Product Owner Senior Associate at DTCC in Jersey City, NJ

Are you ready to make an impact at DTCC?

Do you want to work on innovative projects, collaborate with a dynamic and supportive team, and receive investment in your professional development? At DTCC, we are at the forefront of innovation in the financial markets. We are committed to helping our employees grow and succeed. We believe that you have the skills and drive to make a real impact. We foster a thriving internal community and are committed to creating a workplace that looks like the world that we serve.

Pay and Benefits:

• Competitive compensation, including base pay and annual incentive
• Comprehensive health and life insurance and well-being benefits, based on location
• Pension / Retirement benefits
• Paid Time Off and Personal/Family Care, and other leaves of absence when needed to support your physical, financial, and emotional well-being.
• DTCC offers a flexible/hybrid model of 3 days onsite and 2 days remote (onsite Tuesdays, Wednesdays and a third day unique to each team or employee).

The Impact you will have in this role:

As a member of the Repository & Derivatives Services (RDS) Product Management team, the Product Owner (Senior Associate) plays a critical role in delivering strategic initiatives that drive innovation, efficiency, and growth across the RDS domain. This role focuses on translating product direction into tangible, production-ready capabilities, leveraging data, analytics, and emerging technologies to enhance client value and support DTCC’s broader strategic objectives. You will work cross-functionally to solve complex problems, deliver high-quality solutions, and contribute to product evolution in a rapidly evolving financial landscape.

Your Primary Responsibilities:

• Lead delivery teams, including Scrum Masters, Business Analysts, Developers, QA Analysts, and other stakeholders, to create solutions that meet business needs in an Agile environment.
• Own and manage the product backlog, translating product direction into clear user stories, workflows, business rules, data requirements, and acceptance criteria based on real-world scenarios.
• Guide the team in decomposing requirements into deliverable increments, maintaining just-enough documentation and a running functional specification for final deliverables.
• Review enhancement requests, defects, and production feedback to determine appropriate solutions while considering downstream impacts on existing features, data flows, and user experience.
• Analyze regulatory, client, and business requirements, and lead walkthroughs, demos, and functionality feedback sessions with internal and external stakeholders.
• Support the design, prototyping, and delivery of strategic AI and analytics use cases, ensuring they are practical, scalable, and aligned to business outcomes.
• Develop a strong understanding of confirmations and transaction reporting datasets, including the underlying insights, data structures, workflows, and business logic.
• Partner with internal teams such as Sales, Operations, Technology, Legal, and Finance to support operational readiness, align risk and control considerations, and escalate appropriately.

Qualifications:

• Minimum of 5 years of professional experience in product ownership, business analysis, product delivery, data delivery, or solution delivery
• Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Statistics, Data Science, Financial Mathematics, Engineering, Finance, or a related quantitative / technical discipline

Talents Needed for Success:

• Strong execution mindset; able to turn product direction into deliverable outcomes
• Prior experience in financial services, RegTech, regulatory reporting, transaction reporting, or post-trade technology
• Hands-on experience with Agile delivery practices, including Scrum, Kanban, or scaled Agile delivery
• Hands-on experience with JIRA or equivalent backlog / delivery management tooling
• Working knowledge of SQL and data analysis concepts
• Experience with data modelling or data-driven product delivery
• Experience with Snowflake or similar cloud data platforms
• Familiarity with Snowflake Cortex, AI-enabled analytics, or comparable analytics tooling
• Python or similar scripting experience
• Comfortable moving between structured delivery and exploratory prototyping
• Able to translate business logic, data, and user needs into clear requirements
• Strong analytical problem-solving and attention to detail
• Confident presenting demos, gathering client feedback and supporting sales functions
• Produces high-quality outputs with limited supervision
• Strong collaboration across product, technology, data, and client-facing teams

The salary range is indicative for roles at the same level within DTCC across all US locations. Actual salary is determined based on the role, location, individual experience, skills, and other considerations. We are an equal opportunity employer and value diversity at our company. We do not discriminate on the basis of race, religion, color, national origin, sex, gender, gender expression, sexual orientation, age, marital status, veteran status, or disability status. We will ensure that individuals with disabilities are provided reasonable accommodation to participate in the job application or interview process, to perform essential job functions, and to receive other benefits and privileges of employment. Please contact us to request accommodation.

About the Team

Clearing & Securities Services group delivers world-class safety and soundness for the global financial services industry. The team provides DTCC’s portfolio of core securities business, including Institutional Trade processing and First Line Resilience and Control to facilitate better end-to-end planning and prioritization as well as enable more coordinated and seamless delivery of capabilities and services for our clients.

About the Company

With over 50 years of experience, DTCC is the premier post-trade market infrastructure for the global financial services industry. From 20 locations around the world, DTCC, through its subsidiaries, automates, centralizes, and standardizes the processing of financial transactions, mitigating risk, increasing transparency, enhancing performance and driving efficiency for thousands of broker/dealers, custodian banks and asset managers. Industry owned and governed, the firm innovates purposefully, simplifying the complexities of clearing, settlement, asset servicing, transaction processing, trade reporting and data services across asset classes, bringing enhanced resilience and soundness to existing financial markets while advancing the digital asset ecosystem. In 2024, DTCC’s subsidiaries processed securities transactions valued at U.S. $3.7 quadrillion and its depository subsidiary provided custody and asset servicing for securities issues from over 150 countries and territories valued at U.S. $99 trillion. DTCC’s Global Trade Repository service, through locally registered, licensed, or approved trade repositories, processes more than 25 billion messages annually. To learn more, please visit us at www.dtcc.com or connect with us on LinkedIn, X, YouTube, Facebook and Instagram.

DTCC proudly supports Flexible Work Arrangements favoring openness and gives people freedom to do their jobs well, by encouraging diverse opinions and emphasizing teamwork. When you join our team, you’ll have an opportunity to make meaningful contributions at a company that is recognized as a thought leader in both the financial services and technology industries. A DTCC career is more than a good way to earn a living. It’s the chance to make a difference at a company that’s truly one of a kind.

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