Business Product Owner - Insurance (Part - time)

Accelerate your development and exposure to high performance financial services digital and AI solutions. Join Sedona Digital, a fast-growing technology services provider specialising in the UK Insurance and Banking sector.

Our global client base and internal services delivery roadmap demand a wide range of capabilities. Business architects, product owners, PMs and architects leading our projects. Engineers, developers and QAs who love technology, have deep expertise in software, data and cloud technologies to deliver value fast, with a passion for culture and customers.

• We obsess about our customers
• We build outstanding technical solutions
• We create an awesome culture
• We accelerate learning and career

Your responsibilities will include:

• Help our sales and presales solutions team to win new contracts by engaging with Insurance business leads to map business value delivery, through process improvement to project scope and backlog with our techs.
• Help lead customer project delivery as a part time BA/product owner on Insurance business solution transformations.
• Own the internal and customer-facing business use case catalogues (and value delivery reporting) as part of our AI roadmap team, and Insurance solutions portfolio.

Activities will include:

• Analyze and map current to target business processes with improvements/augmentations that include applied AI.
• Translate business needs into clear, actionable user stories and acceptance criteria via ‘driver trees’.
• Determine monitoring criteria for improved process performance and value.
• Facilitate workshops and meetings with stakeholders and technical teams.
• Prepare functional specifications and process documentation.
• Support a dedicated product owner in backlog grooming and prioritization, or own use-case/business functional backlog for smaller projects, using common backlog tools (e.g. Jira or Azure DevOps).
• Validate solutions against business requirements through user acceptance testing (UAT).
• Act as a liaison between business and technical teams throughout the project lifecycle.
• Provide ongoing support and training to end users.
• Assist in change management and adoption activities.

Requirements

• 5 years’ working within UK insurance sector business processes and applications.
• 3 years’ working as a Business Analyst or Product Owner for application or IT software development projects.
• 6 months of experience’ working with AI to augment or automate business process.
• Demonstrable, proven ability to elicit, analyze, and document business requirements and processes.
• Hands-on experience with Agile methodologies and active participation in Agile ceremonies (e.g., sprint planning, retrospectives, backlog grooming).
• Exceptional communication and stakeholder management skills with gravitas to lead workstreams and engage with C-suite.
• Self-motivated with the ability to work independently and lead BA/PO activities within a multidisciplinary team.
• Strong problem-solving skills and attention to detail.
• Comfortable working in a fast-paced, changing environment.

Benefits

• Hybrid Work
• Opportunity to work in a rapidly growing scale-up organisation
• Exposure to complex, global client engagements
• Training on market trends and client needs
• Ongoing learning and development opportunities
• Competitive compensation package
• Fun budget for team events