Product Owner Squad Accounts Professional Clients

Job description

Function description

1. Product Owner of the squad
According to Scrum methodology, the Agile Product Owner represents both stakeholders and the voice of the customers capturing their expectations, preferences and aversions. Along with the Scrum Master and the Development Team he/she leads and organises the Squad.

The Agile Product Owner is in charge of expressing and prioritizing the needs of the product using a Product Backlog.

The Agile Product Owner has to ensure the Team's perfect understanding of the product and the whole consistency of each Sprint.

The product owner motivates the squad, helps them to organise the work and facilitiates problem solving in the team.

2. Project Management related to Accounts Professional Clients
Occasionally the product owner will also take on the role of Opus Owner for Accounts Professional Clients related topics (cf project manager role)

Design phase and project methodology:

• build the product's big picture including its roadmap and translate this picture towards the development team
• clarify the need and draft the product's key functional specifications according to the agile methodology
• iteration planning and priorities definition to ensure the proper content delivery
• defines the priorities and monitor the Product Backlog, thus he continuously prioritizes the key business needs
• make sure that the different stakeholders become and stay aligned on the product to be delivered

Project follow-up and support:

• initiate a priority management approach, ensure the product consistency and quality
• actively participate into Scrum ceremonies (agile retrospectives, demo, test labs…)
• is the decision maker or has the authority to arbitrate on delivered functionalities
• conduct Sprints Backlog live adjustments and follow-up

Required experience
At least 5 years of relevant experience

Technical experience

Preferable

Functional understanding of Banking systems, ideally daily banking, both mainframe and distributed

Business experience

Mandatory

• Expertise in agile methodologies and backlog management
• Product Management
• Stakeholder Management
• Project Management
• Daily banking products and services

Preferable

• Accounts for Professional Clients products and processes (Corporates, SME, independants, etc)

Soft Skills

• Ability to see the overall picture (helicopter view) - strategic thinking
• Analytical mind – conceptual thinking
• Negotiation and persuasion skills
• Structured approach
• Quality-minded and eye for detail
• Goal-oriented
• Open to change
• Leadership
• Team management