Product Owner (with strong investment knowledge)

Key responsibilities

• Understand user needs through interaction with client end users
• Support pre-sales, implementation and customer services as an SME in your domain
• Facilitate team demo and involve relevant stakeholders - both internally and externally
• Ensure reliable and continuous release of value-adding solutions
• Proactively secure alignment of functional dependencies and priorities with POs and PMs inside and outside of the ART
• Drive process improvements across Product Management team
• Contribute to the Program Backlog and prepare PI events in cooperation with the Product Managers
• Own the team backlog and be primary responsible for building, refining, and maintaining the team backlog including defects and enablers
• Keep process of user story creation, refinement going and time adequate (just in time story elaboration)
• Own the development of story "Acceptance Criteria" and ensure that the appropriate persistent acceptance tests are included
• Be an expert and the "go-to" person on the functionality you are responsible for
• Own the functional dialogue with clients in development partnerships

Your qualifications

As an ideal candidate, you have:

• A master's degree in Finance, Economics or similar
• Solid experience within Financial Instruments Flow area
• The authority to take "on the fly" business decisions on user story level
• Ability and experience with engaging proactively with clients and internal stakeholders to solicit input for user stories
• Analytical capabilities
• Understanding of 3-Tier architecture concept and applying it when driving backlog execution
• Great facilitator and listener skills
• Ability to multitask - ability to supplement 1-2 teams in parallel as Product Owner as well as being out in the market to "listen in" and resolve queries
• A positive spirit but with authority to "control" an uncontrolled inflow of backlog items
• The ability to see the big picture and can convey it to team members
• Appreciation of team accomplishments over personal accomplishments
• The goal to make a positive impact for day-to-day users of SimCorp Dimension