Product Owner
Vodafone
full-time
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Location Type: Office
Location: Midrand • South Africa
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About the role
- The Product Owner represents the business stakeholders and is the voice of the customer guiding individual DevOps teams
- Responsible for ensuring that the delivery team delivers value to the business according to the outcome vision
- Crafting customer-centric digital experiences
- Identifying opportunities for optimisation, simplification and digitisation of current journeys
- Defining and presenting the vision, motivating for sign off of identified opportunities, and for the definition of user stories
- Working closely with the Release Train Engineer/Agile Programme Manager and Scrum Master in coordinating daily activities such as sprint planning, retrospectives and other agile functions
- Responsible for the prioritization and delivery of the backlog of change initiatives to maximize business benefit
Requirements
- Bachelor’s Degree in Computer Science, Information Systems, Business Administration, or other related field
- A total of eight or more years experience of which at least three or more years is in the successful delivery in Product Ownership (or equivalent role)
- Experience in agile methodologies, such as Scrum, Kanban, Extreme Programming (XP), Test Driven Design and Behavioural Driven Design
- Experience in successful delivery against financial / resource constraints
- Experience in the use of analytics and AB / multivariate testing
- Experience with requirements definition and use case modelling
- Professional experience and knowledge of the Telecommunications industry strongly preferred
Benefits
- Enticing incentive programs and competitive benefit packages
- Retirement funds, risk benefits, and medical aid benefits
- Cell phone and data benefits
- Advantages fibre connection discounts
- Exclusive staff discounts offered in collaboration with partner companies
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Hard Skills & Tools
Product OwnershipAgile methodologiesScrumKanbanExtreme ProgrammingTest Driven DesignBehavioural Driven DesignRequirements definitionUse case modellingAnalytics
Soft Skills
Customer-centricMotivationalCommunicationCollaborationPrioritizationOrganizationalProblem-solvingVision definitionStakeholder managementDelivery focus
Certifications
Bachelor’s Degree in Computer ScienceBachelor’s Degree in Information SystemsBachelor’s Degree in Business Administration