Job Description

Senior Product Owner - Johannesburg - R1mil to R1.2mil Per AnnumA sustainable investment platform serving families, foundations, and institutional investors for more than 20 years has an open role for a Platform Product Owner (PPO) who will have end to end accountability for your Data/Analytics products, from strategy, delivery, service lifecycle and production operations.Responsibilities:

• Define product features and User stories.
• Ability to prioritise the product and Iteration backlog to streamline the execution of program priorities while maintaining the conceptual and technical integrity of the Features or components for the team.
• Significant experience in quality control as the only team member empowered to accept stories as done.
• Responsible for the Program Backlog, to prepare for the Program Increment (PI) Planning meeting.
• Dissect high-level information into details and is able to communicate details in a manner understood by relevant audiences.
• Ability to drill down into the details of a delivery request without losing sight of the big picture.
• Proven ability to quickly learn new business domains and technical applications.
• Prepare agreed deliverables in line with standards, to meet agreed quality standards and timelines.

Qualifications and Experience:

• Experience with Data Management and Business Intelligence Tools - Microsoft stack advantageous
• At least 10 years proven data management and BI experience
• 5+ years banking experience at senior level advantageous
• 5 years data product management experience
• Software implementation best practices knowledge and experience
• Project Management - Microsoft Azure DevOps (Agile), MS Project Office, Kanban Boards
• Project reporting - MS PowerPoint, MS Word, MS Excel
• Should have good functional knowledge of Banking (Retail, Investment, Corporate and Commercial).
• Subject matter expertise in all areas of product management, including demand management, business management, stakeholder management, roadmap development, communications, and user experience.

The Reference Number for this position is NG59826 which is a Permanent role based in Fourways, Johannesburg offering a cost to company of R1mil to R1.2mil per annum negotiable on experience and ability. Contact Nokuthula at or call her on 011 463 3633 to discuss this and other opportunities.Are you ready for a change of scenery? E-Merge IT recruitment is a specialist niche recruitment agency. We offer our candidates options so that we can successfully place the right developers with the right companies in the right roles. Check out the e-Merge website for more great positions.Do you have a friend who is a developer or technology specialist? We pay cash for successful referrals!

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