IT Product Owner (f/m/x)

Description

The technology centre in Bucharest is part of the company's global technology organisation in Central and Eastern Europe. Since opening in 2013, it has delivered global technology products and services and plays a major role in the company's technology transformation.

You will join a hands-on engineering team that values continuous learning, sharing knowledge, building technical skills and networking. The team's applications support many important business areas and form part of the company's core technology platform.

The company looks for people who act responsibly, think commercially, take initiative and work well with others.

Responsibilities

• Define and communicate the product vision and roadmap together with business owners, delivery teams and solution or system architects.
• Manage and rank the backlog so that value delivery is built into agile planning through prioritised features and enablers.
• Refine the product backlog on an ongoing basis, reordering items by criticality, cost and value.
• Act as the main contact for business and engineering stakeholders, giving them timely, transparent updates backed by metrics.
• Own and build the backlog for a team delivering automation across Private Bank Germany.
• Build close relationships with users and customers to gather requirements, shape the vision, roadmap and release backlog for sustainability products, and drive adoption.
• Work with the programme manager, architecture and engineering leads to set and deliver product strategy.
• Help the product move to a scaled agile framework as it grows.
• Serve as the team's expert on sustainability topics.
• Make sure testing follows the bank's and the domain's standards, and push for further gains through automated testing.
• Guide and lead teams across several locations on management, technical and domain questions, and act as the senior escalation point for all stakeholders.
• Take part in the full development cycle, working closely with your squad.

Requirements

• At least 5 years as a product owner or in product management in an agile environment.
• At least 5 years in financial services or banking, on projects or with teams using BE technologies such as microservices, flows, BPMN and diagrams.
• Confident leading requirement and priority discussions with senior business stakeholders, and explaining business concepts and requirements to engineers.
• Experience building technology products that involve data sourcing, management, analytics and reporting, including prototyping, requirements workshops and delivery.
• Experience as an agile product owner in a Scrum or scaled agile framework, including JIRA, Confluence and running agile events.
• Understanding of financial products and data across investment, corporate and private banking.
• Knowledge of and interest in sustainability in financial services is a plus.
• Solid grasp of IT processes, software development and software operations, plus engineering practices such as test-driven development and continuous integration.
• Proven ability to use AI tools to raise productivity and streamline workflows to solve business problems, applying sound judgment to use data and AI outputs responsibly and ethically.

Conditions

Hybrid working with 40% remote work.

Flexible working hours are available.

24 days of holiday, loyalty days and bank holidays, with weekday replacements for bank holidays that fall on a weekend.

Equal opportunity: applications are welcome from everyone, and the workplace aims to be positive, fair and inclusive.

Benefits

• Mental health: support through life crises, illness and day-to-day wellbeing, a culture where mental health can be discussed openly, and managers who value your ideas and decisions.
• Physical health: private healthcare and life insurance with premium cover for you and discounts for your family, check-ups, and healthier ways of working.
• Social life: a modern office with relaxing areas, retailer discounts, cultural and CSR activities, workshops and events that build collaboration.
• Learning: a continuous learning culture with coaching and support from team experts.
• Finances: competitive pay, promotions based on performance, meal vouchers and referral bonuses.
• More details are available in the company's Well-being & Benefits hub.