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The Payments team owns the tender, authorization, capture, and settlement flow for all digital orders - credit (including mobile wallets via a tokenization provider), and government benefit tenders (SNAP, WIC) - spanning several backend services and downstream order/financial systems. This contract TPO will own backlog clarity, acceptance criteria, and delivery decisions for one or more of these services, working closely with engineers and architects already on the team. This is a delivery-focused contract role, while they will own and maintain the payment roadmap, in alignemnt to their leader.\nWhat You'll Be Doing\nTranslate business and compliance requirements into well-defined features, stories, and testable acceptance criteria for payments/tender flows.\nMaintain backlog ordering, readiness, and transparency for the team(s) you support; make timely scope and priority calls to keep delivery moving.\nDevelop a working understanding of the payment pipeline (tender selection, authorization/capture, card tokenization, partial/split capture for marketplace orders, government benefit tender handling) sufficient to make informed tradeoffs with engineering.\nPartner with engineers/architects on discovery and refinement without dictating implementation; flag ambiguous requirements, dependency gaps, and risk early.\nValidate delivered work against acceptance criteria and intended outcome, including coordination of functional/integration testing across tender types.\nOwnership in release readiness for payments changes - understand what's shipping, confirm monitoring/rollback thinking, and support go-live communication.\nSupport production issue triage for payments incidents (customer/business impact, ownership, communication) in partnership with engineering.\nWork within the team's existing SAFe Agile ceremonies (planning, standups, backlog refinement, retro).\nMust-Have\nExperience as a Technical Product Owner / Product Owner on a software delivery team (Agile/SAFe), not just a business analyst or project coordinator.\nDemonstrated ability to create clear, testable acceptance criteria and break down features into right-sized stories.\nComfortable discussing APIs, data flows, and system integrations with engineers - enough technical depth to ask the right questions and make scope tradeoffs, not necessarily hands-on coding.\nExperience owning a backlog for a service with real production usage (not just a greenfield project).\nStrong written and verbal communication - this role will need to translate between engineering and business/compliance stakeholders.\nNice-to-Have\nNice-to-have experience as a software engineer, architect, payment subject matter expert.\nPrior experience in payments, order management, e-commerce checkout, or financial transaction systems.\nFamiliarity with event-driven/workflow-orchestration systems (e.g. Temporal, Kafka, GCP).\nExposure to PCI, tokenization, or other payment-compliance considerations.\nExperience with retail/e-commerce order flows (pickup, delivery, marketplace/3rd-party fulfillment, subscriptions).\nDon't Want / Red Flags\nPure business analyst or project manager background with no backlog/acceptance-criteria ownership. 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