DIGITTMIIExpert product owner (EPO) - Far-site

WORKING METHODS ENVIRONMENT AND CONDITIONS

Work: Farsite (fully remote)
Nationality required: EU only!
Project duration: 1200 days
Initial contract duration: 220 days
Expected start date: 16/06/2025

SPECIFIC EXPERTISE

Following specific expertise is mandatory for the performance of tasks:
   At least 10 years of specific expertise in Agile management (Scrum Kanban Lean project management).
   At least 10 years of specific expertise in Enterprise Architect (Sparx Systems).
   At least 10 years of specific expertise in UML.

CERTIFICATIONS & STANDARDS

Mandatory certification (one of):

   Certified Scrum Product Owner (CSPO)
   Professional Scrum Product Owner (PSPO)
   SAFe Product Owner or equivalent.

DESCRIPTION OF THE TASKS

Following tasks will be performed by external service provider:

   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.
   Typically supervises several business analysts.
   Possesses an indepth knowledge of goals and desired objectives of the project.
   Interacts and validates requirements with the business
   Propose solutions by combining IT tools and business process refactoring or improvements based on an indepth 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.
   Is involved in the decisionmaking process related to user stories scheduling into sprints.
   Participates in project planning daily standup meetings (SCRUM).
   Participates to retrospectives sprint and release planning demos and other Scrumrelated meetings.
   Reviews deliverable and demonstrable product version/software functionalities after every sprint.
   Organizes live demonstration of the product at the end of the sprint.
   Facilitates the acceptance of the product by the business.
   Develops and maintains standards for testing.
   Provides progress reporting.
   Assists with internal and external communication by improving of transparency and dissemination of information.
   Assists with prioritization and resolution of defects / bugs.
   May perform the role of Scrum master.
   Interaction with the business analysts customer users project leaders and the developers.

KNOWLEDGE AND SKILLS

Following skills and knowledge are required for the performance of the above listed tasks:

   Experience with large enterpriselevel multiuser Information Systems.
   Experience in Agile development.
   Good knowledge of agile toolbox (i.e. JIRA Confluence BigPicture Gliffy Balsamiq etc.).
   Good knowledge of Application Management Lifecycle.
   Good knowledge of agile process and methodologies.
   Excellent leadership and conciliation skills.
   Communications skills both verbal (e.g.: presentations seminars etc.) and written (e.g.: reports articles etc.).
   Promotion skills (selling the results of architectural approaches through presentations).
   Ability to participate in technical and business meetings and communicate clearly on technical matters.
   Ability to apply high quality standards.
   Ability to cope with fast changing technologies.
   Very good communication skills with technical and nontechnical audiences.
   Excellent knowledge broker.
   Delegation and decisionmaking skills.
   Autonomous with strong organisational and timemanagement skills.

Due to the particular nature of a large international organisation such as the European Commission candidates should also have the following nontechnical skills:
   Capability of integration in an international/multicultural environment rapid selfstarting capability and experience in working in team.
   Ability to participate in multilingual meetings.
   Ability to work in multicultural environment on multiple large projects.
   Excellent Team Player.
   Ability to understand speak and write English (C1/C2) and French (C1/C2). Other European languages will be an advantage.
   High degree of discretion and integrity is required as the applications managed and maintained in DG CONNECT Unit R3 contain personal and confidential data.

Qualifications :

A minimum educational qualification is: Level of education corresponding to Level 7 of the European Qualification Framework which typically corresponds to a master degree of 5 years.

In case of a missing master you can still apply with Bachelor degree but we need to deduct 4 years from your total experience.

Remote Work :

No