Senior Product Owner - Policy as Code

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Job Description: At Bank of America, we are guided by a common purpose to help make financial lives better through the power of every connection. We do this by driving Responsible Growth and delivering for our clients, teammates, communities and shareholders every day. Being a Great Place to Work and providing a culture of caring is core to how we drive Responsible Growth. We are intentional about fostering an inclusive workplace where every teammate has the opportunity to succeed, build a career and contribute to our shared success. This includes attracting and developing exceptional talent, recognizing and rewarding performance, and supporting our teammates’ physical, emotional, and financial wellness through affordable, competitive and flexible benefits. We value the unique perspectives individuals bring from all backgrounds and career paths - whether shaped by military service, community college education, or a wide range of work and life experiences. These journeys foster resilience, leadership and innovation, strengthening our workforce and positively impact the communities we serve. Bank of America is committed to an in-office culture that supports collaboration, engagement, and career development. Our approach includes clear in-office expectations, while providing an appropriate level of flexibility based on role-specific responsibilities and business needs. At Bank of America, you can build a successful career with opportunities to learn, grow, and make an impact. Join us! Position Summary: This individual owns the Policy-as-Code Center of Excellence and Service as a product on behalf of CTI Governance. Prioritizes the policy backlog, makes key framework decisions, accepts deliverables, and leads the CoE on an ongoing basis. Establishes standards, review/approval workflows, exception governance, and evidence practices that shift governance from manual approval gates to automated, audit-defensible enablement across private and public cloud. ​ Key Responsibilities Prioritize policy work, make key framework decisions, and formally accept deliverables on behalf of CTI Governance, ensuring the CoE and Service evolve as a managed product. Required Qualifications: Experience with the following: Technical product ownership — proven backlog prioritization, roadmap ownership, and deliverable acceptance for a platform/service product. Governance & process design — building standards, review/approval workflows, exception governance, and evidence practices in a controlled environment. Working knowledge of Policy-as-Code — OPA/Terraform guardrail concepts sufficient to make framework trade-off decisions (need not code them). Cross-org stakeholder leadership — driving alignment across CTI Governance, Infra Automation, GIS, CDS, Networking, Storage, and Enterprise Architecture. KPI definition & executive reporting — defining CoE performance measures and reporting to leadership 8+ years of experience in Product Owner or similar type role Desired Qualifications: Financial-services / regulated-environment experience (OCC-supervised context). Familiarity with One Platform as CTI's single infrastructure deployment gateway. Exposure to AI in PaC work streams (test-case generation, AIOps) per stakeholder feedback. SAFe/Agile product-owner certification. Experience reconciling common controls across private and public cloud. ​ Job Description: This job is responsible for maximizing the value for one or more products. Key responsibilities include working with stakeholders to understand their needs, and with product managers or specialists to ensure they are aligning on priorities, communicating the product vision and roadmap to stakeholders and the team, and driving user adoption. Job expectations include ensuring delivery of products that meet client expectations, including features, security, availability, resiliency, timelines and costs. Responsibilities: Generates the vision and roadmap for the product to align with strategic direction for the business or technology domain Communicates the product vision and roadmap to stakeholders and the team, and drives user adoption Collaborates with stakeholders to understand their needs, problems, and aligns them on priorities Prioritizes and creates work for multiple teams and works with cross-functional teams Creates, prioritizes and refines stories in the product backlog Reviews and accepts stories and makes decisions regarding scope and requirements Partners with the team to ensure that optimum value is obtained through technology and through subject-matter expertise of the business Skills: Agile Practices Influence Result Orientation Solution Delivery Process Technical Strategy Development Analytical Thinking Collaboration DevOps Practices Risk Management Stakeholder Management Application Development Business Acumen Data Management Financial Management Solution Design Shift: 1st shift (United States of America) Hours Per Week: 40