Expert Product Owner

DESCRIPTION OF THE TASKS

Following tasks will be performed by external service provider:

• Works within the agile process and is the final authority for decisions regarding priority, business value, and functionality for all the work done by the agile development team.

• Supervises several business analysts.

• Possesses an in depth knowledge of goals and desired objectives of the project.

• Interacts and validates requirements with the business.

• Propose solutions by combining IT tools and business process refactoring or improvements based on an indepth understanding of a specific business domain.

• Creates, maintains, prioritizes, and sequences the product backlog based on business value or return of investment. • Creates user stories and acceptance tests from themes and features granular enough for a single sprint.

• Is involved in the decision making process related to user stories scheduling into sprints.

• Participates in project planning, daily stand-up meetings (SCRUM)

Participates to retrospectives, sprint and release planning, demos and other Scrum-related meetings.

• Reviews deliverable and demonstrable product version/software functionalities after every sprint. • Organizes live demonstration of the product at the end of the sprint.

• Facilitates the acceptance of the product by the business.

• Develops and maintains standards for testing.

• Provides progress reporting.

• Assists with internal and external communication by improving of transparency and dissemination of information.

• Assists with prioritization and resolution of defects / bugs.

• Performs the role of Scrum master.

KNOWLEDGE AND SKILLS

Following skills and knowledge are required for the performance of the above listed tasks:

• Experience with large, enterprise-level multi-user and technologies Information Systems.

• Experience in Agile.

• Experience in electronic document management (i.e. Documentum).

• Good knowledge of agile toolbox (i.e. JIRA, Confluence, BigPicture, Gliffy, Balsamiq, etc.).

• Good knowledge of Application Management Lifecycle

• Good knowledge of Service Oriented Architecture.

• Good knowledge of applications design.

• Good knowledge of modelling tools.

• Good knowledge of Enterprise Architecture.

• Good knowledge of Relational DBMS.

• Good knowledge of business process analysis.

• Knowledge of interoperability technology (e.g. web services, message oriented middleware, service oriented bus).

• Good redaction skills.

• Ability to cope with fast changing technologies used in application architecture and design.

SPECIFIC EXPERTISE

Following specific expertise is mandatory for the performance of tasks:

• At least 5 years working experience with electronic document management tool

• At least 5 specific expertise in Java SE/EE

• At least 5 years working experience with SOAP/REST webservices

• At least 5 years working experience with Oracle DB

• At least 5 years working experience in Scrum methodology