Hays Technology

Product Owner
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📅 Date Posted

Feb 10, 2025

💼 Job Type

CONTRACTOR

💵 Rate

£550.00 - £650.00

Description

Your new company and role

Hays' client is a major digital consultancy who are carrying out a significant piece of work with a financial services end client. The client is looking for an experienced product owner with prior experience in finance to assist them with their project.

Your day-to-day responsibilities include:

- Work with internal and external customers to analyse the needs and align product vision, roadmap and backlog to strategic goals.
- Own the product roadmap, develop scope and define backlog items across thousands of user stories that guide the Agile software development team.
- Solve product related problems, make decisions, complete trade-off analysis to stay on track towards the best business outcomes.
- Draft key objectives and results, strategies and apply to make business decisions.
- Possess a fundamental understanding of end-to-end customer experience integration and dependencies.
- Collaborate with stakeholders during the visioning and concept development of a product.
- Accountable for the created product(s), delivering in the product model and communicating the product needs with business partners.
- Assess value, develop cases, and work with customer representatives to prioritise activities to ensure we deliver maximum value aligned with product strategy.
- Develop and maintain an appropriately prioritised backlog of user stories for implementation.
- Act as an ambassador for the product internally and externally and as the primary contact for queries related to the product.

Flexible working arrangements will be available for the right candidate.

What you'll need to succeed

The following skills and experience are essential for this role:

- 5 years' experience of Product Management experience in the public / financial sector.
- Management of senior stakeholders and their expectations.
- Deep understanding, experience and passion with Agile methods and mindset.
- Ability to work with and lead cross-functional teams to deliver on a common goal.
- Excellent communication and interpersonal skills, with the ability to build relationships и influence decision makers и teams
- Experience с definition оf minimum marketable features аnd minimum viable products.
- Experience оf defining thе prоduct roadmap аnd managing а prоduct backlog.
- Organisational аnd time management skills.
- Strong analytical аnd problem-solving skills
- Attention tо detail.
- Working knowledge оf Agile tools including but not limited tо Jira Confluence.
- Product Owner Certification.
- Able tо undertake аnd successfully gain SC level security clearance checks.

What you need to do now

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