Expert Product Owner

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Lead an agile team as the primary decision-maker on business value and functionality while enhancing procurement processes and supervising multiple analysts.

At Uni Systems, we are working towards turning digital visions into reality. We are continuously growing and we are looking for a Expert Product Owner (with experience in Procurement and Contract Management) to join our UniQue team in Brussels.

What will you be doing in this role?

  • Work 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.
  • Supervise several business analysts.
  • Possess an in-depth knowledge of goals and desired objectives of the project.
  • Interact and validate requirements with the business
  • Propose solutions by combining IT tools and business process refactoring or improvements based on an in depth understanding of a specific business domain (see skills).
  • Create, maintains, prioritizes, and sequences the product backlog based on business value or return of investment.
  • Create user stories and acceptance tests from themes and features granular enough for a single sprint.
  • Involved in the decision-making process related to user stories scheduling into sprints.
  • Participate in project planning, daily stand-up meetings (SCRUM).
  • Participate to retrospectives, sprint and release planning, demos and other Scrum-related meetings.
  • Review deliverable and demonstrable product version/software functionalities after every sprint.
  • Organize live demonstration of the product at the end of the sprint.
  • Facilitate the acceptance of the product by the business.
  • Develop and maintains standards for testing.
  • Provide progress reporting.
  • Assist with internal and external communication by improving of transparency and dissemination of information.
  • Assist with prioritization and resolution of defects / bugs.
  • May perform the role of Scrum master.

Requirements

What will you be bringing to the team?

  • Master's degree & 8 years of experience in IT (non-overlapping with studies).
  • Hold the following certifications:
    • Certified SAFe 6 Agilist
    • Professional Scrum Product Owner I
    • Professional Scrum Master I (PSM I)
    • Scrum Product Owner Certified (SPOC)
  • Minimum 3 years of experience as a Product Owner.
  • Knowledge of request for quotation, submission and evaluation, awarding business processes for Procurement
  • Experience with contract financial and operational preparation, signature, amendment and execution
  • Experience with large, enterprise-level multi-user and technologies Information Systems.
  • Experience in Agile environments and good knowledge of agile toolbox (i.e. JIRA, Confluence, BigPicture, Gliffy, Balsamiq, etc.).
  • Ability to give business and technical presentations.
  • Very good communication skills with technical and non-technical audiences.
  • Capability to write clear and structured technical documents.
  • Proficiency in English language at a C1 level.

At Uni Systems, we are providing equal employment opportunities and banning any form of discrimination on grounds of gender, religion, race, color, nationality, disability, social class, political beliefs, age, marital status, sexual orientation or any other characteristics. Take a look at our  for more information.

With our people being the driving force behind everything we have achieved in our long history, we successfully provide consulting, design, implementation and support in the field of ICT integrated solutions and services through operations that span across 26 countries in Europe. We were the first company to begin in an informatics journey that started in 1964, and today, as a member of the dynamic Quest Group, we hold one of the most prominent positions in the sector and claim a seat among the most reliable ICT companies in Europe.We are systems integrators committed to providing innovative and agile solutions and value added services aimed at strengthening our clients’ positioning within a competitive and ever-changing international environment. Through our offices in Greece, Belgium, Luxembourg, Italy, Romania, and Spain, and with the valuable support of over 1100 highly talented UniQue people, we serve more than 700 customers across geographies and markets.At Uni Systems, we believe in the continuous development of our UniQue people with learnability lying at the core of our principles: our people participate on a regular basis in engaging learning activities, with technical trainings, leadership programs, workshops and e-learning courses through Udemy, Pluralsight, and LinkedIn Learning platforms being only few of them. Moreover, in collaboration with ALBA Graduate Business School we are offering a Mini MBA program designed to cover the needs of Quest Group’s employees. At the same time, UniQue talents are being recognized through a specially designed Talent Management program that helps us identify, maintain and develop the top talents within the company.Being a part of our team, in an open and welcoming environment where all voices are heard, brings an array of benefits such as opportunities to contribute to innovation initiatives, hybrid working models, trainings, private medical insurance, mental health programs and more.Based on the immense potential of our UniQue people we can reach excellence and produce sustainable value in the societies around us.Are you ready to #BeUniQue? 😎

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