Technical Product Owner (Java) / Team Head

Company Description

Founded and headquartered in Switzerland, Avaloq is continuously expanding its global footprint with around 2,500 colleagues in 10 countries, and more than 160 clients in 35 countries. We are an industry-leading provider of wealth management technology and services for financial institutions around the world, including private banks and wealth managers, investment managers, as well as retail and neo banks. Our research led approach and continual innovation is powered by the passion and creativity of our colleagues.
We are always looking for talented people to join us on our mission to orchestrate the financial ecosystem and democratize access to wealth management. Avaloq offers the opportunity to work closely with some of the world’s leading financial institutions as we jointly develop and shape careers. Championing a collaborative, supportive and flexible work environment empowers our colleagues to reach their full potential.

Job Description

Join our dynamic, agile team dedicated to crafting innovative solutions and driving digital transformation. Surrounded by highly motivated team members, you'll collaborate with passionate individuals committed to revolutionizing the industry. Embracing design thinking and user-centric design principles, we work closely with many internal teams as well as with our customers to ensure our solutions resonate with end-users.

As a Product Owner, you'll spearhead the implementation of roadmap items and new features for our cutting-edge tools and frameworks. Our products play a crucial role in empowering the transition to the container- and microservice-based architecture. Your mission involves close collaboration with software architecture, clients and development teams, from requirements gathering to communicating with the stakeholders on a daily basis. You'll translate complex business needs into actionable requirements, prioritize the team's backlog, and ensure quality assurance through comprehensive testing. In addition to these responsibilities, this role entails people management responsibilities, serving as line manager for the team members.

Your key tasks

- Collaborate closely with Product Management and development teams to drive feature implementation

- Draft detailed requirements documents and acceptance criteria for new features

- Decompose features into Epics and User Stories for agile development

- Prioritize backlog items in alignment with Product Management goals

- Ensure quality assurance through both automated and manual testing processes

- Facilitate workshops with stakeholders to gather feedback and insights

- Manage a team as a line manager responsible for the team’s growth and high synergy

Qualifications

- Bachelor's or Master's degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or related field and a minimum of five consecutive years of relevant experience

- Previous experience as a Product Owner

- Previous experience as a People Manager

- Demonstrated success in leading the implementation of software modules and features

- Strong analytical skills and a proactive, hands-on approach

- Excellent communication and presentation abilities, with fluency in English

- High proficiency in Java programming language

- Familiarity with Java frameworks such as Spring Boot and JPA

- Experience with Kubernetes, containerization, and microservices architecture

It would be a real bonus if you have

- Working experience with products like Jira, Confluence, Bitbucket, in an Agile Software Development environment

- Familiarity with modern cloud technology stacks

- Good understanding of messaging solutions like message brokers and Kafka

Additional Information

We realize that managing work life balance is a challenge we all face in our daily lives and in order to support with this we are pleased to offer hybrid and flexible working for most of our Avaloqers to maintain work life balance and still continue our fantastic Avaloq culture in our global offices. 
In Avaloq we are proud to embrace diversity and understand the success of our business is built on the power of different opinions, we are whole heartedly committed to fostering an equal opportunity environment and inclusive culture where you can be your true authentic self. 
We hire, compensate and promote regardless of origin, age, gender identity, sexual orientation or any other fantastic traits that make us all unique, we have done our best to write this advert in an inclusive and neutral way. 
Please be aware that we will not accept speculative CV submissions for any of our roles from recruitment agencies, and any unsolicited candidate submissions will be exempt from any payment expectations.