Lead Product Owner - Cash Equites

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The ASX team brings together talented people from a diverse range of disciplines. 

We run critical market infrastructure, with 1 in 3 people employed within technology.  Yet we have a unique complexity of roles across a range of disciplines such as operations, program delivery, financial products, investor engagement, risk and compliance.

We’re proud of the diversity of our organisation and the culture of inclusion that all our people help to build every day. Our employee-led groups are known for celebrating cultural and religious events, championing LGBTIQ+ inclusion (recently achieving AWEI Bronze), inspiring giving and volunteering, promoting gender equality, and wellbeing.  We are an Employer of Choice for Gender Equality (WGEA) and a member of the Champions of Change Coalition for the advancement of gender equality in Australia. 

About the team:

The Lead Product Owner is responsible for the business service offering of the cash equities trading platform. The PO does this by maintaining an intimate understanding of the trading platforms and can accordingly provide clarity to the team about a product’s vision and goal.  The PO is responsible for seeing platform change through from ideation to implementation.

What you will be doing:

• Planning, developing, managing and prioritising (business service) platform backlogs to meet business objectives and outcomes

• Lead and manage a team of Business Analysts. Guide and shape the team into subject matter experts that aligns with the target operating model of persistent teams.

• Act as the key conduit between the business and technology.

• Develop and transfer knowledge of the platform to the team with the goal to building a high performance cross skilled team.

• Understand customer requirements/needs and determines how the platform can provide a solution.

• Transform high level vision/strategic outcomes of the product into detailed scoping and requirements leveraging the team where and when required

• Works with market operations, application support and other dependent functions to provide technical/functional platform support and guidance.

• Work closely with a range of stakeholders for the product, including non-customer stakeholders such as finance, security operations, support, audit, and others.

• Contribute to the overall Product Vision and Roadmap and communicate the vision and roadmap to ensure teams are aligned and ready to execute against them.

• Assists and supports Business Analysts in user story / requirements creation

• Provides valuable subject matter expertise and input to key governance forums such as project specific committees, data governance and/or assurance activities

• Provides valuable advice on Industry Wide Testing and Customer test environments through the lens of both customer and ASX needs.

• Incident and Problem management advisory as it relates to expected platform functionality

What you will bring:

Must have:

• Ability to distil technical, complex system functionality into easily digestible information for a variety of different stakeholder groups

• Financial Markets technology experience especially in Cash Equities trading platforms

• Bachelor’s degree in Business, Engineering, Information Technology or a related field

• 3+ years’ experience as a Product Owner in agile and hybrid environments

• Proven agile experience and an ability to balance competing priorities against engineering cycles

• Proven track record in delivering solutions with a customer-first mindset

• Proven success in developing and managing backlogs to meet business objectives and outcomes

• Cross skilling and collaboration with other team members on product initiatives

• Ability to clearly and professionally interact with clients, stakeholders and managers

Nice to have:

• Solid understanding of trading systems

• Understanding of ASX customers, products and services

• Previous product management experience

• SAFe Product Owner Certified

We make hiring decisions based on your skills, capabilities and experience, and how you’ll help us to live our values. We encourage you to apply even if you don’t meet all the criteria of this role. If you need any adjustments during the application or interview process to help you present your best self, please let us know.

At ASX Group, our diverse workforce is essential to build and maintain a fair and dynamic marketplace. We support flexible working and offer hybrid working options. Even if our roles are advertised as full-time, we encourage you to apply if you are interested in part-time or other flexible working arrangements.

We will arrange for successful candidates to have background checks, including reference and police checks completed as part of the on-boarding process.