We are urgently looking for a Senior Product Owner / Business Analyst in the region of Murcia. Candidates need to have a fluent level of English.
This position is remote and long-term. Candidates need to live and work in region of Murcia (max 2 hour drive) to make occassional meetings on-site possible.
Tasks and Responsibilities:
- Builds constructive working relationships / partnerships with client product owners / key stakeholders and team members, facilitating strategic and execution alignment;
- Owns and communicates the cadence for internal and client-facing ceremonies. Leads backlog refinement, demos and retrospectives; participates and advises in the daily stand up and sprint planning sessions;
- Provides expertise and both big picture and detailed advice for team members (product engineers, QA engineers and scrum lead);
- Structures delivery into epics, features and user stories;
- Works with architects to define and agree solutions;
- Liaises with relevant business and technology stakeholders to elicit and analyse requirements, define and document user stories using gherkin script, each with clear acceptance criteria;
- Supports the testing / QA process;
- Ensures that supporting documentation is either created or maintained to support end users;
- Facilitates and manages risks, blockers and dependencies, escalating internally or to the client when required;
- Ensures clear reporting and metrics are provided to demonstrate velocity and value to the client;
- Supports, contributes to or leads client steering committee depending on the engagement;
- Embeds a culture of continuous learning and improvement within the sprint team, with client counterpart teams and across the SQA Consulting organisation;
- Looks for opportunities to increase client engagement;
- Mentoring and supporting team members;
Profile:
- Bachelor or Master degree;
- +10 years of experience as Product Owner / Business Analyst;
- 10 years’ experience in the fields of business analysis and/or product management;
- In-depth experience in leading projects using Agile frameworks – experience within Scaled Agile is an advantage. Able to give evidence of a proactive organised approach to delivery;
- Background in software delivery and detailed knowledge of the SDLC is necessary;
- CI / CD and DevOps awareness is an advantage;
- Evidence of senior stakeholder management is also required;
- Excellent documentation skills;
- Conceptual and analytical thinking;
- Track record of delivering business benefits and value;
- Experience in developing top performing teams;
- Strong reporting and presentation skills;
- Track record of delivering client-facing projects and programmes;
- Excellent planning and organisational skills;
- Fluent level of English;
Offered: Attractive salary package (employees);Career development training;