Technical Product Owner, Digital Channels - SCIB Málaga
Country: Spain
SCIB – DIGITAL CHANNELS is looking for a TECHNICAL PRODUCT OWNER, based in our MALAGA (Spain) office.
WHY YOU SHOULD CONSIDER THIS OPPORTUNITY
At Santander CIB (www.santandercib.com) we are key players in the transformation of the financial sector. Do you want to join us?
Santander Corporate & Investment Banking (SCIB) is Santander's global division that supports some of the world's most complex and sophisticated corporate and institutional clients, offering customized services and value-added wholesale products to best meet their needs.
Santander is proud of being an organization where there are equal opportunities regardless of gender identity, culture and disability. Our mission is to contribute to help more people and business prosper.
We embrace a strong risk culture and all of our professionals at all levels are expected to take a proactive and responsible approach toward risk management.
WHAT YOU WILL BE DOING
As a Technical Product Owner you will leads and owns the development and performance of a specific IT product throughout its entire lifecycle: analysis, monitoring, development, maintenance, and continuous improvement.
You will work closely with development squad teams, supports the creation of user stories in line with business product owner peers, coordinates testing activities and approves release plans.
Accordingly, is responsible of the compliance and adherence of optimum technical quality & performance standards within the IT products they interact.
We need someone like you to help us in different fronts:
- Leads the proposal for a specific process/area for impulse the digital transformation looking for efficiencies in the processes and adding value to users.
- Must have a clear vision of how the user experience should be in any digital channel and is able to focus the user stories always looking for the optimal user experience.
- Lead the translation of user stories into detailed technical requirements and technical tasks to feed developer squad teams, providing a systems perspective and identifying impacts and dependencies. Ensures the applicable definition of ready / definition of done requirements get documented accordingly.
- Support stakeholders to prioritize user stories and technical items that, defects coming from L0/L1/L2 IT Operation group and tickets requiring L3 support (based on criticality and customer impact).
- Support the development squad teams to rebalance effort between user story development and defect/ticket resolution, on a daily basis.
- Facilitate critical dependencies management within the IT product and across products.
- Support the development of and the execution of acceptance tests based on acceptance criteria, coordinating all test activities, and ensuring that each story meets acceptance criteria.
- Continuously update the delivery team in case of business changes, in coordination with Business Product Owners and other peer Technical Product Owners.
- Approve the final release plan, in accordance with agreed priorities and dependencies, in collaboration with the Release Manager.
- Analyse and report delivery, progress, risks and opportunities.
- Ensure that the technical debt is properly managed, with the support of SW Architecture leads.
EXPERIENCE
- +6 years of relevant IT work experience, including experience in user management, scope changes and digital channel projects.
- 5 to 8 years’ of experience working with technical teams in full stack development, including: data modeling, object oriented programming, cross platform development (C++, Java, Objective-C, Swift, JavaScript – one or more languages); implementation, integration and enhancement of 3rd party APIs; browser development, testing and debugging tool, Java Script.
- Experience on digital channels (web and/or apps) projects, transformation or evolution programs.
- Experience in large transformation programs within banking clients.
- Experience in Corporate and Investment Banking products will be very well valuable.
EDUCATION
- Bachelor’s Degree in Computer Science, Information Systems, or other related field. Or equivalent work experience.
SKILLS & KNOWLEDGE
- Front End Technologies as Angular, Node, API development and strong integrations view.
- Knowledge of unit testing, performance testing, and client-side end-to-end testing (UI testing) and associated frameworks and tools. Experience writing unit tests.
- Working experience with Relational SQL and NoSQL databases, data acquisition and data warehouse related services.
- Must have a "can-do" attitude and strong communication skills.
- Great leadership to lead and motivate great development teams to a common goal.
- Practiced ability to analyse, develop and implement complex programming solutions.
- Ability to execute test plans, create test cases test data and contribute to appropriate software (including programming languages) development life cycle methodology and application of specialized business.
- Self-starter, works with minimal supervision and adapts well in a fast-paced Agile environment. Experience with Agile methodologies (Scrum, Kanban) and DevOps.
- Participates as a team member and fosters teamwork by inter-group coordination within the modules of the project.
- Effectively collaborates and communicates with the stakeholders and ensure client satisfaction.
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Banco Santander (SAN SM, STD US, BNC LN) is a leading commercial bank, founded in 1857 and headquartered in Spain and one of the largest banks in the world by market capitalization. The group’s activities are consolidated into five global businesses: Retail & Commercial Banking, Digital Consumer Bank, Corporate & Investment Banking (CIB), Wealth Management & Insurance and Payments (PagoNxt and Cards). This operating model allows the bank to better leverage its unique combination of global scale and local leadership. Santander aims to be the best open financial services platform providing services to individuals, SMEs, corporates, financial institutions and governments. The bank’s purpose is to help people and businesses prosper in a simple, personal and fair way. Santander is building a more responsible bank and has made a number of commitments to support this objective, including raising €220 billion in green financing between 2019 and 2030. In the first quarter of 2024, Banco Santander had €1.3 trillion in total funds, 166 million customers, 8,400 branches and 211,000 employees.
