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Scrum Product Owner

Scrum Product Owner

TV2 ConsultingOttawa, ON, CA
14 days ago
Job type
  • Full-time
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Job description

We are looking for a talented Scrum Product Owner to accomplish the delivery of IT solutions. The successful candidate will work in a virtual team environment and will partner with other IT teams as well as external vendors.  We require a highly motivated individual who thrives in a constantly changing and exciting environment to apply creativity and innovation in the development of solutions essential to support FMS current & future success.

Key Responsibilities :

  • Collaborate with program manager to incorporate feature requests into product roadmap
  • Work with internal customers to analyze needs
  • Develop and maintain a backlog of epics / user stories
  • Determine minimum viable product
  • Collaborate with the business analysis team to refine user stories and acceptance criteria so they are clearly understood by the development teams
  • Assess and prioritize stories to ensure work focuses on those with a maximum value
  • Prepare and lead the sprint planning sessions and sprint reviews
  • Set sprint goals
  • Represent team in front of stakeholders and users
  • Follow progress of work and solve product related problems, make decisions, perform trade-off analysis to stay on track towards commitments
  • Collaborate with the team members to refine our Agile methodology based on results and feedback

Requirements

Qualifications and Competencies :

  • Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Software Engineering or similar domain
  • 2 years+ experience as Scrum Product Owner or similar role
  • Deep understanding and hands-on experience with Agile methodologies (Scrum, SAFe, etc.)
  • Professional Scrum Product Owner (PSPO) or SAFe Product Owner / Product Manager training and certification
  • Ability to work with cross-functional teams to deliver on a common goal
  • Understanding of software development lifecycle
  • Strong analytical and problem solving skills
  • Experience defining requirements and solutions related to operational processes
  • Excellent ability to see the business problem and business solution in the eyes of the customer
  • Excellent organizational and time management skills
  • Attention to details
  • Ability to manage multiple projects and priorities
  • Comfortable working with and presenting to all management levels
  • Excellent verbal and written communication and negotiation skills, management of stakeholder expectations
  • Interpersonal skills and developing relationships with team members and customers

    • Preferred Skills :

  • Previous work experience in a business analyst, system analyst or software developer role
  • Proficiency with Agile tools (Jira, Confluence, etc.)
  • Proficiency with Microsoft Office tools (Word, Excel, Powerpoint, Project, Visio)
  • Experience with database systems such as Oracle, SQL Server, MySQL or others
  • Bilingualism (English and French) is an asset.
  • Knowledge of the Field Services domain, tools / processes
  • Experience in Telecommunications

    • Working Conditions :

  • Type of job : Temporary Contractor – 1 year with the possibility to extend
  • Work hours : Monday - Friday, 40 hours per week
  • Ability to work efficiently in virtual teams. Conference calls and video calls are routine, as is handling multiple parallel projects.
  • Availability to work occasional weekends and evenings to meet hard deadlines and available to work occasional overnights to take part in deployment activities
  • Ability to travel within Montreal, Ottawa, and Toronto corridors with advance notification; travel depending on project needs (occasional only)
  • Fast paced, changing working environment