Agile Product Owner

Posted 04 January 2023
Salary £50000 - £56000 per annum
LocationBedford
Job type Permanent
Discipline Software Engineering
Reference6745_1672835724
Contact NameMarkJames Search

Job description



Our client, a global leader in Software Development is currently hiring for an Agile product owner Reporting to our clients Head of delivery to meet our client's needs.

Responsibilities -

  • Must be able to Agree project goals and objectives with our clients' customers and Account Management. Communicate the vision to the delivery team.
  • Work with our customers to clarify requirements and distil into agile user stories and user interface mock-ups.
  • Use agile estimation practices to help the delivery team size delivery and create a sprint-based release plan that sets overall expectations on team size and delivery dates.
  • Create the product backlog and prioritise work with project stakeholders on a sprint by sprint basis.
  • Attend daily project stand-ups. Organise sprint planning days, end of sprint demonstrations and retrospectives.
  • Arrange and facilitate customer user acceptance test and early live support phases.

Requirements -

  • Full and clean driving licence
  • There may be some requirement to attend exhibitions, events and other office locations outside of working hours.
  • Implement and act in accordance with the Company's Information Security and Acceptable Use policies.
  • Satisfactory completion of pre-employment screening, including a DBS/NPPV3 check dependent on role and responsibilities

Preferred skills -

  • Proven experience in delivering application software as a Product Owner
  • Ability to model business systems and processes including user roles, permissions, workflow and reporting.
  • Experience of working in Agile delivery particularly Scrum
  • Previous experience with Jira and Confluence would be beneficial
  • Ability to generate user interface mock-ups using tools such as Balsamiq

This is a full time / permanent position.

This is a 100% remote/home-based position with some travel to Bedford Office 2 - 3 times monthly as required.

Please apply online for consideration.