Sr. Product Owner to join Scrum team supporting Field Management Services for our Telecom client - 9149
Duration: 12 Months (December Start Date)
Location: Remote
The IT team supporting Field Management Services (FMS) is 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.
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
Must Haves:
• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Software Engineering or similar domain
• 4 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
• Experience defining requirements and solutions related to operational processes
• Comfortable working with and presenting to all management levels
Nice to haves:
• 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 a requirement in Quebec and an asset in other provinces
• Knowledge of the Field Services domain, tools / processes
• Experience in Telecommunications
Working Conditions:
• 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
