Proxy Product Owner (1274)

 

Recruiter:

Rosstone Consulting

Job Ref:

ROS00296

Date posted:

Sunday, March 28, 2021

Location:

, South Africa

Salary:

Negotiable


SUMMARY:
The Role:

We have a 12 month contract for a Proxy Product Owner.

  • Manage 2 technical full stack Java developer teams (4 people) as a Product Owner to fulfil the prioritised requirements for 2 applications using the Agile methodology.
  • Collaborate with international Business Product Owners and colleagues across multiple sites...

    POSITION INFO:
    The Role:

    We have a 12 month contract for a Proxy Product Owner.

    • Manage 2 technical full stack Java developer teams (4 people) as a Product Owner to fulfil the prioritised requirements for 2 applications using the Agile methodology.
    • Collaborate with international Business Product Owners and colleagues across multiple sites/locations.
    • Give structure to workshops and meetings to help lead and facilitate the teamâ??s agile way of working. This includes facilitating discussion, decision making, and conflict resolution.
    • Guiding the team on how to get the most out of self-organization teams/Agile, i.e. â??closing the loopâ? and â??getting things doneâ?.
    • Creation of Product Backlogs with business stakeholders using JIRA.
    • Monitoring team development progress and ensure that user stories are completed on time.
    • Facilitate requirement clarification with business.
    • First contact person for business for errors, issues, and new functionalities (feasibility testing).
    • Refinement and prioritization of Product Backlog Items with business stakeholders using JIRA.
    • Ensuring of the agreed quality (Team-DoR/-DoD and Stakeholder-Requirements).
    • Assist business users with testing of the 2 applications.
    • Approval of the developed Product Increments (Sprint Review).
    • Budget steering, forecasting and planning (resources, infrastructure, licenses).
    Skills and Experience:

    Technical skills:

    • Leadership skills and knowledge of facilitation, situational awareness, conflict resolution, continual improvement, empowerment, and increasing transparency.
    • Knowledge of numerous well documented patterns and techniques for filling in the intentional gaps left in the Scrum approach.
    • Business process-related and IT-technical understanding of product scope (including operational know-how).
    • Competence in the conception of a product through to the definition and evaluation of requirements at user story level.
    • Agile mindset and know-how (of agile processes and principles)
    • Management, Stakeholder and escalation competence.
    • Planning ability (business and financial) and competence in problem solving
    • Decision-making ability for prioritization.
      Strong IT Software development skills not required, but would be beneficial:
    • JAVA EE / JAVA (Java 10)
    • RESTful services
    • Jenkins (CI (Continuous Integration) / DevOps)
    • JavaScript
    • ExtJS
    • Git
    • SQL (Oracle)
    • Flyway
    • IntelliJ / WebStorm
    • Sencha
    • AWS: S3, Lambda, EC2, Glue, Athena, CloudWatch
    • Bitbucket
    • Nexus
    • Data science / Statistics


     

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