Technical Product Owner - Sanctions
On-siteToronto, Ontario, Canada
Job Summary
Own the product backlog, roadmap, and delivery outcomes for sanctions screening and SWIFT message processing initiatives. Lead requirements gathering to produce detailed HLRs, User Stories, Business Rules, and Process Flows for SWIFT MT/MX scanning and integration. Manage the full requirements lifecycle from discovery through implementation and validation while partnering with Compliance and Risk teams to embed sanctions controls into payment workflows. Act as primary liaison between business, compliance, technology, and operations to drive consensus across competing priorities. Apply AI tools to accelerate backlog management, documentation, and analysis. Support QA with acceptance criteria and defect validation.
Required Qualifications
- 5+ years of Technical Product Ownership or BSA experience in an Agile environment
- 5+ years operating within sanctions regulatory compliance and high-value payments ecosystems
- solid grasp of the regulatory landscape, settlement flows, and the compliance controls that govern them
- Advanced knowledge of SWIFT MT/MX and ISO 20022 message standards (pain.001, pacs.004, pacs.008, pacs.009, camt.054, camt.110, camt.111, and related types)
- Proven experience delivering sanctions screening and AML compliance requirements within payment platforms
- Strong Agile/SAFe delivery track record with ability to influence diverse stakeholder groups
- Hands-on experience with AI-assisted delivery tools (GitHub Copilot, Visual Studio Code)
- Exceptional communication, critical thinking, and problem-solving skills
- SWIFT MT/MX
- ISO 20022
- Sanctions & AML
- Product Backlog Management
- Agile/SAFe
- Stakeholder Management
- System Integration Analysis
- AI-Assisted Delivery
- JIRA
- Confluence
- Agile Methodology
- Business Data Analysis
- Business Process Modeling
- Commercial Acumen
- Communication
- Critical Thinking
- Decision Making
- Group Problem Solving
- Interpersonal Relationship Management
- Requirements Analysis
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