Product Owner (8293) needed at Allan Gray Proprietary Limited

Job Responsibilities

• Lead two cross-functional products teams (developers, testers, and analysts) together with the technical lead
• Play a general leadership role within the broader IT department
• Manage and mentor the business and support analysts
• Work with business stakeholders to define and maintain the product vision and what is required to achieve the vision
• Understand business priorities and requirements and plan work accordingly
• Critically evaluate information gathered from multiple stakeholders and resolve conflicts
• Challenge stakeholder assumptions and requirements if cost and value are at odds
• Facilitate the design of the solution architecture that best meets the business requirements
• Work with teams to provide credible time and cost estimates
• Manage the product roadmaps and ensure teams are in kept informed
• Review and approve analysis specifications and UX/UI designs
• Help the development team to design the appropriate technical implementation. 
• Drive project delivery and proactively communicate status with stakeholders, providing enough information for informed business decisions
• Work with other Product Owners to coordinate delivery on related work
• Support the documentation and planning of test scenarios, test cases and testing activities necessary to assess the quality and completion of system implementations
• Manage the team and assist in resolving conflicts or making trade-offs
• Work with technical, testing and design leads to ensure a healthy balance between business backlog, technical backlog, QA backlog and design debt backlog 
• Support the technical team to ensure the web applications are always available and performant
• Manage and control what is added to the production environment

Skills/Competencies and Experience Required

• Relevant industry experience, financial services preferred
• Significant business or systems analysis experience
• Experience with secure web or mobile applications
• At least 2 years people management experience
• Attention to detail and problem-solving skills
• Methodical approach to work
• Experience leading software development teams and managing complex software projects
• Ability to work across different projects at the same time
• Good verbal, written and interpersonal communication skills
• Planning, organizational and time management skills
• Experience with stakeholder management
• Experience working with UI and UX designers
• Familiarity with SQL advantageous

Qualifications

• Relevant tertiary qualification, technology or business analyst qualification preferred
• Strong academic performance