Product Owner

4 weeks ago

Johannesburg, South Africa Nedbank Full time

**Requisition & Talent Acquisition Consultant Details**
- Req: 120526- Lebohang Monate- Job Family- Project, Process & Product- Career Stream- Product- Leadership Pipeline- Manage Managers**Job Purpose**
- This is an opportunity that will keep you excited, intrigued, engaged and will allow you to exercise your expertise, skills and competencies at all times. The role gives you a space to become eager to acquire new skills; skills that will help you to ensure the relevance of our Digital Platforms.
- You will be amongst a team of great people, magnificent colleagues that are obsessed with getting things done A culture of Customer Centricity, Professionality and Resilience.**Responsibilities**:

- Manage the scope and move through iterations
- Assist the Scrum Master to organise Sprint Review Meetings.
- Take lead of scrum teams as the Product Owner
- Provide guidance in mitigating impediments impacting the completion of Release/Sprint Goals
- Develop and maintain, prioritized and manage backlog of user stories for implementation
- Write user stories
- Create and maintain the Product Backlog according to business value or ROI
- Prioritize the features in the Backlog before Sprint and set Sprint goals
- Plan and prioritize product feature backlog and development for the product
- Provide backlog management, iteration planning, and elaboration of the user stories
- Develop appropriately detailed specifications for product features so that it is clearly understood by the development teams
- Act as an ambassador for the product internally and externally, and as the primary technical contact for queries related to the product
- Develop product pricing and positioning strategies
- Lead the planning product release plans and set expectation for delivery of new functionalities
- Build and follow a roadmap
- Provide insights into the user test cases and arrange product testing groups
- Define feature acceptance criteria and test cases
- Manage the user acceptance testing process
- Track progress in a running system, proven to work by passing repeatable tests.
- Drive product launch
- Build and maintain product awareness on all levels among product teams
- Incorporate feature requests into product roadmap
- Develop user stories and define acceptance criteria
- Plan releases and upgrades
- Review solution design plans
- Define product vision, road-map and growth opportunities
- Declare the business priority of every user story
- Substitute functionality and to change priorities
- Manage the development teams to deliver innovative solutions with an appropriate sense of urgency
- Follow progress of work and address production issues during sprints
- Ensure the team focus on behaviour and outcomes that drive customer value
- Communicate the Business Requirements to the team
- Work with key stakeholders across the company to ensure successful product releases
- Ensure understanding of the customer experience
- Analyse preferences and requests of end users
- Refine the agile methodology based on results and client feedback
- Communicate, negotiate, and resolve conflicting interests between key stakeholders.
- Represent customer needs and priorities to the team
- Assess value, develop cases, and prioritize stories, epics and themes to ensure work focuses on those with maximum value that are aligned with product strategy
- Facilitate demos and customer feedback sessions
- Conduct Sprint planning and resource estimation
- Prioritize processes and activities
- Participate in the promotion plan development.
- Provide vision and direction to the Agile development team and stakeholders throughout the project and create requirements
- Coordinate with other Agile team leaders
- Provide status updates to business leadership
- Research and analyse market, the users, and the roadmap for the product
- Follow competitors and the industry and keep track of industry trends
- Support the achievement of the business strategy, objectives and values
- Stay abreast of developments in field of expertise
- Ensure personal growth and enable effectiveness in performance of roles and responsibilities
- Seek opportunities to improve business processes, models and systems though agile thinking.
- Essential Qualifications - NQF Level- Advanced Diplomas/National 1st Degrees
- Preferred Qualification- Product Owner Training/Course (Formal or Informal)- Minimum Experience Level- 6 to 10 years product and Agile experience**Technical / Professional Knowledge**
- Awareness of the Software Development Life Cycle (SDLC)
- Knowledge of specific technology
- Business Acumen
- Company/Division/Cluster/Business Unit specific business knowledge
- Internal Business Products and Processes
- Business analysis
- User stories
- Multiple IT products
- Product design
- Specific IT products knowledge
- Behavioural Competencies- Driving Innovation
- Customer Focus
- Operational Decision Making
- Strategic Planning
- Building Customer Relationships
- Driving for results
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