Product Owner

Our mission is to help people integrate technology into everyday life and to enable innovation through technology. We believe working in close cooperation with our clients and employees is the key to success; this means we offer people the best working environment in order to achieve the best results. We love entrepreneurial spirits and encourage people around us to be proactive and make the best decisions not only for business, but for their own personal development.

Our nearshore Romanian offices are located in Bucharest and Iasi and, with over 5000 team members at group level, we make sure we are always close to our customers.

Cegeka has an exciting opportunity for a Product Owner to join us in Bucharest.

General activities:

• Works with IT counterparts and business partners to understand their new/changing business goals, how they are being implemen ted through business processes work on solutioning the needs into IT. Demonstrate new functionality to showcase achievements;
• As a Product Owner create and maintain a Prioritized Backlog with at least 3 sprints worth of Ready for Dev user stories. Is eag er to mature and perfect requirements to unleash development productivity/throughput; allows for sprint delivery with minimum to no need for clarification/rework.
• Gauges the req uired level of backlog detail based on feature team needs;
• Creates and maintains detailed and well written Epics, Features and Users Stories up to date in TFS in order to have consiste nt communication with all interested parties;
• Product Ownership: Understands and is able to explain the Business Goals being implemented by your feature team in each release;
• Partner with the Scrum team members, program managers, solution architects and business on transforming Product Vision into P rod uct Releases: Facilitates Releases’ target scope and prioritization discussions with various forums by balancing business needs & time to market with known constraints;
• Communicate with precision: Crafts high quality and detailed diagrams, reports and presentations as needed. Masters verbal commu nication and presentations in various forums;
• Able to work in flexible hours to accommodate time zone differences (Bucharest, Austin, Ireland, Hyderabad, Porto Alegre).

Required Skills, Behaviors and Experience:

• Inquisitiveness, enthusiasm and willingness to learn new products/tech stacks’;
• Experience working as a Business Systems Analyst / Product Owner;
• Impeccable attention to detail and excellent communication skills;
• 6+ years of relevant experience;
• Proven track record specifying detailed system requirements/user stories;
• Strong technical background allowing the candidate to successfully engage in the design of solutions comprising different technologies: .Net and MS SQL Server.
• Ability to handle multiple projects areas with changing priorities and meet challenging deadlines in a fast paced environment.

Desired Skills / Experience:

• Certified Product Owner Credential;
• Understanding of SOA principles and best practices:
  • Development of enterprise services using SOAP, REST based APIs
  • Experience working with XPath, XSLT and other XML APIs
  • Experienced with Software Test Automation.
• Experiencing developing applications with .NET and SOA
• Experience using Microsoft TFS for requirements management

What we offer:

• Flexible working environment within a dynamic team;
• We leave you room to balance your work and private life - 22 days as annual vacation + additional vacation days according to the internal policies;
  Access to various training programs (soft and hard skills trainings, according to the internal policies);
• Continous learning and improvement activities (reading groups, competency centers, video sessions on Pluralsight, Events: process related-Agile/Scrum/Kanban, coding oriented TDD Kata);
• Private Medical Subscription, Sanador/Medlife/Regina Maria Clinic - you can also register your family members at a preferential price;
• Free Gym Subscription at Pescariu Sports & Spa (fitness, aerobic, pool) – according to the internal policies;
• Preferential rates to 7Card subscription;
• Bookster and Pluralsight access;
• Financial support for the birth of your child or unhappy events (for first and second-degree family;
• Benefit Online platform access, with a monthly allowance from which you can choose to invest in:

• Meal tickets;
• Professional courses and development programs;
• Holiday packages, gifts;
• Insurance and private pension packages;
• Cultural and entertainment activities;
• Special offers from +2000 providers: vouchers, Telecom & Electro IT, private pensions and insurance, Sport & Wellness, restaurants, hobby and smart experience, medical services.

• Team events (teambuildings, team hangouts, Christmas party, etc.);
• Long term career development programs;
• Being part of a growing organization with Belgian roots.