Product Owner

About the job

We are looking to recruit a highly motivated Product Owner with a genuine interest in technology and a passion to deliver cutting-edge and high-quality software products.

Responsibilities

• Understand the overall product
• Attend team meetings including daily standups, planning, reviews and retrospectives
• Provide vision and direction to the team and stakeholders throughout the project
• Elicit and gather requirements from multiple sources, such as customer/stakeholders interviews and meetings, documents analysis, and research
• Identify functional and non-functional requirements and document them in a clear, concise, and complete manner
• Determine technical feasibility by evaluating analysis, problem definition, requirements, solution development, and proposed solution
• Analyze the impact of new requirements and changes, providing estimates to the effort needed for delivery.
• Participate in the software design process with the development team
• Document and demonstrate solutions by developing documentations, flowcharts, layouts, diagrams, charts, code comments.
• Author high quality product documentation such as, business requirements documents, software requirements specifications, interface specifications, and API contracts.
• Build and prioritize product backlog by populating it with user stories and defining their acceptance criteria
• Conduct backlog grooming and management, iteration planning, and elaboration of the user stories
• Accept completed user stories to ensure the work fulfills the acceptance criteria
• Demonstrate iteration/product to customers and product management and gather feedback

Requirements

• Previous working experience as a Product Owner / Business Analyst or a similar field for 2-5 years
• BSc in Computer Science, Engineering or similar relevant field
• In-depth knowledge of Agile/Scrum processes and principles; certification is a plus
• Outstanding communication, presentation and leadership skills
• Excellent verbal, written, and interpersonal skills in Arabic & English
• Excellent team player
• Excellent organizational and time management skills
• Sharp analytical, problem-solving, and research skills
• Attention to details
• Excellent knowledge in UML
• Excellent knowledge of building APIs and services using REST, Soap, etc.
• Excellent knowledge in project management tools such as Gitlab, JIRA, etc.
• Background in software development is preferred
• Experience in payment systems is a plus

Authorities

• Decide if a feature is accepted of not and hence merged on not
• Decide on what does a feature include and the system behavior
• Decide on iterations’ priorities
• Review, accept iteration outcomes