Product Owner

The Role: Product Owner

Responsibilities:

• Domain expertise in Financial sector (Banking/Insurance/Brokerage)
• Own the Product and Work with customers to define Product strategy, Developing product ideas with stakeholders.
• Defining the features of the product according to customer requirements.
• Leading the development process by creating a product roadmap based on this vision.
• Serving as the main point of contact between Engineering teams and stakeholders.
• Review product features at all stages of product creation including design and development.
• Organising and ranking the items in the product backlog according to requirements.
• Helping the scrum/product development team achieve each sprints goals.
• Before the product is released, each iteration is adjusted and improved.
• Locating areas that want improvement.
• Informing stakeholders and customers about the products status.

Basic Qualifications:

• 10+ years of related work experience in Finance Domain as Product Owner
• Excellent understanding of the Scrum and Agile Software Development Methodologies.
• Great decision making skills. The product owner, a senior member of a product development team, is accountable for making a number of decisions every day.
• Practical experience with product development architecture.
• Strong knowledge of how to employ analytical tools.
• Ability to prioritise the product development process.
• Excellent understanding of the principles of user-centred design.
• Excellent communication, both written and spoken, for collaborating with different teams.
• Working well in huge teams.
• Knowledge of design quality guidelines.
• Technical background with knowledge of software development and web technologies.
• Good organisational skills.
• Creative and innovative thinking.

Preferred Qualifications:

• PMI or Prince Certification Product Management Certification
• SAFe PMPO certification a plus,