Product Owner - Payments - Jira - Hampshire (2days on site) 12 month contract
Posted 5 days ago by Octopus Computer Associates
Negotiable
Undetermined
Hybrid
Hampshire/Hybrid, UK
Summary: The role of Product Owner focuses on collaborating with software development teams and other payment service product families to drive initiatives related to regulatory compliance and product enhancements. The position requires strong communication skills and a solid understanding of payments, particularly in the card space, while utilizing agile methodologies. Candidates must be on-site a minimum of two days a week, with the remainder of the work being hybrid. Proficiency in JIRA and SQL, along with experience in writing user stories, is essential for success in this role.
Key Responsibilities:
- Collaborate with software development teams and payment service product families.
- Manage and prioritize the product backlog, including writing clear user stories.
- Conduct validation and testing to ensure product quality before production.
- Work with Scrum teams and manage both front-end and back-end development teams.
- Utilize JIRA for project management and tracking.
- Engage in Agile/Scrum practices across multiple sprints.
- Support QA skills around validation and defect management.
- Participate in the migration of applications from WebSphere to OCP.
Key Skills:
- Proficiency in Scrum and Agile frameworks.
- Understanding of the software development life cycle and basic coding concepts.
- SQL knowledge for writing simple queries.
- Experience in writing user stories.
- Familiarity with transaction processing life cycle: Authorization, clearing, and settlement.
- Agile Certification - Certified Scrum Product Owner (nice to have).
- Strong communication and collaboration skills.
- Ability to work flexibly with remote teams.
Salary (Rate): undetermined
City: Hampshire
Country: UK
Working Arrangements: hybrid
IR35 Status: undetermined
Seniority Level: undetermined
Industry: IT
(Product Owner, Jira, payments, must understand settlemetns, authorisations, hants, hampshire, guilford, surrey)
My client is looking for a product owner to work with the software development teams as well as collaborating with other payments services product families (Network Authorization, Settlement, Certification) to deliver different initiatives related to Regulatory, Compliance and/or product enhancements.
This role is heavily reliant on communication across participants and management, agile methodologies, Payment's knowledge and industry trends. Role is hybrid but candidates need to be on site minimum 2 days a week.
PAYMENTS KNOWLEDGE ESSENTIAL - IDEALLY FROM CARDS PERSPECTIVE
SKILLS: Proficiency in Scrum and other Agile frameworks is crucial for managing the product backlog, prioritizing tasks, and guiding the development team. Effectively managing and prioritizing the product backlog, including writing clear user stories Understanding the software development life cycle and basic coding concepts SQL knowledge - ability to write simple queries to retrieve data Ability to manage both Front End and Back End applications
Nice To Have Agile Certification - Certified Scrum Product Owner Understanding of transaction processing life cycle: Authorization, clearing and settlement
Specifically for this role:
Product owner with specific understanding in the card payment space of settlements, authorisations and clearing.
You must be very experienced in writing user stories,
Client uses JIRA so you must have experience of this.
You will also be doing validation and testing to check the product works before going into production and is not leaking defects so will need to support QA skills around validation
You will be working with Scrum teams and front and Back End development teams who are offshore. So good understanding of front and Back End applications. You will also need to be managing them.
You will also need basic SQL to ensure that you are able to query databases. Client uses 4 different sprints with each PI being 2 weeks so you will be working with the teams dealing in each of the sprints. So good experience and understanding of Agile/Scrum will help. You will be working on clients portal application which consists of 14 applications.
The one you will be working on is a migration from WebSphere to OCP Client works 3 days remote and 2 days on site.
May need to be flexible on hours as working with remote development teams in Asia.
Must be able to get to the office in Hampshire for 2 days a week as team are collaborative