CIAM Kanban Product Owner

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Role overview

We are seeking a Product Owner. The ideal candidate must have expertise in ForgeRock, OpenAM and Customer IAM. The Product Owner is encouraged to be knowledgeable on the CIAM product and underlying platforms that the delivery teams are supporting. They should have a solid grasp of Identity and Access Management and consumer IAM work area professional concepts/standards, regulations, strategies, and operating standards

What you’ll do

• Partner with the CIAM leadership to ready requests from numerous sources into a prioritized, result backlog for the team.
• Incorporate customer input into backlog while optimally negotiating tradeoffs of conflicting priorities based on value to the business and customer.
• Collaborate with the CIAM Product Manager, customers, CIAM team and dependent teams to align on priorities, set commitments and prioritize the backlog.
• Define key metrics for relevant reporting on status.
• Own messaging of status and health of the CIAM team’s delivery ensuring that the work meets the customers’ needs.
• Facilitate activities and sessions such as Backlog Refinement.
  
  

What you bring to the role

• Must have 7+ years of technical experience.
• Should have 3+ years of Product Owner and/or equivalent technical experience with leading consumer-based identity and access control platforms specifically ForgeRock or similar CIAM tools.
• Required 3+ years of working in an operational team that has production support responsibilities.
• Experience translating business needs to technical requirements.
• Good communication skills with the ability to lead, influence, negotiate and collaborate with a variety of partners with often conflicting priorities and requirements.
• Experience working with a Kanban team.
• Solid grasp of cyber security concepts, cloud and tools including Identity Access Management (IAM).
  
  

Working arrangements

At Cognizant, we strive to offer flexibility wherever possible. Given the operational requirements of this position, this is a remote position open to qualified candidates from Ontario or Nova Scotia, which is in the same province where our offices are located. No matter how you work, we're here to support work-life balance through our wellness programs.

Note: The working arrangements for this role are accurate as of the date of posting. They may be subject to change based on the specific project and business requirements. However, we will always communicate any changes and be transparent about role expectations.