Product Owner

Job Description:

Responsibilities:

Backlog ownership: Work with the development pod as Product Owner

Execution: Providing vision and direction to the Agile development team, and other stakeholders and creating / managing requirements

Prioritization: Plan and prioritize the product feature backlog and development for the product

Flow: Ensure that the team always has an adequate amount of tasks to work on

Collaboration: Work with Development Managers, Solution Architect, Delivery, and the development team(s) on estimation in order to deliver the project or program

Technical: Work with Solution Architects to define the technical solutions and strategy for the product features

Quality: Work with QAs to understand, document, triage and fix live issues or bugs

Planning: Provide backlog management, iteration planning, and elaboration of the user stories

Expertise: Gain and maintain a deep understanding of cloud governance-based business processes and workload deployments providing focus and prioritisation to product development processes

Product Management: Contribute to product strategy, proposition development, prioritisation and release planning

Minimum Requirements:

5+ years of Product ownership or related experience, with a significant part of it working on Cloud and SaaS technologies

Outstanding collaboration, communication, listening, presentation and leadership skills

Comfortable being hands-on in a fast-paced, ambiguous and rapidly changing environment

Strong champion of Agile product development and tooling

Exceptional road mapping skills and product domain knowledge

Deep analytical, problem solving and communication skills

Highly organised with great project management skills

Numerate and data driven decision-maker

Self-starter, able to work with minimal guidance and adapt to changing requirements

Desired:

Experience of different project management tools and methodologies

Interest in new technologies and development processes

Interest in SaaS & Cloud computing

AWS, Azure or GCP certification preferred.