Product Owner

2 weeks ago


Pretoria, Gauteng, South Africa Curiska (Pty) Ltd Full time

Minimum education (essential):

BEng (Computer) Degree or BSC Information Technology Degree or similar

Minimum education (desirable):

Relevant Information Technology degree or diploma Certified Scrum Master

Minimum applicable experience (years):
10+ years with 5+ in a Team Management Role

Required nature of experience:

  • Full stack development
  • Golang
  • Cybersecurity (SOC 2 or HiTrust)
  • Team management
  • Recruitment
  • Effective management of employees
  • Dev output management
  • Excellence management
  • Proven experience in full BI stack framework.
  • Tech performance analysis and analytics
  • Data warehouse design (e.g. dimensional modelling) and data mining.
  • Requirement gathering and documentation.
  • Scrum Master (Agile).

Skills and Knowledge (essential)**:

  • Practising knowledge of SDLC.
  • Knowledge of consumerfacing web development, deployment and maintenance.
  • An indepth understanding of User Experience design and Consumer products.
  • Knowledge of SQL queries, SQL Server Reporting Services (SSRS) and SQL Server Integration Services (SSIS).
  • Nonrelational database design and management.
  • SQL Database management, BQuery and SQL Server skills including SQL objects development. performance tuning, analysis and integration.
  • Working knowledge on translating business needs into technical specifications.
  • Indepth understanding of database management systems, online analytical processing (OLAP) and ETL (Extract, transform, load) framework.
  • Strong analytical, troubleshooting skills and rootcause analysis ability.
  • Familiarity with BI technologies (e.g. Microsoft Power BI, Oracle BI).

Skills and Knowledge (desirable):

  • BPMN 2.0.
  • UML Knowledge.
  • Back end, Front end, and Mobile development.
  • CX and UX Knowledge.
  • JIRA or similar.

Other:

Hands-on coding 50% of the time

Essential Competencies:

  • Examining Information
  • Providing Insights
  • Developing Strategies
  • Making Decisions
  • Directing People
  • Checking Things
  • Taking Action
  • Pursuing Goals

Important Competencies:

  • Interpreting Data
  • Adopting Practical Approaches
  • Exploring Possibilities
  • Convincing People
  • Articulating Information
  • Showing Composure
  • Embracing Change
  • Team Working
  • Empowering Individuals
  • Managing Tasks
  • Upholding Standards
  • Producing Output
  • Ensure the team meets timelines and produces content of the highest quality, always maintaining the professional image of company both internally and externally.
  • Provide leadership to the development team

Engineering Team Management (and Scrum) 15%

  • Ensure the team meets timelines and produces content of the highest quality, always maintaining the professional image of company, both internally and externally.
  • Provide leadership to the development team
through coaching and mentorship, conducting regular check-ins with members of the department to ensure employees are supported and coached.

Team alignment:

  • Ensure alignment with Engineering Tech Lead's strategy and vision.
  • Ensure alignment between developers, engineers, business analysts and other business units such as operations and marketing.

Team efficiency management:

  • Manage team productivity and metrics, ensuring quarter on quarter improvements.
  • Efficiently and effectively deploy resources where and when needed.
  • Identify and encourage areas for growth and improvement within the team.
  • Maintain job descriptions of team members and write new job descriptions for available positions within the department.
  • Identify the need for team capacity increases effectively and proactively, and drive recruitment process
  • Manage tasks and priorities within the team, based on EXCO strategic objectives.

Team work quality:

  • Maintain high standards of software quality within the team by establishing good processes, practices and habits.
  • Ensure compliance to the established processes and standards for the development lifecycle.

Development 50%

  • Research, consult, analyze and evaluate system program needs.
  • Identify technology limitations and deficiencies in existing systems and associated processes, procedures and methods.
  • Write and maintain efficient, reusable and reliable code to meet system requirements, system designs and technical specifications in accordance with quality accredited standards.
  • Write, update and maintain technical programs.
  • Ensure integrity of systems and databases.
  • Design and build intuitive and robust integrations between system aspects, components etc.
  • Drive a datalead approach within the division, ensuring data is top of mind and considered across functions and decisionmaking individuals.
  • Use data and insights to address and improve operational inefficiencies, lack of process adherence, and sales outcomes.
  • Establish processes and standards for the development lifecycle.
  • Manage sprints and development methodology within division.
  • Ensure engineers develop in line with product strategy, designs and do

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