Expert product owner

We currently have a vacancy for an Expert product owner fluent in English, to offer his/her services as an expert who will be based in Brussels, Belgium. The work will be carried out either in the company’s premises or on site at customer premises. In the context of the first assignment, the successful candidate will be integrated in the Development team of the company that will closely cooperate with a major client’s IT team on site.

Your tasks

• Works within the agile process and is the final authority for decisions regarding priority, business value, and functionality for all the work done by the agile development team;
• Interacts and validates requirements with the business;
• Propose solutions by combining IT tools and business process refactoring or improvements based on an in depth understanding of a specific business domain;
• Creates, maintains, prioritizes, and sequences the product backlog based on business value or return of investment;
• Creates user stories and acceptance tests from themes and features granular enough for a single sprint;
• Participates to retrospectives, sprint and release planning, demos and other Scrum-related meetings;
• Performs the role of Scrum master.

• Master’s degree in IT or relevant discipline, combined with minimum 5 years of relevant working experience in IT;
• At least 5 years of experience with Java SE/EE;
• At least 5 years working experience with SOAP/REST webservices;
• At least 5 years working experience with Oracle DB;
• At least 5 years experience in Scrum methodology;
• Experience with large, enterprise-level multi-user and technologies Information Systems;
• Experience in Agile;
• Good knowledge of agile toolbox (i.e. JIRA, Confluence, BigPicture, Gliffy, Balsamiq, etc.);
• Good knowledge of Application Management Lifecycle;
• Good knowledge of Service Oriented Architecture;
• Good knowledge of applications design;
• Good knowledge of modelling tools;
• Good knowledge of Enterprise Architecture;
• Good knowledge of Relational DBMS;
• Good knowledge of business process analysis;
• Knowledge of interoperability technology (e.g. web services, message oriented middleware, service oriented bus);
• Good redaction skills;
• One of the following certifications is mandatory: Certified Scrum Product Owner (CSPO), Professional Scrum Product Owner (PSPO), SAFe Product Owner or equivalent;
• Following certifications are an asset: ITIL certification above ITIL foundation (or equivalent), Project management certification such as Prince2, PM² or equivalent;
• Excellent command of the English language.

If you are seeking a career in an exciting and dynamic company, where you will offer your services as part of a team of a major European Institution, operating in an international, multilingual and multicultural environment where you can expect real chances to make a difference, please send us your detailed CV in English, quoting reference (17788/10/2024).

We offer a competitive remuneration (either on contract basis or remuneration with full benefits package), based on qualifications and experience. All applications will be treated as confidential.

EUROPEAN DYNAMICS (ED) () is a leading Software, Information and Communication Technologies company, operating internationally (Athens, Brussels, Luxembourg, Copenhagen, Stockholm, London, Nicosia, Hong-Kong, Valetta, etc). The company employs over 1000 engineers, IT experts and consultants (around 3% PhD, 36% MSc and 53% BSc or equivalent). We design and develop software applications using state-of-the-art technology. The group generates annual revenues in the range of EURO 40 million, with an EBITDA in the range of 20%. The value of our contract portfolio exceeds EURO 250 million. EUROPEAN DYNAMICS is a renowned supplier of IT services to government institutions, multinational corporations, public administrations and multinational companies, research and academic institutes.

As part of our dedication to the diversity of our workforce, we are committed to Equal Employment Opportunity without regard for race, color, national origin, ethnicity, gender, disability, sexual orientation, gender identity, or religion.

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