Purpose of the position:               

Enable the business to achieve its goals by delivering the company's South African product lines. Deliver great products on time, on budget and to quality.

Responsibilities:

• Be responsible for delivering the road map for company's South African strategic products
• Work with the Product Delivery Manager and Product Manager(s) to translate the roadmap this into appropriate backlog(s) and user stories
• Deliver products using the appropriate agile project management methodology, learning & iterating frequently
• Drive and review business requirements (including Proposition design, customer journeys etc.)
• Write story level functional specifications and corresponding acceptance criteria
• Involve the team to provide development estimates
• Ensure adequate sign off on specifications from relevant stakeholders
• Creates Product Backlog(s) from the business requirements and priorities
• Manage inter development team dependencies, signs off and agree to BAU releases
• Run a quality process around product delivery to minimise the risk of customer detriment
• Create user stories to articulate business requirements
• Assists project manager or stakeholders with the development of project initiation documents
• Contribute to the improvement of the Product Delivery team’s aggregate level of capability
• Contribute to the improvement the Product Delivery processes and ways of working with the wider business
• Works with Product Delivery team during sprints to continuously clarify user stories or provide context to ensure all stories can be developed without impediment
• Work with the CTO to participate in the collaborative, dynamic planning process – prioritising the work that needs to be done against the capacity and capability of the team
• Identify, escalate and manage risks
• Work with key business stakeholders to ensure non-product functions are integrated into initiatives
• Matrix-managing a multidisciplinary team
• Ensure long term sustainability of the products through collaboration and with technical architects

Qualifications and Experience:

• Under-graduate/graduate level education
• Experience establishing, improving and driving adherence to processes
• Experience of software development and product / major feature launches (preferably in Financial Services)
• Experience of ‘bringing the company with you’, particularly departments not in the same reporting line
• Strong agile experience
• Experience of producing high quality requirements documents
• Must be able to garner respect from his/her team and be willing to get their hands dirty to get the job done
• Must be able to ensure Agile/Scrum concepts and principles are adhered to, must be able to be a voice of reason and authority, make the tough calls.

Our client is a leading online financial loan institute