Are you ready to join a growing team? CTG is seeking to fill a Product Owner I opening for our client in Buffalo, NY. Location: Buffalo, NY Duration: 6 months Overview: The Product Owner represents the voice of the customer and stakeholders to ensure product value and alignment with business strategy. This role defines product vision and roadmap, manages the backlog, anticipates client needs, and serves as primary communicator between stakeholders and the Agile team. The Product Owner will work with a dedicated team to deliver cloud data infrastructure, secure file transfer, and related work supporting a new vendor cloud-hosted SaaS implementation. Strong communication skills and a technical background are essential. Primary Responsibilities: Define and own product vision, roadmap, and backlog. Represent customer needs, write user stories, and specify acceptance criteria. Partner with delivery teams to ensure progress and transparency. Collaborate across teams to align on customer journey and dependent backlogs. Apply design thinking and analytics to improve product outcomes. Support compliance with risk, regulatory, and audit standards. Scope of Responsibilities: Key role in setting strategic direction, identifying new opportunities, and working with senior leadership and Agile teams. Supervisory/Managerial Responsibilities: No direct management; leads through influence, ownership, and accountability. Education and Experience Required: Bachelor’s degree and 4+ years business, analytical, technical, and/or product experience; or 8+ years combined higher education/work experience with at least 4 years relevant experience. Agile delivery (Scrum preferred) in a Product Owner role. Experience with vendor cloud-hosted SaaS and cloud data environments (Azure preferred). Commercial banking experience. Education and Experience Preferred: Ability to prioritize across competing needs in fast-changing environments. Experience applying Design Thinking principles. Knowledge of Agile/Lean practices and product design best practices. Experience with UX collaboration and digital capability development. Strong communication and decision-making skills. Excellent verbal and written English communication skills and the ability to interact professionally with a diverse group are required. CTG does not accept unsolicited resumes from headhunters, recruitment agencies, or fee-based recruitment services for this role. To Apply: To be considered, please apply directly to this requisition using the link provided. For additional information, please contact Rebecca Olan at Rebecca.Olan@ctg.com. Kindly forward this to any other interested parties. Thank you! About CTG CTG, a Cegeka company, is at the forefront of digital transformation, providing IT and business solutions that accelerate project momentum and deliver desired value. Over nearly 60 years, we have earned a reputation as a faster and more reliable, results-driven partner. Our vision is to be an indispensable partner to our clients and the preferred career destination for digital and technology experts. CTG leverages the expertise of over 9,000 team members in 19 countries to provide innovative solutions. Together, we operate across the Americas, Europe, and India, working in close cooperation with over 3,000 clients in many of today's highest-growth industries. For more information, visit www.ctg.com. Our culture is a direct result of the people who work at CTG, the values we hold, and the actions we take. In other words, our people define our culture. It's a living, breathing thing that is renewed every day through the ways we engage with each other, our clients, and our communities. Part of our mission is to cultivate a workplace that attracts and develops the best people, reflected by our recognition as a Great Place to Work Certified™ company across many of our global operations. CTG will consider for employment all qualified applicants including those with criminal histories in a manner consistent with the requirements of all applicable local, state, and federal laws. CTG is an Equal Opportunity Employer. CTG will assure equal opportunity and consideration to all applicants and employees in recruitment, selection, placement, training, benefits, compensation, promotion, transfer, and release of individuals without regard to race, creed, religion, color, national origin, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity and gender expression, age, disability, marital or veteran status, citizenship status, or any other discriminatory factors as required by law. CTG is fully committed to promoting employment opportunities for members of protected classes.