Product Owner (with P&C Insurance Domain and Azure DevOps) - Only W2

Role: Product Owner *(P&C and Azure DevOps) need a Domain Expert
Location: Dallas, TX (or) Irving, TX (Hybrid - 3 days a week onsite is required)
Job Type: W2 Contract

Job Description:
P&C insurance domain experience is a must-have or a must-learn-fast: either bring working knowledge of Commercial Lines (account/policy/coverage structures, underwriting eligibility/referral rules, rating factors) or demonstrate a track record of ramping into a regulated insurance domain within weeks, not months.

Requirements Gathering: Engage with business stakeholders to capture detailed requirements. Understand the business context, compliance implications, and user impact of every request.

Story Writing: Translate business requirements into clear, actionable user stories with specific, testable acceptance criteria. Ensure stories include the "what" and "why" so technical teams can determine the "how."

Backlog Management: Maintain and prioritize the team backlog in Azure DevOps. Ensure stories are groomed, well-defined, and sequenced by business value.

Technical Collaboration: Partner with Tech Leads during story review to ensure technical completeness. If the Tech Lead identifies architecture implications, flag the story for architecture review.

Acceptance & Validation: Accept completed work against acceptance criteria (Level 1 validation). For bug fixes that impacted stakeholders, follow up post-deployment for stakeholder confirmation (Level 2). For new external-facing features, compliance changes, and financial calculations, conduct formal UAT with stakeholders (Level 3).

Compliance Tracking: For compliance-flagged work, confirm filing dates, effective dates, and regulatory deadlines. Build timelines backward from hard deadlines and track throughout the delivery cycle.

Stakeholder Communication: Provide progress updates, sprint demos, and release communications to business stakeholders. Maintain transparency on delivery status and timeline changes.

Continuous Improvement: Pursue Product Owner certification if not already held. Attend training to sharpen requirements gathering, story writing, and backlog management skills.

Analytical Skills: Strong ability to dig into business processes, ask the right questions, and produce precise requirements.

Documentation: Excellent written documentation skills. Ability to produce clear, detailed user stories and business requirements documents.

Communication: Proven ability to engage stakeholders, clarify priorities, and gain alignment across business and technical teams.

Tools: Hands-on experience with Azure DevOps or similar agile tools for backlog management.

Insurance Knowledge: Familiarity with insurance operations, products, or technology is strongly preferred.

Technical Curiosity: Comfortable learning new systems, APIs, and data flows to become the domain expert for your stream.

CSPO, PSPO, or SAFe Product Owner certification preferred.