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Sub-Product Owner (Advanced)
Job Location:
Job Location:
Pretoria - South Africa
Monthly Salary:
Not provided by the employer
Monthly Salary:
Posted:
21 August 2026 (30 days ago)
Posted:
Application Deadline:
23 November 2026
Application Deadline:
Vacancies:
1 Vacancy
Vacancies:
Job Summary
Reference: JHB001596-KF-1
ESSENTIAL SKILLS:
ADVANTAGEOUS SKILLS:
ESSENTIAL SKILLS:
- Proxy Product Ownership/Sub-Product Ownership experience
- Stakeholder Management upward and downward
- Jira and Confluence
- Deep knowledge of project management skills
- ITPM knowldge
- 8 years Business Analysis or similar experience of which 6 must be on custom developed solutions.
- Agile working experience (Mandatory).
- Analyse translate and communicate business requirements.
- Understanding of Cloud Computing (AWS).
- Understanding Software Development Cycle.
- Understand integration between different technologies.
- Identify Assess and Mitigate risks.
- JIRA and Confluence.
ADVANTAGEOUS SKILLS:
- Basic Cloud Certification (any Cloud Service Provider)
- Excellent usage of MS Office tools (Excel Word & PowerPoint).
Duties & Responsibilities
ROLE & RESPONSIBILITIES:
- Implement the product vision and roadmap.
- Research understand and evaluate product requirements on the part of business and translate them into high quality product backlog items.
- Structure and prioritise business requirements and communicate plans with stakeholders for review and approval.
- Proactively propose solutions to improve the support of (new) business processes.
- Maximizing product value within the available internal/external capacity per sprint and measure performance of these feature teams.
- Product Backlog Health -Assesses the readiness of backlog items ensuring they are well-defined and estimated.
- Release Burndown -Monitors the progress towards completing the items planned for the release.
- Create transparency regarding resources requirements competencies and implementation status to Products and Domains.
- Technical escalation to the Product Owner including facilitating end-to-end discussions with other Product Owners if necessary.
- Escalation of conflicts based on user requirements in the Product vision to the respective Product Owner: system specific for content escalation and all Product owners for capacity escalations.
- Adhere to the Agile Working Methodology
- Daily use of the Agile Tool Chain and content-wise steering of all team meetings including Stand-ups Sprint
- Review Sprint Retrospectives Sprint Planning meetings etc.
- Determine acceptance criteria/definition of done and evaluate the developed product scope decision regarding release or rework in the product backlog.
- Identify improvements to the Product Owner regarding the Product Owner hierarchy including the Feature
- Teams as well as all relevant internal functions at the company and external partners if necessary.
- Identify improvements in AWM execution towards the responsible Agile Master.
- Support the development implementation and follow-up of methods processes and standards for the
- provision of services in compliance with the law.
- Take consultative approach to challenge customers requested solution design should a better alternative exist.
- Excellent interpersonal skills to communicate and collaborate effectively (verbally and written) with both technical
- Project Management Certification is an advantage
- Leadership/Management Certification is an advantage
