Technical Product Owner, Auto Development Norway

Santander Consumer Bank Nordics; Bærum; On-site; NOK 600,000 - 800,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading Nordic bank is seeking a Technical Product Owner in Bærum, Norway. In this role, you will enhance business operations by managing the Product Vision, Roadmap, and Backlog while collaborating with stakeholders. Required skills include strong knowledge of Scrum and experience with Azure DevOps. This dynamic environment encourages impactful decision-making and offers a collaborative corporate culture.

Benefits

Opportunity to work in a high-performing international company

Dynamic corporate culture

Collaborative environment across the Nordics

Qualifications

• Hands-on experience with agile development practices.
• Experience within the banking area.
• Experience with change management.

Responsibilities

• Participate and contribute to agile processes.
• Manage the Product Backlog and prioritize user stories.
• Act as the primary interface between stakeholders and development.

Skills

Strong knowledge of Scrum

Experience with Azure DevOps

Excellent verbal and written communication

Ability to motivate stakeholders

Education

Bachelor’s degree or higher in a technical field

Job description

Technical Product Owner, Auto Development Norway

Join Our Team as a Technical Product Owner

In this role, you will play a key role in ensuring that all business-as-usual (BAU) systems effectively serve the needs of the business by providing the required functionality. You will be responsible for maintaining and documenting the Product Vision and Roadmap in close collaboration with stakeholders and development teams. Additionally, you will manage a well-prioritized Product Backlog, consisting of clear and actionable user stories with defined acceptance criteria. Your expertise and collaboration will be vital as you participate as an experienced partner in the Nordic development planning processes.

Key activities:

• Participate and contribute to agile processes across the organization
• Being the primary interface between stakeholders, development team and management
• Release planning and contributing to product vision and roadmap
• Defining, maintaining and prioritizing the backlog for responsible area

Competencies and skills required:

• Strong knowledge of Scrum or other agile methodologies, estimation and scope management in particular
• Experience with the Azure DevOps platform
• Ability to completely understand complex business and technical issues
• Excellent verbal and written communication and collaboration skills
• Ability to motivate stakeholders and team members

Experience and education:

• Hands-on experience working with agile development practices
• Experience within the banking area
• Experience with change management and getting organizational adoption of best practices, coding guidelines, policies, etc.
• Experience with iterative/emergent architecture
• Experience with .NET frameworks nice to have, but not a requirement
• Bachelor’s degree or higher in a technical field
• Certification or experience in areas related to product management and Scrum is an extra plus

We offer:

• An opportunity to work in a large, high-performing international company, in a dynamic environment that is constantly changing
• A corporate culture that is professional and dynamic, yet informal. Bureaucracy is kept to a minimum, as we expect our skilled employees to make long lasting and impactful decisions to shape our future
• Highly competent, dedicated, and friendly co-workers with strong collaboration across the Nordics

We are a Nordic bank with more than 1,200 colleagues in Sweden, Norway, Denmark and Finland, and proud to be part of Banco Santander, one of the largest banks in the world with a solid history going back more than 160 years.

Our purpose is to help people and businesses prosper and we aim to be the best retail and commercial bank, earning the lasting loyalty of our people, customers, shareholders and communities - through simple, personal and fair banking.

Santander Consumer Bank is one of the largest Nordic banks providing loans and credits, credit cards, deposits and insurance to private customers.

We are firmly committed to being a responsible bank in the way we operate, our culture, caring for our environment and giving back to society.