Senior IT Product Owner

Job description

Talent Quanta is seeking a Senior IT Product Owner fluent in English, to offer his/her services as an expert who will be based in Brussels, Belgium. The work will be carried out either in the company’s premises or on site at customer premises. In the context of the first assignment, the successful candidate will be integrated in the Development team of the company that will closely cooperate with a major client’s IT team on site.

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Key responsabilities

• Develop an in-depth knowledge of goals and desired objectives of the project/product;
• Manage the product backlog with continuous updates based on business feedback and priorities;
• Ensure that short and long term priorities are well known and firmly committed by the business;
• Create user stories and tasks for the development team;
• Communicate the product vision, requirements and priorities to the team during sprint plannings and reviews;
• Verify that the developed product meets the business needs by cooperating with project managers and business analysts;
• Participate in acceptance of the product by the business (reviewing deliverables at each cycle);
• Guarantee existence of complete and adequate documentation for the product (user instructions, specifications, technical information). Participate in its drafting.

Required Skills

• University degree in IT combined with relevant IT professional experience of 17 years;
• Proven track record of managing and prioritising a complex product backlog, defining product roadmaps, and delivering incremental value in short iterations;
• Experience working on IT systems that support public administration, regulatory compliance, or policy implementation (e.g. reporting obligations, licensing or permitting systems, registries);
• Proven ability to work with legal texts and delegated/implementing acts to derive clear system requirements;
• Ability to specify and validate conceptual API designs (REST/JSON or equivalent) and to ensure that API capabilities support business and legal needs;
• Experience managing products in an ecosystem where GUI front‑ends and machine‑to‑machine interfaces must remain aligned;
• Experience with products deployed on public cloud environments and using managed services (e.g. database, object storage, logging/monitoring, etc.);
• Understanding of operational constraints and opportunities in using centralised corporate solutions and/or cloud‑based solutions (availability, observability, security, cost implications) and ability to factor these into product decisions;
• Familiarity (conceptual, not necessarily hands‑on) with technologies similar to those in the current stack (e.g. Java EE / WebLogic, Oracle databases, S3‑like storage, Elasticsearch, Angular‑based front‑ends);
• Strong experience in facilitating workshops and requirement‑gathering sessions with heterogeneous stakeholders (e.g., policy units, IT, Member States, external partners);
• Knowledge of DevSecOps principles;
• Product Owner / Agile certifications such as Certified Scrum Product Owner (CSPO), Professional Scrum Product Owner (PSPO I/II), SAFe Product Owner/Product Manager or equivalent is required;
• Excellent command of the English language.

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