Job description

We have an exciting opportunity for a Product Owner in our Loan Operations Department, specifically focusing on the Origination process. The successful incumbent will represent the customer, interfaces and engages the customer. The Product Owner must continuously engage the customer and stakeholders to ensure the Team is building the right product and therefore delivering the ROI expected of it. He/she will assess value, develop cases, and prioritiSe stories, epics and themes to ensure work focuses on those with maximum value that are aligned with product strategy.

Requirements

Key Performance Areas:

• Collaborator: Collaborates across business on all levels to arrive at the vision, goals, priorities and business objectives
• Vision, Goals and Measurement (collaborative process): Brings together and takes ownership of the product vision and ensures this is communicated into the team. Negotiates and takes ownership of product goals. Measures the value created by the product over time, especially after deployments. Ensure alignment between business and IT in vision and goals
• Manages the Product backlog: Manage and orders the product backlog in order of value, risk or business importance in collaboration / consultation with business owners / stakeholders and the scrum team
• Planning and organising: Plan, organise and collaborate to ensure future requirements from other teams are in place for delivery of dependant objectives / goals (While dependencies are a reality in our context)
• In the team and in business: Represents the business needs within the Scrum team. Brings the right stakeholders and expertise together as and when needed to collaborate with the team. The PO is a full member of the Scrum team and should be available to the team. The PO also spends time in business to ensure that they are aligned and understand the business direction and needs. Assists the Scrum Master in managing disruption (Operations has a high priority; we need stability to manage this)
• Acceptance criteria and release pipeline: Helps define acceptance criteria, ensuring that business is involved in this along with the team. Accepts or rejects the work of the development team before declaring done. Is accountable along with the team for delivery on time and of quality
• Decisions: Works with business stakeholders at their need for level of detail and involvement. Decisions are collaborative and the job of the PO is to bring the right people together to get finality on decisions

Qualification:

• Three-year tertiary qualification in Information Technology (B.Sc. Information Science or National Diploma/ B Tech Information Technology), Relevant IT degree or Business Administration from recognised institution
• Certified Product Owner (CPO)

 Experience: 

• Minimum eight years’ experience in a leadership role, including three years’ previous experience as a Product Owner or Lead Business Analyst
• Experience being the Product Owner for a software development team that are diligently applying Scrum principles, practices, and theory

Functional competencies:

• Solid understanding of the product lifecycle
• In-depth understanding of Agile software development methodologies, technical understanding of products, and up-to-date on industry standards and best practices
• Business domain knowledge
• Prioritisation skills
• Conflict resolution
• Excellent communication and presentation skills
• Accurate and precise attention to detail
• Able to build strong interpersonal relationships across business on all levels

Behavioural competencies:Team-related

• Clearly express the connections between larger business goals and small backlog items
• Exhibit Scrum values
• Effective communication
• Excellent facilitation 

Business-related

• Communicating with other POs
• Recording appropriate feature information for Scrum team
• Skilful collector or information about users’ needs
• Split big slices of value into small slices of value

Self-development

• Balances responsibilities of PO, team collaboration and self-development
• Learns by reading / researching
• Learns by experimenting / doing
• Learns by discussing
• Coachable

Other characteristics

• Patient
• Assertive
• Organised
• Consistent
• Conflict resolver
• Immensely knowledgeable about the product
• Promote continuous improvement
• Decisive

Posted on 27 Jun 11:19