Product Owner at Techsavanna Technology Limited

Function:Mobile Money Services

Reports to:Principal Manager, Business Analysis

Department:Mobile Payments Solutions

Job Description

We are pleased to announce the vacancy for Credit Squad Product Owner.In keeping with our current business needs, we are looking for a person who meets the criteria indicated below. To work as a product owner in one of the Credit/lending squads, taking direction from the product manager and working closely with the development team to document and size stories , to then be developed by the team.

Responsibilities

• Responsible for creating the overall sprint plan across a Program Increment
• Represents the end user and works with SME’s to understand requirements and co-create user stories and other required artefacts
• Establishes acceptance criteria for User stories
• Responsible for continuous prioritisation of the team backlog and earliest delivery of value
• Responsible for leading the Sprint Planning session by directing prioritised user stories into the Sprint Backlog
• Supports and aligns with Product Manager to allow creation of an effective Product Management team
• Establishes the overall goal for each sprint
• Make decision on options that can affect multiple users
• Communicating workstream progression to wider market and stakeholders in the form of sprint demos, to obtain ongoing feedback
• To understand the core technology platform capability and collaborate with developers in the best way to meet product objectives,
• Provides continuous feedback on development, accepting sprint outputs and user stories

Qualifications

• Strong understanding of lending and credit products and a background knowledge in other areas of banking and financial services.
• Experience of software development lifecycle is essential, especially within agile methodologies
• Experienced in the use of common business and systems analysis methodologies and modelling tools (JIRA, Confluence).
• Strong process and analytical skills, able to identify solutions to complex problems.
• Strong business and customer focus.
• Ability to work proactively within a demanding environment, being a key contributor to a fast-moving product development process.
• Ability to communicate and influence with tact and diplomacy.
• Demonstrable numerical, analytical and verbal skills, in particular well-developed written and verbal communication skills in English.
• Experience working within a multi-national team and serving customers from multiple countries would be of benefit.
• Ideally educated to degree level, or equivalent