SME / Product Owner

You will act as a bridge between business, product, and engineering teams, driving product vision, defining requirements, and ensuring high-quality delivery of scalable digital solutions.

As an SME in leasing business, specializing in InfoLease product, you will be a key player from Infosys domain consulting team and collaborate between Synovus (the end user of the product) and Solifi (the product vendor). You will be an effective and influential communicator, capable of interacting with multiple external vendors and app owners from Synovus who interface with InfoLease. You will help discover and define the upgrade effort, evaluate the solution and implementation options and suggest the most optimal solutions substantiating the rationale behind the recommendations. You will facilitate design discussions between Solifi and Synovus tech teams, oversee the design and implementation artifacts and actively participate and lead deployment exercise for the upgrade version. Post deployment, you will also oversee knowledge transfer, facilitate preparing knowledge and training documents for operations team and line of business., * Lead problem discovery, requirement definition, and solution evaluation for digital banking initiatives

• Act as Product Owner, driving product vision, roadmap, and backlog prioritization
• Translate business strategy into MVP definitions and incremental delivery plans
• Lead Agile ceremonies: PI Planning, Sprint Planning, Backlog Grooming, Reviews & Demos
• Define and manage user stories, acceptance criteria, and backlog health
• Work closely with solution architects, engineering teams, and UX teams to ensure design alignment
• Define API contracts, request/response mappings, and integration flows
• Partner with stakeholders during product demos, UAT validation, and production rollout
• Manage release documentation (go/no-go decisions, release notes, support models)
• Collaborate with testing teams to plan and execute functional validation
• Support post-production and rollout stabilization activities

• Bachelor s degree or foreign equivalent required from an accredited institution. Will also consider three years of progressive experience in the specialty in lieu of every year of education.
• At least 6 years of experience with Information Technology.
• Location for this position is Atlanta, GA. Candidate must be located within commuting distance or be willing to relocate to the area. This position may require travel to project locations.
• S. citizens and those authorized to work in the U.S. are encouraged to apply. We are unable to sponsor at this time.

Preferred Experiences:

• Minimum 10+ years of experience leasing business IT solutions.
• Experience with InfoLease platform.
• Experience with data migration and data validations post migration
• Strong understanding of internet-based platform implementation.
• Strong understanding of security and firewall requirements vis–vis implementation and interaction with vendor applications.
• Ability to communicate at leadership level.
• Conversant with Scaled Agile or similar Agile framework.
• Good understanding of business process and effectively use Design principals and automation to optimize the process.
• Align with product manager, operations team and line of business s to clearly articulate upgrade implementation and data migration strategy.
• Operate with little supervision and troubleshoot complex problems, to recommend appropriate actions
• Partner with solution architects and other technical leads to ensure their solutions effectively address program priorities while balancing client experience and technical integrity.
• Provide simulated, prototype and product demos to key stakeholders
• Lead production business validations, in partnership with product manager
• Connect and align Commercial Truist application migration strategy with Enterprise requirements for data migration
• Coordinate with testing partners and execute functional test cases
• At least 5 years of experience in requirement elicitation techniques like JAD/sessions, workshops, interviews, surveys etc.
• At least 3 years of experience in Business Analysis tools like HP ALM and MS Visio
• At least 3 years of experience in Development/ Configuration/solutions evaluation/ Validation and deployment
• At least 3 years of experience in capturing requirements related to internal/external consulting, documenting, and mapping current business process
• Experience and desire to work in a management consulting environment that requires regular travel

The job entails sitting as well as working at a computer for extended periods of time. Should be able to communicate by telephone, email or face to face. Travel may be required as per the job requirements.