IT Product Owner

Náplň práce, právomoci a zodpovednosti:
About the Team and our Scope

Our team, a software house within Swiss Re, develops cloud-native (Azure-based) SaaS/PaaS solutions for external Life & Health insurance clients. Our portfolio includes established products like Magnum and those in growth or incubation stages, used globally. We utilize the latest technology and prioritize innovation to stay competitive.

Our technical team comprises over 150 professionals with multidisciplinary skills, located in various countries, delivering highly available, multi-regional solutions used worldwide.

About the Role

We are looking for an experienced IT Product Owner to lead the implementation of strategic and complex projects. You will ensure that the technology team delivers value to the business, oversee daily and strategic delivery of technical solutions, and act as the main interface between Product Management and engineering teams.

Your main responsibilities include conveying the product vision to the team, prioritizing the backlog, and setting the direction for product releases and sprints. You will manage application releases and identify technical improvements within your area.

Your responsibilities will be:

• Leads technology development efforts by describing vision, outlining work in the team backlog, and prioritizing it based on business value. The team itself has multi-functional skills to do the actual work (analysis, design, develop, test, document, operations, etc.). Uses appropriate methodologies (e.g. Agile).
• Analyze business requirements end to end to ensure they meet quality criteria to enable smooth delivery. Verify the underlying business need and identify potential solution options. Defines which features of a product are most important, when they are developed, etc. based on input from leadership and stakeholders.
• Reads, understands and validates technical designs meet solution needs for scalability, maintainability, cost effectiveness. Ensures that solution architecture and releases are developed aligned with the company governance and security policies.
• Sets team direction, breaks down concepts into manageable achievable steps, assesses risks / challenges, collects estimates for large and complex size initiatives and coordinates to stay on track with delivery.
• Plan the appropriate mix of functional and technical roadmap items to ensure that the solution they are managing remains scalable, maintainable and cost effective.

Zamestnanecké výhody, benefity:
- Attractive performance-based bonus
- Ultra flexible working time in hybrid setup, allowing you to work also from home
- Modern office spaces in attractive location
- 5 additional days of holiday
- Lunch allowance fully paid by Swiss Re
- Referral bonus
- Pension & risk insurance contribution
- Sick days and sick leave support
- Public transport benefit
- Multisport card

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Požiadavky na zamestnanca:
If you possess traits and experience that match most of the below, we’d love to hear from you:
• Extensive experience in information technology and software development management with a special emphasis on delivering cloud solutions for large enterprise.
• Demonstrated ability to discover and describe the current state situation, understand strategic business goals, design and articulate future state, perform gap analysis and make recommendations to business leadership that meet goals and requirements.
• Demonstrated ability to understand, translate and communicate technical and complex ideas and situations to a wide variety of audiences including clients, coworkers and management.
• Good competency of various technologies which may include cloud solutions, application development languages and frameworks, client/server systems, web and application servers, databases, etc.
• Strong analytical, problem solving and project management skills. Experience in leading IT projects and software development lifecycles.
• Strong abilities to manage a team, create a high-performance culture, monitor and improve delivery according to KPIs.
• Experience of leading multiple stakeholders often with competing demands and deadlines.