Job Description

Our client in the telecommunications industry is seeking a skilled Product Owner to join their team on a contract basis in Johannesburg. As a Product Owner, you will play a crucial role in driving the development and delivery of innovative products and features that meet the evolving needs of our customers.Minimum requirements

• 8 years' experience as product owner
• Own, drive, and focus the team on delivery of business value and content
• Develop and define user stories and items and acceptance criteria from the feature and capability roadmap defined by Product Managers
• Rank and prioritize user stories and items and add them to the team backlog for sprint development, conveying a clear vision of what is required to be built
• Approve the final release plan and accept all deliverables against defined user stories and acceptance criteria
• Analyse and report delivery risks and opportunities, and engage stakeholders for communications and decision-making
• Participate in retrospectives to identify improvement opportunities
• Acts as single point of business contact for the DevOps team
• Manage the financial plan for the delivery team, providing forecasts
• Excellent problem solving skills, with the ability to minimize overhead tasks for the team and manage interdependences with other teams
• Excellent relationship building and influencing skills, with the ability to foster an inclusive team culture
• Excellent business acumen and understanding of the role of the capability in contributing to business value
• In-depth understanding of both the current Telecommunications and digital. Services market and emerging business and technology trends
• A strong customer-centric focus, with an entrepreneurial and ROL mindset Ability to function with a high degree of autonomy
• Strong financial management skills and acumen
• Strong time-management skills, with the ability to juggle multiple balls, and comfortable working under pressure
• The individual will be responsible for the definition of customer-centric items or
• User stories from the capability/feature roadmap defined by the Product
• Manager, ranking and prioritizing them, and adding them to the team backlog
• Will work closely with the Release Train Engineer/Agile
• Programme Manager and Scrum Master in coordinating day to day activities such as sprint planning, retrospectives and other agile functions to ensure collaboration and effective delivery of user stories against commercial Milestone objectives.
• Responsible for the prioritization and delivery of the backlog of change initiatives to maximize business benefit of the products and features we offer.

Qualification

• Bachelor's degree in computer science, Information Systems, Business Administration, or another related field

Job Type:

• Contract

Workplace type:

• Hybrid

Location:

• Johannesburg

Experience Level:

• Senior

If you have what it takes, please email:

Paracon