Product Owner I

2 weeks ago


Johannesburg, Gauteng, South Africa Nedbank Full time
Job Requisition and Talent Acquisition contact

REQ: 133707

TA Consultant: Lebohang Monate

Advert Closing date: 07/06/2024

Job Family

Product, Process and Product

Career Stream

Product

Leadership Pipeline

MSP

Job Purpose

To play a critical role in ensuring the successful development and delivery of high-quality products. Have a deep understanding of customer needs, strong business acumen, and effective communication skills to collaborate with cross-functional teams. Is responsible for identifying and prioritizing product features, guiding the development process, and maximizing the value delivered to customers and stakeholders on a team level able to manage a backlog and work effectively with the development team.

Job Responsibilities
  • Define the scope to be delivered in the iterations in alignment with the Product Manager's vision
  • Lead iteration review meetings to share iteration performance and latest product features
  • Provide guidance in quantifying and mitigating impediments impacting the completion of release/iteration goals
  • Provide input into specifications for product features so that it is clearly understood by the development teams
  • Contribute to design, requirements, user stories, acceptance criteria and test cases the architectural runway and continuous value flow
  • Prioritise the team backlog for implementation to prioritise against value, readiness and product priorities, which enable the timelines.
  • Assist with ART backlog prioritisation, and educate the ART during PI Planning
  • Act as an ambassador for the delivery roadmap of the product and ensure that the rights solutions are built in the right way through collaboration with all stakeholders and the agile team
  • Lead the program increment planning product release plans and set expectation for delivery of new functionalities
  • Incorporate feature requests from stakeholders and requirements into the product roadmap, in alignment with the product manager
  • Plan releases and upgrades in alignment with product requirements
  • Contribute to solution design plans, product vision, roadmap and growth opportunities for the product or component owned by the Agile team
  • Collaborate with development teams to deliver innovative solutions with an appropriate sense of urgency
  • Enable connection between the team and stakeholders ensuring the identified problem and /or opportunity is solved
  • Ensure alignment across customer experience standards
  • Have a clear understanding of the prioritized product features to be delivered between stakeholders
  • Advocate the customer needs and priorities to the team in order to ensure the voice of customer is present in all sessions and delivery is aligned to customer needs
  • Attend and contribute to agile nWoW ceremonies and PI planning to enable the Agile team to work and plan effectively to deliver value
  • Coordinate any common objectives and dependencies with other Product owners to manage capacity and deliverables
  • Ensure adherence to enterprise priority principles to maximise value delivery across the organisation
  • Collaborate with Chapter COEs to clearly understand and adopt their practices, principles, and ways of working
  • Lead Agile Team members to work according to Nedbank and industry best practices.
  • Prepare for PI Planning by understanding the Vision and Program Increments, forecasting work through Roadmaps, and managing the Team Backlog"
Essential Qualifications - NQF Level
  • Advanced Diplomas/National 1st Degrees
Preferred Qualification

B.Comm/ IT ,

Preferred Certifications

Scaled Agile Framework (Leading SAFe, SAFe Product Owner/Product Manager (POPM),
Entry level BA certification

Minimum Experience Level

1- 2 year

Technical / Professional Knowledge
  • communication
  • Problem solving skills
  • Business Acumen
  • Business Analysis
  • Design Thinking
  • Agile Product Management
  • Principles and practices of agile
  • Agile methodologies
Behavioural Competencies
  • Collaborating
  • Customer Orientation
  • Decision Making
  • Technology Savvy
  • Planning and Organizing
  • Continuous Improvement

Please contact the Nedbank Recruiting Team at


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