Product Owner: Actuarial Systems Control Expert

6 days ago


Cape Town, Western Cape, South Africa Sanlam Full time
Product Overview:

Sanlam is a leading financial services company that requires experienced professionals to drive its growth and success.

The Product Owner (PO) plays a crucial role in prioritizing the backlog to ensure seamless execution of program priorities while maintaining the conceptual and technical integrity of features or components.

The PO works closely with business owners, insurance product actuaries, release train engineers, squad members, business consultants, users, project managers, architects, and other team members to define non-functional requirements.

Main Responsibilities:

  1. Backlog Refinement: As a member of the extended product management team, the PO is heavily involved in backlog refinement, preparation for PI planning, and plays a significant role in the planning event itself along with the squad.
  2. Prioritization: Backlog items are prioritized based on user value, time, and other team dependencies determined in the PI planning meeting.
  3. Iteration Execution: The PO participates in iteration planning ceremonies and assists the squad. They identify dependencies and coordinate the addressing of dependencies with other product owners as input to the final iteration plan.
  4. Quality Engineer Management: The PO ensures goal setting is done for each quality engineer, assists with career planning and development plans, and evaluates performance in an objective and fair way.

Requirements:

  • Qualifications: A B-degree with a mathematical or computational major will be advantageous, as well as experience in programming.
  • Experience & Knowledge: At least 4 years' relevant experience within actuarial, knowledge of Sanlam Risk products, calculators, Epsilon system, quotation systems, and DWH.


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