Sanlam Vacancies South Africa – Digital Product Owner

Job Description:

The development team is in search of a Digital Product Owner who will work closely with business area heads, scrum product teams and other product owners to build, manage and deliver value to the business; which entails: taking responsibility for the product or project life-cycle from concept, customer research and design, release planning through to development, initial support, feedback and improvement.

Job Responsibilities:

• Partner with business subject matter experts (legal, compliance, actuarial, etc.) and cross functional scrum product teams to elicit, define, clarify and prioritise business requirements
• Manage stakeholder expectations by: communicating roadmaps and requirements, negotiating and communicating priorities and timelines, managing change & providing necessary progress feedback
• Define objectives driven roadmaps, projects or process improvements in order to drive early and incremental return on investment taking into account bigger picture and be flexible with regards to changing priorities
• Develop and articulate a vision from which a business case for product or process improvement ideas must be developed
• Define minimum viable products (MVP) for the release of new products, process improvements or projects, with clearly defined growth or value experiments that will be validated by the release. This will include possible direction changes based on the reasonably expected outcomes of the experiments
• Understand technical debt and risk expressed by the Scrum teams: ability to negotiate the priority of the technical debt with the teams with consideration for the release plan and the ability to articulate the decision to other stakeholders.

Job Requirements:

• Data modelling techniques
• Presentable, assertive, team player with leadership qualities
• Excellent communication (spoken and written) and facilitation skills
• Previous work in an Agile environment as a Product Owner, Business Analyst or Systems Analyst
• Ability to pay attention to detail
• Experience working in an Agile environment
• Understanding SoapUI (SOAP) / REST client (JSON)
• Ability to deal with, communicate and manage fast and frequent change
• Exposure to the insurance and/or financial services industry
• Process and entity diagram mapping
• Experience working with consumer-facing digital technologies, such as websites and/or mobile apps. (Advantageous)
• A relevant track record working in a digital environment working as a Business Analyst or Digital Product Owner
• Analytical and delivery focused
• Atlassian tool suite (Jira, Confluence)

Job Details:

Company: Sanlam

Vacancy Type:  Full Time

Job Location: Midrand, Gauteng, South Africa

Application Deadline: N/A

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