Technical Product Owner

For our offices based on Málaga, we are looking for a high experienced Product Owner for one of our biggest client in the banking sector.

What would be your role?

• Leads the proposal for a specific process/area for impulse the digital transformation looking for efficiencies in the processes and adding value to users.
• Must have a clear vision of how the user experience should be in any digital channel and is able to focus the user stories always looking for the optimal user experience.
• Lead the translation of user stories into detailed technical requirements and technical tasks to feed developer squad teams, providing a systems perspective and identifying impacts and dependencies. Ensures the applicable definition of ready / definition of done requirements get documented accordingly.
• Support stakeholders to prioritize user stories and technical items that, defects coming from L0/L1/L2 IT Operation group and tickets requiring L3 support (based on criticality and customer impact).
• Support the development squad teams to rebalance effort between user story development and defect/ticket resolution, on a daily basis.
• Facilitate critical dependencies management within the IT product and across products.
• Support the development of and the execution of acceptance tests based on acceptance criteria, coordinating all test activities, and ensuring that each story meets acceptance criteria.
• Continuously update the delivery team in case of business changes, in coordination with Business Product Owners and other peer Technical Product Owners.
• Approve the final release plan, in accordance with agreed priorities and dependencies, in collaboration with the Release Manager.
• Analyse and report delivery, progress, risks and opportunities.
• Ensure that the technical debt is properly managed, with the support of SW Architecture leads.

Requirements

What are we looking for?

• +6 years of relevant IT work experience, including experience in user management, scope changes and digital channel projects.
• Proven track record and experience in developing IT processes and solutions, successfully executing programs that meet the objectives of excellence in a dynamic organization environment.
• Must have a "can-do" attitude and strong communication skills.
• Great leadership to lead and motivate great development teams to a common goal.
• Practiced ability to analyse, develop and implement complex programming solutions.
• Ability to execute test plans, create test cases test data and contribute to appropriate software (including programming languages) development life cycle methodology and application of specialized business.
• Self-starter, works with minimal supervision and adapts well in a fast-paced Agile environment. Experience with Agile methodologies (Scrum, Kanban) and DevOps.
• Participates as a team member and fosters teamwork by inter-group coordination within the modules of the project.
• Effectively collaborates and communicates with the stakeholders and ensure client satisfaction.

Job-specific competencies:

• Front End Technologies as Angular, Node, API development and strong integrations view.
• 5 to 8 years’ of experience working with technical teams in full stack development, including: data modeling, object oriented programming, cross platform development (C++, Java, Objective-C, Swift, JavaScript – one or more languages); implementation, integration and enhancement of 3rd party APIs; browser development, testing and debugging tool, Java Script.
• Knowledge of unit testing, performance testing, and client-side end-to-end testing (UI testing) and associated frameworks and tools. Experience writing unit tests.
• Working experience with Relational SQL and NoSQL databases, data acquisition and data warehouse related services.
• Experience on digital channels (web and/or apps) projects, transformation or evolution programs.
• Experience in large transformation programs within banking clients.
• Experience in Corporate and Investment Banking products will be very well valuable.