Technical Product Owner - Business Banking

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ING Hubs Romania offers 130 services in software development, data management, non-financial risk & compliance, audit, and retail operations to 24 ING units worldwide, with the help of over 1700 high-performing engineers, risk, and operations professionals.

We started out in 2015 as ING’s software development hub – a distinct entity from ING Bank Romania – then steadily expanded our range to include more services and competencies.

Now we provide borderless services with bank-wide capabilities and operate from two locations: Bucharest and Cluj-Napoca.

Our tech capabilities remain the core of our business, with more than 1500 colleagues active in Data Management, Touchpoint Channels & Integration, Core Banking, and Global Products.

We enjoy a flexible way of working and a highly collaborative environment, where fair and constructive feedback is encouraged.

For us, impact isn't a perk. It's the driver of our work.

We are guided and rewarded by a shared desire to make the world a better place, one innovative solution at a time. Our colleagues make it their job to do impactful things and they love doing it in good company. Do you?

The Mission

The Small and Medium Enterprises (SME) Project has the aim to digitally transform the value proposition and service model offered to our Business Banking clients at group level. The aim is to provide a foundation for global development of solutions and features for Business Banking clients. This will enable us to unlock synergies between countries in the digital transformation and avoid duplication going forward.

We are looking for an experienced Technical Product Owner to lead our development squads and facilitate seamless journeys for our users. This is a joint effort between several ING units and you are going to be part of a distributed international and multi-cultural team. Each of our squads is responsible for some of the components of our solution and all contribute to the overall vision of building a scalable, secure and performant journey. There is plenty of work, but also a fun and challenging road ahead.

Your day to day*

Even if you’ll start your day from the comfort of your home or drink your morning coffee in our office’s garden, your day will be quite similar when comes to tasks. Here are your daily responsibilities:

• Lead your squad’s discovery and delivery roadmap: order and prioritize product backlog feature and stories, identify issues and mitigate solutions.
• Partnering with the stakeholders, Product Lead and peers (representatives of other squads) to create and maintain a product backlog according to business value.
• Work closely together with the domain/enterprise architect, technical leads, Feature Engineers and other Product Owners, by contributing to the tech strategy & vision within the customer domain for Retail and Business Banking.
• Clarify technical solution requirements within multiple projects.
• Providing the purpose, context and direction to the team from both business and technical point of view, always taking into consideration the product goal and mission.
• Providing an active role in mitigating impediments impacting successful team completion of Re-lease/Sprint Goals.
• Write clear Acceptance Criteria for both business and technical items, write tests cases and validate implemented solutions.
• Manage cross-squad dependencies to ensure an end-to-end delivery and support them in the delivery process.
• Deepen team’s knowledge to contribute to a rewarding customer experience.

*Considering that you’ll work closely with other teams from the ING group, occasional international travel might be required

What you’ll bring to the team

• Experience: At least 5 years of experience working as a Product Owner / Technical Project Manager in a software development environment.
• Tech stack/ Knowledge of the following concepts/ technologies:

-Solid Agile experience with SCRUM and / or Kanban methodologies.

-Familiar with solutions built on Microservices using Java, JavaScript.

-Experience in System design (designing microservices architectures).

-Understanding of web security principles and practices.

-Proven ability to define a set of requirements that pinpoint business challenges and identify technical and business changes required to address them.

-Ability to communicate clearly and concisely across different software development and the business teams.

-Experience in supporting/rolling out software.

-Excellent communication skills, pro-active and easy to approach attitude.

-A person that takes timely and informative decisions.

-Availability to interact with different cultures and switch context in short term.

• Foreign languages: English (advanced)
• Education: Bachelor’s Degree (or higher) in an IT related field