Capability / Product Owner (Dublin)

Capability Owner/Product Owner - Financial Services

• Contract 
• Dublin - 3 days a week on site 
• Must have rights to work in Ireland

Role Description:

For a leading financial services client, we are seeking a Product Owner who 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-depth knowledge of lean agile processes and principle
• Hands-on DevOps experience developing and delivering products in a collaborative, lean, agile team environment