M-Pesa Africa Product Owner- Payment Remittance

Qualifications

• Strong understanding of digital services, smartphone app development and digital design practices
  
• Experience of software development lifecycle is essential, especially within agile methodologies (e.g Scrum, SAFe)
  
• Experienced in leading agile feature teams to deliver both new and continuous improvements to customers
  
• Experienced in the use of modelling tools (JIRA, Confluence).
  
• Strong process and analytical skills, able to identify solutions to complex problems.
  
• Strong business and customer focus, and an appreciation of customer led design and user experience techniques
  
• Ability to work proactively within a demanding environment, being a key contributor to a fast-moving product development process
  
• Able to communicate and influence with tact and diplomacy.
  
• Able to understand and explain complex technical concepts to business stakeholders
  
• Demonstrable numerical, analytical and verbal skills, in particular well-developed written and verbal communication skills in English.
  
• Experience working within a multi-national team and serving customers from multiple countries would be of benefit.
  
• Ideally educated to degree level, or equivalent
  

• Owning the team backlog - maintaining and prioritizing in line with Product Management direction and earliest delivery of value to our customers
  
• Taking content authority for the team backlog, ensures that quality of team’s documented user story and acceptance criteria follows agreed standards.
  
• Representing the end user and works with SME’s to understand requirements, supporting the definition of features and co-creating user stories and other required artefacts
  
• Working closely with the Product Management team to ensure features are well documented, and that business priority is understood and aligned with team activities
  
• Actively participating in team and program ceremonies, backlog refinement sessions, iteration planning activities • Leading the systems demo after each iteration • Performing preparation activities for program increment planning, helps drive PI objectives at team level
  
• Providing continuous feedback on development, and provides story acceptance in accordance with agreed acceptance criteria and ‘definition of done’
  
• Understanding the core technology platform capability and collaborate with developers in the best way to meet product objectives, acts as the customer for developer questions
  
• Working with System Architect to prioritize enablers