About Talan
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!
For our offices based on Málaga, we are looking for a high experienced Product Owner for one of our biggest client in the banking sector.
What would be your role?
- Leads the proposal for a specific process/area for impulse the digital transformation looking for efficiencies in the processes and adding value to users.
- Must have a clear vision of how the user experience should be in any digital channel and is able to focus the user stories always looking for the optimal user experience.
- Lead the translation of user stories into detailed technical requirements and technical tasks to feed developer squad teams, providing a systems perspective and identifying impacts and dependencies. Ensures the applicable definition of ready / definition of done requirements get documented accordingly.
- Support stakeholders to prioritize user stories and technical items that, defects coming from L0/L1/L2 IT Operation group and tickets requiring L3 support (based on criticality and customer impact).
- Support the development squad teams to rebalance effort between user story development and defect/ticket resolution, on a daily basis.
- Facilitate critical dependencies management within the IT product and across products.
- Support the development of and the execution of acceptance tests based on acceptance criteria, coordinating all test activities, and ensuring that each story meets acceptance criteria.
- Continuously update the delivery team in case of business changes, in coordination with Business Product Owners and other peer Technical Product Owners.
- Approve the final release plan, in accordance with agreed priorities and dependencies, in collaboration with the Release Manager.
- Analyse and report delivery, progress, risks and opportunities.
- Ensure that the technical debt is properly managed, with the support of SW Architecture leads.
What are we looking for?
- +6 years of relevant IT work experience, including experience in user management, scope changes and digital channel projects.
- Proven track record and experience in developing IT processes and solutions, successfully executing programs that meet the objectives of excellence in a dynamic organization environment.
- Must have a "can-do" attitude and strong communication skills.
- Great leadership to lead and motivate great development teams to a common goal.
- Practiced ability to analyse, develop and implement complex programming solutions.
- Ability to execute test plans, create test cases test data and contribute to appropriate software (including programming languages) development life cycle methodology and application of specialized business.
- Self-starter, works with minimal supervision and adapts well in a fast-paced Agile environment. Experience with Agile methodologies (Scrum, Kanban) and DevOps.
- Participates as a team member and fosters teamwork by inter-group coordination within the modules of the project.
- Effectively collaborates and communicates with the stakeholders and ensure client satisfaction.
Job-specific competencies:
- Front End Technologies as Angular, Node, API development and strong integrations view.
- 5 to 8 years’ of experience working with technical teams in full stack development, including: data modeling, object oriented programming, cross platform development (C++, Java, Objective-C, Swift, JavaScript – one or more languages); implementation, integration and enhancement of 3rd party APIs; browser development, testing and debugging tool, Java Script.
- Knowledge of unit testing, performance testing, and client-side end-to-end testing (UI testing) and associated frameworks and tools. Experience writing unit tests.
- Working experience with Relational SQL and NoSQL databases, data acquisition and data warehouse related services.
- Experience on digital channels (web and/or apps) projects, transformation or evolution programs.
- Experience in large transformation programs within banking clients.
- Experience in Corporate and Investment Banking products will be very well valuable.