Senior Product Lead - Integration
Kiwibank
Date: 17 hours ago
City: Auckland, Auckland
Contract type: Contractor
- Wellington/Auckland based opportunity
- Fixed Term Contract – 24 Months
- Banking benefits, additional wellbeing days of leave and more!
Kō tātou tēnei. Hei kawe i ngā mahi kia tutuki | This is us. Where making an impact matters.
At Kiwibank, we are undergoing a significant digital transformation, and we need a seasoned Senior Product Lead for one of our Frontline Lending integration squads.
This squad focuses on integrating and transforming data across multiple systems, developing and deploying APIs, and maintaining key databases to support lending operations and reporting.
Your role as Senior Product Lead will be pivotal in ensuring the squad is set up to succeed, so experience leading a development squad is essential as you'll need to hit the ground running.
Day to day this could include:
- Backlog management – prioritise and refine the product backlog to ensure our team focuses on high-impact initiatives.
- Gathering and shaping user stories and acceptance criteria for refinement with your squad(s)
- Leading product discovery and presenting back options that both, align with Technology strategy, and support the business to achieve their desired outcome
- Agile Leadership – maintain and enhance Agile practices within the squad, facilitating sprint planning, reviews, refinement etc. to ensure efficient and effective development cycles.
- Stakeholder Communications – act as the primary liaison between the development squad and stakeholders, ensuring clear communication of product vision, progress, and challenges.
- Strategic Planning – support the Product Manager in defining the product strategy and roadmap, ensuring alignment with company objectives.
- Clearly articulating the 'why' of prioritised work, and how this will achieve measurable progress towards objectives.
Key skills and experience we’re looking for:
- A strong and proactive collaborator who can confidently engage with stakeholders and present meaningful insights.
- Proven Business analysis and product development life cycle experience.
- Experience leading development teams.
- Ability to lead and drive a team, enabling the team members to easily move from vision to delivery.
- Ability to think strategically and at a detailed level to cope with business and technology complexity.
- Ability to communicate with engineers and architects to allow for effective creation of feature and story delivery and associated success criteria.
- Understanding of DevSecOps processes and tooling.
- Banking/Finance industry experience, in particular across Lending products
We want you to get the most out of work and life, so you will have the option to explore flexible working arrangements that suit both your needs and ours. We now also offer one wellbeing day a quarter to ensure our people are taken care of and can bring their best selves to work. Our great range of benefits include discounted banking, and an incredible package for new parents.
We are proud to be a certified B Corporation, a Pride Pledge partner and we are the first bank in Aotearoa to get the Gender Tick. We are also an accredited Living Wage employer.
Tono mai |Apply Now!– We will be reviewing applications throughout the advertising period, and we reserve the right to withdraw the ad at any time. Applications close Thursday 24th July midday.
Please note: Due to a high volume of applications, there may be a delay in our response. Thank you for your patience.
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