IT Product Owner

At Uni Systems, we are working towards turning digital visions into reality. We are continuously growing and we are looking for an IT Product Owner to join our UniQue team.

What will you be doing in this role?

• Coordinate with the team the input to be provided to the contractor(s) from an end-to-end point of view of the development cycle.
• Work within the agile process and take decisions regarding priority, business value, and functionality.
• Follow a number of activities across different projects and contractors requiring technical and project management skills.
• Understand and comply to a review process, monitor status of certain tasks, coordinate internally and gather input.
• Support Development Lifecycle of the project.
• Possess an in-depth knowledge of goals and desired objectives of the project.
• Validate requirements taking into account the relevant data space stakeholders.
• Propose solutions by combining IT tools and business process refactoring or improvements based on an in-depth understanding of a specific data spaces and initiatives.
• Be involved in the decision-making process related to user stories scheduling into sprints.
• Review deliverable and demonstrable product version/software functionalities after every sprint.
• Participate to live demonstrations of the product at the end of the sprint.
• Evaluate and facilitate progress reporting.
• Evaluate prioritization and resolution of defects/bugs.
• Interact with business analysts, customer, users, project leaders and the developers.
• Supervise the implementation of the technical architecture, including an analysis of the integration and interoperability of different existing open-source software building blocks that will be included in the cloud architecture.
• Steer/inspect/validate the software architecture documents.
• Assist during relevant parts of testing, analysis, technical documentation, deployment, evaluation, and reporting.

What do you need to succeed in this position?

• Master's degree in IT and minimum 15 years of relevant professional experience (or Bachelor's degree in IT and minimum 19 years of experience).
• Certification in one of the followings: Scrum Product Owner (CSPO), Business Analysis, Project Management (PMP, PMI, Prince2 Foundation,PM2).
• Strong experience with large projects, enterprise-level multi-user Information Systems.
• Extensive experience in Agile as well as agile toolbox (i.e. JIRA, Confluence, Big Picture, Gliffy, Balsamiq, etc.).
• Excellent knowledge of Application Management Lifecycle.
• Extensive experience with enterprise architecture best practices and frameworks such as TOGAF, COBIT, Zachman.
• Proven experience as business analyst within the EU Institutions.
• Good knowledge of cloud architecture frameworks and of Infrastructure as code.
• Practical knowledge of (Open-Source) data sharing tools (EDC, Gaia-X, others), models and standards (W3C DID, W3C DCAT, W3C ODRL).
• Good knowledge of applications design and modelling tools.
• Familiarity with Relational DBMS.
• Previous experience with business process analysis.
• Understanding of AI, Machine Learning or High-Performance services.
• Understanding of Infrastructure or data layer.
• Advanced English (C1) communication skills (written and spoken).

At Uni Systems, we are providing equal employment opportunities and banning any form of discrimination on grounds of gender, religion, race, color, nationality, disability, social class, political beliefs, age, marital status, sexual orientation or any other characteristics. Take a look at our Diversity, Equality & Inclusion Policy for more information.