QUALIFICATIONS AND JOB DESCRIPTION

Job Description Summary

Responsible for working in lock-step with application or domain leaders acting as a senior technical product manager to create a clear strategic direction that will be delivered by the product development team. You will work with the team and deliver a clear and descriptive set of requirements to enable the delivery of product features and functionality. Your priority is seamless integration and alignment of perspectives from a broad set of stakeholders including but not limited to: Customers, Process Owners, Enterprise Architects, Application Managers, Development teams and Technical Architects.

Job Description

Option to flexible working (option to work from home or in the office)

Essential Responsibilities:

Your priority is seamless integration and alignment of perspectives from a broad set of stakeholders including but not limited to: Customers, Process Owners, Enterprise Architects, Application Managers, Development teams and Technical Architects.

In this role, you will:
• Work with cross-functional (process, design, build, test) teams to deliver features and products
• Own the short-term product roadmap and it’s integration into a larger application or strategic roadmap
• Engage continuously with customers and stakeholders to understand their business goals and motivating factors
• Demonstrate ability to influence customers and product managers through credible knowledge and experience, persuasion and influencing skills
• Lead customer and stakeholder interviews to align product design with roles (personas)
• Own the product backlog; continuously groom and ensure that an agreed scope is always ready to move into development
• Lead the product development team; facilitate discussions, provide clarification, story acceptance and refinement, testing and validation; owner of functional or technical product design
• Understand and follow the proscribed governance process and development methodology for product development
• Translate unstructured or ambiguous requests into actionable user stories and work units through problem decomposition and planning
• Demonstrate substantial experience with the technology stack and its impact on the final product

Qualifications/Requirements

• Bachelor's Degree in Computer Science or in STEM” Majors (Arts, Science, Technology, Engineering) is an asset

• Totally min of 7 years of experience (TPM experience is an asset) and

min. 2 years Professional Business Analysis experience.(Agile/Scrum etc.)

• Agile execution exp. is a must

• Software Development Cycle Time exp. is a must

• Fluent in English

Desired Characteristics:

Technical Expertise:
• Strong technical expertise in the underlying design and architecture of (the applicable product)
• Strong Business Analysis skills and ability to translate requirements to enterprise software features
• Experience leading teams in a formal software development lifecycle environment following a formal project management and governance process
• Familiarity with waterfall and iterative software implementation approaches (Agile, XP, DSDM, Lean and FDD)
• Experience in areas such as caching, APIs, data transfer, scalability, and security
• Expert proficiency in tools supporting SDLC such as Jira, Rally, Aris, MS Project etc.

Business Acumen:
• Demonstrates the initiative to explore alternate technologies and approaches to solving problems
• Skilled in breaking down problems and estimating efforts
• Has the ability to propose, analyze impact and recommend appropriate technology choices
• Skilled in negotiation to align stakeholders and communicate a single synthesized perspective to the product development team. Balances value propositions from competing stakeholders.
• Demonstrates awareness of the competitive environment and it’s impact on the product
• Demonstrates knowledge of technologies in the market to actively participate in buy vs build recommendations, drive market timing decisions and scope of MVPs

Leadership:
• Ability to take ownership of medium sized or incompletely defined tasks
• Delivers while mentoring and helping junior team members
• Ensures understanding of issues and presents clear rationale. Able to speak to mutual needs and win-win solutions. Uses two-way communication to influence outcomes and ongoing results
• Identifies misalignments with goals, objectives and work direction against the organizational strategy. Makes suggestions to course correct or escalates appropriately
• Continuously measures deliverables of self and team against commitments. Effectively balances multiple, different and/or competing objectives

Personal Attributes:
• Excellent oral and written communication skills
• Strong interpersonal skills
• Effective team building and problem solving abilities
• Persists to completion, especially in the face of overwhelming odds and setbacks.
• Pushes self for results; pushes others for results through team spirit and exhibiting role model behavior