Product Owner

Senior Product Owner-Technical (PM-T)

Solutions Architecture and Engineering team is looking for a new Senior Product Owner-Technical (PM-T) to drive the delivery of payment gateway solutions in a fast-paced Scaled Agile environment. The ideal candidate is passionate about both understanding the customer & the business, and working with technology teams to deliver aligned business solutions.

Role

• Act as the Product Owner - Technical for your Agile development team, working closely with internal Product Managers to understand high level business needs & business requirements, and representing these back to your Agile team. Please note this is not a client-facing role.
• Using the Working Backwards method, decomposes business requirements and customer experiences into features and functions that drive the platform/product roadmap.
• Drive the technical business and systems analysis based on product requirements to detailed solution development.
• Collaborate with your Agile development team(s) and system architects to understand the impact on gateway systems and agree the optimal functional solution for new product features.
• Take an active role in the SAFe PI Planning process, preparing features for the planning event and working through these features with your team to plan their delivery.
• Through team backlog grooming sessions and individual elaboration activity, define user stories that capture the functional requirements identified to meet the agreed solution.
• Take responsibility for the prioritisation of the team backlog and for accepting user stories on build completion.
• Produce internal & external-facing supporting documentation using standard templates and natural language.

All about you The ideal candidate for this position should:

• Demonstrate the ability to complete technical systems analysis and solutioning.
• Solid business analysis skills and knowledge are essential, i.e. the ability to take high level requirements and drill these down into detailed functional requirements under your own initiative
• Demonstrate the ability to collaboratively design solutions that both enhance the product offering, and work within the design principles.
• Comfortable working at a detailed level with interface specifications & doing related data mappings to and from APIs.
• Ability to work collaboratively with development and business stakeholders within an Agile team.
• Able to communicate effectively with both business & technical audiences.
• Payments experience is a plus but not essential.
• Empowerment and accountability, demonstrating independent thinking and a collaboration mindset
• Committed to deliver on time and to quality.
• Willingness to learn and get stuck in.