Senior Agile Product Owner

Role: Senior Product Owner

Professional Experience: Total 8-12 yrs. Of industry experience out of which at least 3 years as ‘Product Owner’ preferred.

Job Description Summary

An exciting vacancy has arisen for a senior role within the Technology Office, responsible for the timely delivery of high performing cloud software solutions and Mobile applications as part of the CCH Software suite of products.  These applications are critical to ensuring the efficient and profitable running of our customer's accounting practices.

Remit:

• Lead the scrum team in delivering software releases, following the SAFe development methodology.
• Support Business Analysts, Developers and QA testers so they have a clear understanding of each requirement along with testing and acceptance criteria.
• Work closely with the Product Management team to agree on short, medium- and long-term priorities for your applications.  (The Product Management team define the "what" needs to be done, while you are responsible for "how" the team will implement it).
• Work with other Product Owners to identify and manage cross-product dependencies and risk.
• Work with your Scrum Master to drive team improvement over time, leveraging Retrospectives to identify the key areas for improvement.
• Be responsible for the quality and timeliness of each release of your applications.
• Become an internally recognised expert and source of knowledge for your applications.
• Provide ad hoc assistance to customer facing teams within the business such as Professional Services, Sales, Product Management and Support.
• Maintain the Product Backlog within Azure DevOps/JIRA.
• Experience on Application platform as product owner.

The following Mandatory skill set is required:

• Experience within the accounting or finance industries strongly preferred.
• Experience in Agile software delivery model
• Experience in working with cloud accounting products developed using Azure/ AWS, Azure Event Hub, Azure App Service etc...

Nice to have Skills:

• Experience in dealing with Azure cloud technology experience,
• Experience in dealing with progressive Web application technology such as Angular 8
• A good understanding of Accounting Practice (as applicable) as Product Owner

Educational Qualification: Min. Graduate preferred.

Applicants may be required to appear onsite at a Wolters Kluwer office as part of the recruitment process.