Technical Product Owner

Talan is an international advisory group on innovation and transformation through technology, with 5000 employees, and a turnover of 600M€.

We offer our customers a continuum of services to support you at each key stage of your organization's transformation, with 4 main activities:

• CONSULTING in management and innovation : supporting business, managerial, cultural, and technological transformations.
• DATA & TECHNOLOGY to implement major transformation projects.
• CLOUD & APPLICATION SERVICES to build or integrate software solutions.
• SERVICE CENTERS of EXCELLENCE to support the latter through technology, innovation, agility, sustainability of skills and cost optimization.

Talan accelerates it's clients' transformation through innovation and technology. By understanding their challenges, with our support, innovation, technology and data, we enable them to be more efficient and resilient.

We believe that only a human oriented-practice of technology will make the new digital age an era of progress for all. Together let's commit!

PLEASE NOTE: it is a hybrid role in Warsaw, Poland

We are looking for a Technical Product Owner who will be part of the global strategic program with focus on the BackOffice Workflows stream that aims to redesign and implement a new orchestrated solution for the global back-office workflow. This young and multicultural team is distributed between Spain, Poland, and Brazil. The technical stack is mainly Java SpringBoot, REST APIs and an BPMN orchestration platform (Camunda).

As a Technical Product Owner, you will be working and collaborating on a daily basis with several dev and support teams, business users, business analysts, product owners, production teams, etc.

What you will do in your work:

• Work in an Agile environment and continuously review the business needs, refine priorities, outline milestones and deliverables, and identify opportunities and risks.

• Develop, own, and execute the product roadmap.

• Translate product roadmap features into well-defined product requirements including features, user stories, and acceptance test criteria.

• Prioritize and maintain the sprint backlog for assigned products, balancing the requirements of stakeholders.

• Lead the product functional design process based on an intimate knowledge of the user, the business, and the technology.

• Responsible for innovation and end-to-end launch of products.

• Participate in Scrum meetings and product sprints.

• Set sprint goals.

• Plan releases and upgrades.

• Follow progress of work and address production issues during sprints.

• Identifying potential risks in projects and taking proactive measures to mitigate them.

• Support the team and the product!

Experience & Education:

• 5+ years of experience in similar roles and technologies;

• 3+ years of experience on working in Agile Teams and tools, like JIRA and Confluence;

• Bachelor degree in Computer Science / Information Technology or a related field, or substantial practical experience of software delivery at an advanced level;

• Knowledge of Scrum methodology as well Waterfall;

• Elementary knowledge in financial products in the wholesale banking environment;

• High level of English;

• Knowledge of Spanish (desirable);

• PMI PMP Certification & CSPO Certification (desirable).

Skills & Knowledge:

• Technical background and experience on delivering enterprise applications;

• Organizational, time management and leadership skills;

• Excellent attitude and ability to adapt to different environments and work teams in a management role;

• Motivation, responsibility, and outstanding involvement in critical and committed situations;

• Notable interest in assuming new challenges with flexibility and adaptability;

• Used to work in teams with very dynamic environments and a high component of uncertainty;

• Interest in learning new technologies and contribution to Digital Transformation;

• Pragmatic and results-oriented.