We are looking for a talented Scrum Product Owner to accomplish the delivery of IT solutions. The successful candidate will work in a virtual team environment and will partner with other IT teams as well as external vendors. We require a highly motivated individual who thrives in a constantly changing and exciting environment to apply creativity and innovation in the development of solutions essential to support FMS current & future success.
Key Responsibilities:
- Collaborate with program manager to incorporate feature requests into product roadmap
- Work with internal customers to analyze needs
- Develop and maintain a backlog of epics / user stories
- Determine minimum viable product
- Collaborate with the business analysis team to refine user stories and acceptance criteria so they are clearly understood by the development teams
- Assess and prioritize stories to ensure work focuses on those with a maximum value
- Prepare and lead the sprint planning sessions and sprint reviews
- Set sprint goals
- Represent team in front of stakeholders and users
- Follow progress of work and solve product related problems, make decisions, perform trade-off analysis to stay on track towards commitments
- Collaborate with the team members to refine our Agile methodology based on results and feedback
Qualifications and Competencies:
- Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Software Engineering or similar domain
- 2 years+ experience as Scrum Product Owner or similar role
- Deep understanding and hands-on experience with Agile methodologies (Scrum, SAFe, etc.)
- Professional Scrum Product Owner (PSPO) or SAFe Product Owner / Product Manager training and certification
- Ability to work with cross-functional teams to deliver on a common goal
- Understanding of software development lifecycle
- Strong analytical and problem solving skills
- Experience defining requirements and solutions related to operational processes
- Excellent ability to see the business problem and business solution in the eyes of the customer
- Excellent organizational and time management skills
- Attention to details
- Ability to manage multiple projects and priorities
- Comfortable working with and presenting to all management levels
- Excellent verbal and written communication and negotiation skills, management of stakeholder expectations
- Interpersonal skills and developing relationships with team members and customers
Preferred Skills:
- Previous work experience in a business analyst, system analyst or software developer role
- Proficiency with Agile tools (Jira, Confluence, etc.)
- Proficiency with Microsoft Office tools (Word, Excel, Powerpoint, Project, Visio)
- Experience with database systems such as Oracle, SQL Server, MySQL or others
- Bilingualism (English and French) is a requirement in Quebec
- Knowledge of the Field Services domain, tools / processes
- Experience in Telecommunications
Working Conditions:
- Type of job: Temporary Contractor – 1 year with the possibility to extend
- Work hours: Monday - Friday, 40 hours per week
- Ability to work efficiently in virtual teams. Conference calls and video calls are routine, as is handling multiple parallel projects.
- Availability to work occasional weekends and evenings to meet hard deadlines and available to work occasional overnights to take part in deployment activities
- Ability to travel within Montreal, Ottawa, and Toronto corridors with advance notification; travel depending on project needs (occasional only)
- Fast paced, changing working environment
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What We Do
Our mission is to empower operators to quickly ramp and operate IPTV by providing end-to-end services from solutions architecture/integration to deployment and ongoing lab support. We do this through our diverse world-class industry certified engineering team as well as through state-of-the-art automation tools. Our satisfied clients include Tier 1, Tier 2 and Tier 3 operators across the United States, Canada and Latin America.
