Capability Owner/Product Owner - Financial Services
* Contract
* Dublin - 3 days aweek on site
* Must have rights to work in Ireland
Role Description:
For a leading financial services client, we are seeking aProduct Ownerwho will serve as the lead partner on the development team /squad. The team is responsible for the oversight and delivery of technical and functional capabilities of a product.
The product owner is the leader of the squad who has the decision-making authority and end to end accountability for delivery of the goals of the squad.
Responsibilities:
* Manages communicated stakeholder expectations on what functionality the product will have and how the product will be released to the end user community.
* Frequently shares the product vision with the team.
* Makes decisions throughout the development of the product and is ultimately the final decision maker on the functionality of the product.
* Defines the user stories for the product, owns product backlog and prioritization of the items in it.
* Elaborate stories, acceptance criteria, embracing lean, test driven development, agile practices.
* Defines and documents the product’s release strategy.
* Sequences user stories based on their contribution to the business’ strategic goals.
* Can change user stories and their sequencing prior to every sprint.
* Leads the team planning during program increment planning sessions.
* Is responsible for the approval of changes to the release plan and sprint plans.
* Decides whether or not to move forward with the product, accepting or rejecting user stories.
* Defect management.
* Responsible for providing status details to the Capability Manager
* Serves as the overall leader of the squad and therefore leads rituals such as daily standup, iteration planning, scoping sessions and retrospectives, along with ensuring any blockers are removed.
* Responsible for the breakdown of new requirements to ensure lean delivery.
* Provide an active role in mitigating impediments impacting successful team completion of Release/Sprint Goals.
* Collaborate and communicate continuously, effectively and directly, with engineers, designers, business stakeholders, BA’s, SME’s and testers.
Skills:
* Product strategy, planning, and development
* Strong leadership abilities
* Strong understanding of technology
* User story creation and elaboration, and high-level design documentation
* Sharp analytical and problem-solving skills
* Excellent organizational and time management skills
* Outstanding collaboration, communication, presentation, negotiation and leadership skills
* Highly motivated self-starter with a willingness to learn and a create thinker
* Ability to adapt very quickly to an ever changing environment
* In-depthknowledge of lean agile processes and principle
* Hands-on DevOps experience developing and delivering products in a collaborative, lean, agile team environment
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