Product Owner

Our client is a trusted partner in the financial-banking sector in Germany, both in the public and private sectors who offers services for over 150,000 banking workstations and for more than 4,500 employees. It covers over 60% of banking sector in Germany.

Responsibilities:

• Drive Impact -> Your expertise will play a pivotal role in consistently identify, understand, and document the business needs in a core banking project with impact in multiple other banking areas.
• Bridge Business and IT -> You will facilitate and moderate the interactions between business and IT stakeholders while being part of a mixed team consisting of Business Analysts, Developers, UI/UX Designer, Customer Support and a Squad Owner.
• **Streamline Requirements ->**You will document the functional and non-functional requirements, define the specific context, activity, and entity-relationship diagrams and accommodate different dependencies.
• Leverage Expertise -> You will manage and prioritize the product backlog for development: write and estimate user stories with the development team. Contribute to milestones as needed and ensure that the acceptance criteria are defined accordingly. The project offers you the opportunity to take ownership.
• Strategic Shaping -> You will manage the product roadmap: propose implementation roadmap to the customer, understand business objectives for the roadmap, guide stakeholders and challenge priorities.
• Ensure Outstanding Quality -> You will perform functional testing actions.
• Nurture Knowledge -> You will train, mentor, and coach other Product Owners, enabling knowledge and know-how scalability at organizational level.

Requirements

Mandatory:

• 3+ years’ of experience working in a similar role
• Very good ability to understand the business context
• Experience in applying agile methodologies
• Good communication skills, critical thinking and problem-solving skills
• Ability to manage change and work in a dynamic environment
• Proven client facing and stakeholder management experience, manifesting focus on customer needs and business value
• Spoken and written fluency in English and German

Is highly appreciated:

• Technical knowledge (i.e. HTTP methods, Postman, SQL, Sequence Diagram)