experience with CI/CD Pipeline tools and processes like BitBucket/GitHub, Jfrog Artifactory, Ansible, Confluence, Jira, Bamboo etc
3) Experience with deployment and managing IaaS, PaaS & SaaS solutions
4) 3+ years' experience in the financial industry or tech/startups
Soft Skills Required:
• Excellent presentation skills - as a Product Manager, you will be the spokesperson for your product to the organization at large
• Proficient at creating presentations and comfortable speaking to a large leadership audience.
• Demonstrable communication capability including verbal presentations to senior leadership
Education:
Education doesn't matter as much - valuing work experience more
Security certifications like CISSP an asset
Job Type: Fixed term contract
Schedule:
Monday to Friday
Work Location: Hybrid remote in Toronto, ON M5H 1H1
