Expert Product Owner - 4455

DESCRIPTION OF THE TASKS

• Works within the agile process and is the final authority for decisions regarding priority, business value, and functionality for all the work done by the agile development team.
• Typically supervises several business analysts.
• Possesses an in depth knowledge of goals and desired objectives of the project.
• Interacts and validates requirements with the business.
• Propose solutions by combining IT tools and business process refactoring or improvements based on an in-depth understanding of a specific business domain (see skills).
• Creates, maintains, prioritizes, and sequences the product backlog based on business value or return of investment.
• Creates user stories and acceptance tests from themes and features granular enough for a single sprint.
• Is involved in the decision-making process related to user stories scheduling into sprints.
• Participates in project planning, daily stand-up meetings (SCRUM).
• Participates in retrospectives, sprint and release planning, demos, and other Scrum-related meetings.
• Reviews deliverable and demonstrable product version/software functionalities after every sprint.
• Organizes live demonstration of the product at the end of the sprint.
• Facilitates the acceptance of the product by the business.
• Develops and maintains standards for testing.
• Provides progress reporting.
• Assists with internal and external communication by improving transparency and dissemination of information.
• Assists with prioritization and resolution of defects / bugs.
• May perform the role of Scrum master.

KNOWLEDGE AND SKILLS

• Rapid self-starting capability.
• Excellent interpersonal and communication skills.
• Excellent knowledge broker.
• Delegation and decision-making skills.

Due to the particular nature of a large international organization such as the European Commission, candidates should also have the following non-technical skills:

• Capability of integration in an international/multicultural environment, rapid self-starting capability and experience in working in team.
• Ability to participate in multilingual meetings.
• Ability to work in multi-cultural environment, on multiple large projects.
• Excellent Team Player.
• Ability to understand, speak and write in ENGLISH and FRENCH.
• High degree of discretion and integrity is required.

SPECIFIC EXPERTISE

• Experience with large, enterprise-level multi-user Information Systems.
• Experience in Agile.
• Experience with ServiceNOW platform.
• Good knowledge of agile toolbox (i.e. JIRA, Confluence, BigPicture, Gliffy, Balsamiq,).
• Good knowledge of Application Management Lifecycle.
• Good knowledge of UML.
• Good knowledge of Visio.
• Experience as developer (SQL, Cold Fusion, Java and javascript) is an asset.

CERTIFICATIONS & STANDARDS:

• Certified Scrum Product Owner (CSPO).
• Professional Scrum Product Owner (PSPO).
• SAFe Product Owner or equivalent.

The following documents / procedures will be requested to successfully complete the hiring process :

• A copy of your university degree(s)
• A copy of your criminal record
• Security Clearance Procedure

EU-Nationality is mandatory for ALL our job openings
We can, also, take into consideration CVs, that acquire work permit in the location where the client is or the job should be performed

 

WHO ARE WE?

VASS Group (https://vasscompany.com/en/) is a leading digital solutions group of companies headquartered in Madrid, Spain, present in 25 countries in Europe, the Americas and Asia with more than 4,300 professionals.

VASS helps large companies in their digital transformation process, developing and executing the most innovative and scalable projects, from strategy to operations.

All our growth comes from our talented people, passion for innovation, and a constant search for improvement, always the VASS way: “Complex made simple”.