Offer summary

Qualifications:

Bachelor or Master degree in a relevant field., Over 10 years of experience as a Product Owner or Business Analyst., Extensive experience with Agile frameworks and software delivery processes., Fluent in English with strong stakeholder management and documentation skills..

Key responsibilities:

Build and maintain relationships with stakeholders and team members.

Lead Agile ceremonies like backlog refinement, demos, and retrospectives.

Define and manage user stories, acceptance criteria, and project documentation.

Support risk management, reporting, and continuous improvement initiatives.

Job description

We are urgently looking for a Senior Product Owner / Business Analyst in the region of Murcia. Candidates need to have a fluent level of English.

This position is remote and long-term. Candidates need to live and work in region of Murcia (max 2 hour drive) to make occassional meetings on-site possible.

Tasks and Responsibilities:

Builds constructive working relationships / partnerships with client product owners / key stakeholders and team members, facilitating strategic and execution alignment;
Owns and communicates the cadence for internal and client-facing ceremonies. Leads backlog refinement, demos and retrospectives; participates and advises in the daily stand up and sprint planning sessions;
Provides expertise and both big picture and detailed advice for team members (product engineers, QA engineers and scrum lead);
Structures delivery into epics, features and user stories;
Works with architects to define and agree solutions;
Liaises with relevant business and technology stakeholders to elicit and analyse requirements, define and document user stories using gherkin script, each with clear acceptance criteria;
Supports the testing / QA process;
Ensures that supporting documentation is either created or maintained to support end users;
Facilitates and manages risks, blockers and dependencies, escalating internally or to the client when required;
Ensures clear reporting and metrics are provided to demonstrate velocity and value to the client;
Supports, contributes to or leads client steering committee depending on the engagement;
Embeds a culture of continuous learning and improvement within the sprint team, with client counterpart teams and across the SQA Consulting organisation;
Looks for opportunities to increase client engagement;
Mentoring and supporting team members;

Profile:

Bachelor or Master degree;
+10 years of experience as Product Owner / Business Analyst;
10 years’ experience in the fields of business analysis and/or product management;
In-depth experience in leading projects using Agile frameworks – experience within Scaled Agile is an advantage. Able to give evidence of a proactive organised approach to delivery;
Background in software delivery and detailed knowledge of the SDLC is necessary;
CI / CD and DevOps awareness is an advantage;
Evidence of senior stakeholder management is also required;
Excellent documentation skills;
Conceptual and analytical thinking;
Track record of delivering business benefits and value;
Experience in developing top performing teams;
Strong reporting and presentation skills;
Track record of delivering client-facing projects and programmes;
Excellent planning and organisational skills;
Fluent level of English;