Engineering Product Owner

Role

As a member of our team you will dive head-first into creating innovative solutions that advance businesses and careers. You will join an inspiring and curious team of technologists dedicated to improving the design, analytics, development, coding, testing and application programming that goes into creating high quality software and new products.

You will be tasked with keeping the team and other key stakeholders up to speed on the progress of what’s being developed. Coming in with an understanding of the importance of end-to-end software development-such as Agile/Scrum frameworks-is key. Best of all, you’ll be working with and sharing ideas, information and innovation.

Day to day responsibilities

• Creates and maintain a Prioritized Backlog with at least 3 sprints worth of Ready for Dev user stories;
• Builds solid understanding of the users, market place, competition and current and future capabilities of his/her domain;
• Matures and perfects requirements to unleash development productivity/ throughput;
• Allows for sprint delivery with minimum to no need for clarification/rework;
• Creates and maintain a detailed and well written MVPs, features and users stories up to date in TFS in order to have consistent communication with all interested parties;
• Fosters an open, trusted channel of communication with the business partners and actively seeks understanding of future trends in the domain from multiple sources;
• Understands and is able to explain the Business Goals being implemented by the feature team in each release;
• Facilitates Releases’ target scope and prioritization discussions with various forums by balancing business needs & time to market with known constraints.

Skills and competencies required

• At least 4 years’ experience working as a Business Systems Analyst or Product Owner;
• Ability to handle multiple projects areas with changing priorities, deal with ambiguity and meet challenging deadlines in a fast-paced environment;
• Able to break down project description into MVP, and feature sets;
• Able to create a realistic release plan from the defined MVPs;
• Able to break down large complex features into smaller sets of requirements for delivery;
• Ability to foster collaboration and communication between developers, testing, and other members of the product team;
• Familiarity with scrum, lean, and extreme agile development principles;
• Able to be a leader/role model for the development team.

Nice to have

• Certified Product Owner Credential;
• Experience using Microsoft TFS for requirements management;
• Understanding of SOA design principles and best practices;
• Experiencing developing applications with .NET, Java, SOA and Oracle;
• Understanding of CI/CD principles;
• Hands on experience creating, validating, debugging and consuming XML and JSON.