Sr Product Owner

ACI Worldwide; Cape Town; On-site; ZAR 1,200,000 - 1,500,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading payment processing company in Cape Town is seeking a Senior Product Owner. The role involves maximizing product value, managing the product backlog, and ensuring effective communication with stakeholders. Candidates should have over 8 years of experience in software development and possess strong leadership and organizational skills. This position offers competitive compensation and a supportive work environment.

Benefits

Competitive compensation and benefits

Growth and opportunity

Qualifications

• 8+ years of related work experience in software development tasks.

Responsibilities

• Maximize product value and manage the Product Backlog.
• Communicate the product roadmap and vision.
• Set priorities for backlog effectively.
• Clarify user story requirements for the team.
• Engage internal stakeholders to provide direction.

Skills

Leadership skills

Organizational skills

Technical understanding

Communication skills

Analytical skills

Problem-solving skills

Education

Bachelor's degree in related field

Job description

Join the Team Making Possibilities Happen

If you have ever used an ATM, paid a bill through your phone, sent money to a friend, or shopped online, chances are your transaction was safeguarded and processed using our software. Now it is your turn to serve the payment needs of organizations and people over the world.

Join us in the role of Sr Product Owner within our ACI Worldwide office, in Cape Town.

Job Summary:

Responsible for maximizing the value of the product and work of the Development team. Accountable for managing the Product Backlog, including adding/removing/grooming items and defining their priorities. Communicates vision of the Product and roadmap to their stakeholders, including their scrum team(s) and is responsible for prioritizing the product backlog to accomplish that vision.

Participates in all Agile activities including backlog grooming, sprint planning and sprint review.

Work with the team to groom backlog items: define acceptance criteria, help the team split and estimate stories. Chooses the right balance between feature development and technical (NFR) work to keep the product competitive. Available as needed to assist the scrum team with product questions and is given authority to make decisions about product features.

Job Responsibilities:

• Communicating the product roadmap and vision and sharing product expertise with the agile team/s
• Setting priorities effectively, i.e. prioritizing the backlog, and ensuring that the team understands why the stories are in a specific order to maximize the team’s output
• Elaborating/publishing user story requirements in a timely fashion
• Clarifying user story requirements/answering team questions quickly and concisely
• Creating clear, testable acceptance criteria for stories
• Participating in scrum team meetings (grooming, planning, review, etc.)
• Drive the agile team/s to break stories down into smaller stories that comfortably fit in a sprint and have business value
• Actively work with agile team/s to identify ways to increase velocity
• Engaging internal stakeholders and external contacts as needed to provide direction to the team.
• Drives maximizing the business value and quality output of the agile teams
• Provides guidance to other Product Owners while providing training/ acting as a mentor to junior Product Owners
• Takes on some product management activities as needed
• Perform other duties as assigned.
• Understand and adhere to all corporate policies to include but not limited to the ACI Code of Business Conduct and Ethics.

Knowledge, Skills and Experience required for the job:

• Bachelor’s degree in in related field or equivalent experience in software development tasks.
• 8 plus years of related work experience.

Preferred Knowledge, Skills and Experience needed for the job:

• Excellent leadership and organizational skills
• Strong ability to understand technical issues at a high level
• Demonstrates strong accountability
• Strong verbal and written communication skills
• Strong analytical and problem-solving skills
• Ability to operate as a change agent, influencing and driving action organizationally

Work Environment:

Standard work environment

Majority of time spent on PC (Phys. Req.)

Travel required, may be domestic or international

Benefits:

In return for your expertise, we offer growth, opportunity, and a competitive compensation and benefits package in a casual work environment.

ACI Worldwide is an AA/EEO employer in the United States, which includes providing equal opportunity for protected veterans and individuals with disabilities, and an EEO employer globally.