Genesis10 is currently seeking a Sr Product Owner with our client in the financial industry located in Charlotte, NC. This is a 12+ month contract position.
Responsibilities:
- Accountable for defining and driving the strategic direction of a specific data domain or capability within banking domain
- Act as the strategic owner
- Ensure alignment with enterprise architecture, governance frameworks, and business priorities
- Serve as a critical bridge between strategy and execution, empowering Agile delivery teams to build scalable, compliant, and high-quality data products that support business operations, regulatory obligations, and analytical needs
- Operate horizontally across delivery verticals, enable consistent end-to-end data flow design patterns, reduce rework, and embed modernization opportunities such as cloud migration, AI adoption, and data-as-a-product principles
- Define and maintain the strategic vision for the data domain, addressing current-state challenges, modernization opportunities, and simplification goals
- Co-develop road maps with delivery teams to balance long-term direction and near-term execution
- Evaluate new demand during intake to identify opportunities for strategic execution (e.g., governance, data quality, modernization)
- Influence scope and design decisions to align with enterprise priorities
- Monitor delivery outputs against strategic objectives using clear metrics
- Escalate misalignments and propose corrective actions to ensure predictable delivery
- Engage with business, regulatory, and operational stakeholders to ensure strategy reflects real-world needs and drives measurable business value
- Partner with architects to enforce alignment with enterprise blueprints and standardized data design patterns; co-own pattern libraries and governance routines
- Actively participate in PI planning and Inspect & adapt workshops
- Incorporate audit learnings, production incident themes, and delivery retrospectives into strategy updates to strengthen governance and improve audit readiness
- Promote treating data as a product through canonical models, reusable APIs, and shared contracts
- Collaborate with Agile Product Owners to embed these into team backlogs
Requirements:
- 10 years' in data/architecture/product roles, including 5 years in payments/treasury or banking
- Proven delivery in regulated environments
- Proven ability to define and execute domain-level strategies in complex organizations
- Deep understanding of payment rails, clearing/settlement, cross-border flows, correspondent banking, treasury/payments operations; ISO20022, SWIFT MT/MX
- PSD2/Open Banking, AML/Sanctions (GFCC), NFRR/FRR reporting controls, audit readiness; data retention/lineage requirements
- Strong understanding of data management principles, including canonical data modelling, shared data contracts, and API-driven integration patterns
- Familiarity with modern data architectures such as data lakehouse, cloud-native ecosystems, and interoperability standards
- Ability to define and enforce data standardization practices across domains, ensuring consistency and scalability in support of business and regulatory needs.
- Design-pattern stewardship, control frameworks, standards enforcement, policy-to-implementation traceability
- Roadmap definition, backlog curation, Epic/Feature acceptance criteria; use-case capture and prioritization for reuse and measurable value
- Ability to challenge scope for simplification/modernization; dependency and risk management across delivery verticals
- Executive-level storytelling, cross-functional influence, multi-location collaboration across teams
Desired skills:
- Experience guiding migration to modern platforms (e.g., Azure, AWS), data lakes/warehouses, streaming, real-time payments integration
- Certifications: SAFe POPM/Architect, CDMP/DAMA, and cloud certifications (Azure/AWS)
- Understanding of Data Mesh Principles: Domain-oriented data ownership models and federated governance
Pay range: $66.39 - $74.39
Only candidates available and ready to work directly as Genesis10 employees will be considered for this position.
If you have the described qualifications and are interested in this exciting opportunity, please apply!
About Genesis10:
Ranked a Top Staffing Firm in the U.S. by Staffing Industry Analysts for six consecutive years, Genesis10 puts thousands of consultants and employees to work across the United States every year in contract, contract-for-hire, and permanent placement roles. With more than 300 active clients, Genesis10 provides access to many of the Fortune 100 firms and a variety of mid-market organizations across the full spectrum of industry verticals.
For contract roles, Genesis10 offers the benefits listed below. If this is a perm-placement opportunity, our recruiter can talk you through the unique benefits offered for that particular client. Benefits of Working with Genesis10:
* Access to hundreds of clients, most who have been working with Genesis10 for 5-20+ years.
* The opportunity to have a career-home in Genesis10; many of our consultants have been working exclusively with Genesis10 for years.
* Access to an experienced, caring recruiting team (more than 7 years of experience, on average.)
* Behavioral Health Platform
* Medical, Dental, Vision
* Health Savings Account
* Voluntary Hospital Indemnity (Critical Illness & Accident)
* Voluntary Term Life Insurance
* 401K
* Sick Pay (for applicable states/municipalities)
* Commuter Benefits (Dallas, NYC, SF and Illinois)
For multiple years running, Genesis10 has been recognized as a Top Staffing Firm in the U.S., as a Best Company for Work-Life Balance, as a Best Company for Career Growth, for Diversity, and for Leadership, amongst others. To learn more and to view all our available career opportunities, please visit us at our website.
Genesis10 is an Equal Opportunity Employer. Candidates will receive consideration without regard to their race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, disability, or status as a protected veteran.
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Genesis10
life insurance, 401(k)
Feb 16, 2026