Product Owner Financial - Cape Town Verfied

Salary Negotiable Cape Town, Western Cape Cape Town, Western Cape more than 14 days ago 15-01-2017 8:42:15 AM
21-01-2017 7:27:25 AM
Function: Product and Change Delivery.

Role Purpose: Enable the business to achieve its goals by delivering product lines. Deliver great products on time, on budget and to quality.

Key Accountabilities

Be responsible for delivering the road-map for strategic products
Work with the Product Delivery Manager and Product Manager(s) to translate the road-map this into appropriate backlog(s) and user stories
Deliver products using the appropriate agile project management methodology , learning & iterating frequently
Drive and review business requirements (including Proposition design, customer journeys etc.)
Write story level functional specifications and corresponding acceptance criteria
Involve the team to provide development estimates
Ensure adequate sign off on specifications from relevant stakeholders
Creates Product Backlog(s) from the business requirements and priorities
Manage inter development team dependencies, signs off and agree to BAU releases
Run a quality process around product delivery to minimise the risk of customer detriment
Lead and direct product owners appropriately in the creation of user stories
Assists project manager or stakeholders with the development of project initiation documents
Contribute to the improvement of the Product Delivery team’s aggregate level of capability
Contribute to the improvement the Product Delivery processes and ways of working with the wider business
Works with Product Delivery team during sprints to continuously clarify user stories or provide context to ensure all stories can be developed without impediment
Work with the CTO to participate in the collaborative, dynamic planning process – prioritizing the work that needs to be done against the capacity and capability of the team
Identify, escalate and manage risks
Work with key business stakeholders to ensure non-product functions are integrated into initiatives
Matrix-managing a multidisciplinary team
Ensure long term sustainability of the products through collaboration and with technical architects

Qualifications and Experience

Under-graduate/graduate level education
Experience establishing, improving and driving adherence to processes
Experience of software development and product / major feature launches (preferably in Financial Services)
Experience of ‘bringing the company with you’, particularly departments not in the same reporting line
Strong agile experience
Experience of producing high quality requirements documents
Must be able to garner respect from his/her team and be willing to get their hands dirty to get the job done
Must be able to ensure Agile/Scrum concepts and principles are adhered to, must be able to be a voice of reason and authority, make the tough calls.
Salary : Negotiable dependent on experience + company benefits.

SA Citizens only.

Job Type: Full-time

Required education:
Diploma/Certificate

Required experience:
Agile/Scrum: 3 years
Software Development: 3 years