Senior Product Owner

Senior Product Owner
Senior Product Owner/ Agile/ Data Analysis/Data Management Systems/ High Transaction Back Office Systems/ Azure/ Functions /Storage/Service Bus/ SFIA/ Payment Solutions/Payments

London/Remote- will be required to be onsite twice a week.
£500-545 Per Day- Inside IR35
10 Month Contract-A view to extend for a further 12 Months

Our client requires an Senior Product Owner to be accountable and responsible for collating, analysing, prioritizing and translating business requirements into technical requirements and units of work (user stories) that are implementable by their assigned Scrum Agile development teams. You will be responsible for the creation and ongoing maintenance of their product backlog, ensuring that stories are proportional, appropriately sized, and include sufficient information to enable development of high-quality software by Agile Teams

You will provide Agile specialist expertise to ensure backlogs are constantly well maintained, prioritised, and give full coverage of the requirements, acting as an effective conduit between the development team and the business stakeholders should any technical issues or ambiguities arise.

You will work with all parties as necessary within the project including the Solution Architects, Agile Development Leads, Technical Development Leads, Agile Test Leads, Agile Delivery Leads, and other stakeholders to establish an optimal solution which meets requirements and adheres to technical strategy/constraints and considers total cost of ownership.

Key Responsibilities:

• Develop strong, effective backlogs in an agile environment, including gathering requirements, developing effective user stories, and gathering feedback from stakeholders to incorporate into the backlog for future development.
• Communicate with non-technical stakeholders about complex technical concepts to effectively define and prioritize features, refine scope, and collect story acceptance criteria.
• Engage and nurture stakeholders, by actively listening, negotiating, and managing conflicts to determine scope/prioritization, identify problems, and determine solutions with business and technical stakeholders.
• Coordinate integrations and dependencies with other Product Owners to ensure that development aligns with deliveries from other teams in time, scope and performance, ensuring a quality end-to-end product.
• Identify and flag risks to delivery to the relevant teams, determine any suitable mitigations, assess the delivery impact to delivery and timelines, and escalate rapidly as required.
• Assess and improve product processes within their teams, product areas, and on the wider programme to enhance the efficiency and quality of product development, agile practice and product strategy.

Key Experience:

• Senior Product Owner experience of at least 6+ years on projects of a similar size, scale
• Experience in technical systems and data analysis.
• Experience working with data management systems.
• Experience in building an auditable data service that allows validations, sanitization, and revisions.
• Experience in developing complex, high transaction back-office systems.
• Experience of implementing systems using Azure technologies (including but not limited to: - Functions, Storage, Service Bus etc)
• SFIA competency-based resources would be desirable.
• Previous experience of working within payments/ PCI compliant payment solutions.

In the first instance please submit your CV