Technical Product OwnerTECHINCAL PRODUCT OWNER KEY DUTIES AND RESPONSIBILITIES: The Product Owner will play a leadership role in the Scrum team to ensure that features and enhancements are in-scope, on-time and of high quality. Product Owner will lead our Corporate Payment WebServices team and should have a working knowledge and understanding of APIs, Webhooks and JavaScript (JSON). Key duties and responsibilities include:
Being the final decision maker for system feature implementation and responsible and accountable for the outcome
Play a leadership role in the Scrum team to ensure that capabilities are in-scope, on-time and of high quality, participating in all team ceremonies including standups, planning, review and retrospectives.
Managing up-to-date release pipeline, time and costs
Setting the short-term delivery target based on priorities and hitting the target
Validating QA and Production Deployments in conjunction with IT.
Working with stakeholders, Scrum team and Product Management Group, to adjust priorities and expectations in order to maximize the business value delivered
Translate product directives into backlog items, effectively representing customer needs.
Author, refine and approve backlog items, with clearly articulated acceptance criteria
Writing and prioritizing epics and user stories by understanding and translating customer and business needs
Managing trade-offs and defining acceptance criteria
Developing the roadmap across internal operation systems and business processes with enhancements
Serving as the primary source of external information for the Scrum teams, offering clear definitions of the targeted capability, the intended value to the customer and functional/non-functional requirements framing the scope of the capability
Effectively communicate product release contents and expected product capabilities/behavior to stakeholders
TECHNICAL PRODUCT OWNER EDUCATION AND EXPERIENCE:
Minimum 5-7 years of relevant Product Owner or Product Manager experience
Excellent project delivery skills with proven work experience participating in cross-functional teams
A Bachelor's degree, with a preference for Computer Science, Business Management, Accounting or Finance
MBA or PMP is an asset but not mandatory
Experience with APIs, Webhooks and JavaScript (JSON)
Experience with an international OR domestic payments company or similar industry
Previous experience in running an Operation team in a payments business or similar industry is a huge asset
Excellent communication skill for written, verbal and presentation/collateral mediums
Software Release management experience is a huge asset
Proven records of high-level productivity
Experience with Agile Development Methodologies
Experience managing cross functional teams is an asset
CSPO is nice to have but not mandatory
AWS experience is nice to have but not mandatory
TECHNICAL PRODUCT OWNER ABILITIES AND ATTRIBUTES:
Go-getter attitude
Result, Result and Result
Extremely high sense of responsibility
Extremely high sense of deadline
Strong leadership
A strong understanding of development best practices, and knowledge of Agile SDLC (Scrum, XP and Kanban)