Expert Product Owner

• Works within the agile process and is the final authority for decisions regarding priority, business value, and functionality for all the work done by the agile development team.
• Typically supervises several business analysts.
• Possesses an in-depth knowledge of the goals and desired objectives of the project.
• Interacts and validates requirements with the business.
• Propose solutions by combining IT tools and business process refactoring or improvements based on an in-depth understanding of a specific business domain (see skills).
• Creates, maintains, prioritizes, and sequences the product backlog based on business value or return on investment.
• Creates user stories and acceptance tests from themes and features granular enough for a single sprint.
• Is involved in the decision-making process related to user stories scheduling into sprints.
• Participates in project planning and daily stand-up meetings (SCRUM).
• Participates in retrospectives, sprint and release planning, demos and other Scrum-related meetings.
• Reviews deliverable and demonstrable product version/software functionalities after every sprint.
• Organizes live demonstration of the product at the end of the sprint.
• Facilitates the acceptance of the product by the business.
• Develops and maintains standards for testing.
• Provides progress reporting.
• Assists with internal and external communication by improving transparency and dissemination of information.
• Assists with prioritization and resolution of defects/bugs.
• May perform the role of Scrum master.

Knowledge and skills:

• Experience with large, enterprise-level multi-user Information Systems.
• Experience in Agile.
• Excellent knowledge of agile toolbox (i.e. JIRA, Confluence, BigPicture, Gliffy, Balsamiq, etc.).
• Excellent knowledge of Application Management Lifecycle.
• Excellent knowledge of web application security
• Rapid self-starting capability.
• Excellent interpersonal and communication skills.
• Excellent knowledge broker.
• Delegation and decision-making skills

Specific Expertise:

• at least 10 years of experience in project management with modern project management methodology (e.g: Prince2, PM2, PMI, Scrum,..)
• at least 10 years of experience with MS Project
• at least 10 years of experience with relational databases (e.g: Oracle)
• at least 10 years of experience in project management for projects using web technologies (e.g. Java, J2EE and Spring framework or PHP)
• at least 7 years of experience with Agile software development methodologies
• at least 5 years of experience with GIT
• at least 3 years of experience with UML
• at least 2 years of experience with Kibana or PowerBI
• at least 2 years of experience in project management for projects using web services (REST and SOAP)
• at least 2 years of experience with Jira and confluence
• at least 2 years of experience in project management for projects using Sonarqube
• at least 2 years of experience in project management for projects using Angular 2
• at least 1 year of experience with DevOps

Certifications & Standards:

Mandatory certification (one of):

• Certified Scrum Product Owner (CSPO),
• Professional Scrum Product Owner (PSPO),
• SAFe Product Owner or equivalent.

Optional certifications:

• ITIL certification above ITIL foundation (or equivalent).
• Project management certification such as Prince2, PM² or equivalent