Apex Systems is a division of ASGN Incorporated, the 2nd largest IT and 3rd largest Clinical and Scientific staffing firm in the U.S. Apex earned Inavero’s Best of Staffing® Client Diamond Award and Best of Staffing Talent Award for providing superior service to our clients and job seekers. Apex Systems provides organizations with scalable IT staffing and talent management services. We complement our staffing solutions with deliverable-based consulting services that enables us to help organizations drive better business performance. We serve Fortune 500, mid-market, and emerging companies in all major industries, including financial services, business services, consumer industrials, technology, healthcare, government services, and communications. With over 70+ locations, more than 1,000 recruiters and account managers as well as a candidate pipeline of more than 5 million throughout North America, we are equipped to serve our clients wherever needed.
We are looking for experienced Product Owners.
The successful candidates will lead development teams within our Scaled Agile Framework (SAFe) methodology to produce software solutions for various aviation industry players, such as airlines, aviation lessors and MROs.
Location: Gdansk
Poland
Objectives:
- Well documented business processes, use cases and activity flows
- Effective customer communications
- Well maintained backlog of requirements
- Clearly defined acceptance criteria per feature/story
- Effective agile processes (SCRUM, SAFe) and cross-functional communication
- Sign-off of successfully implemented stories and features (POSO)
- Contribution to continuous improvement and innovation
- Responsibilities:
- Interacting with customers to document their business processes, patterns of usage of software tools and identifying opportunities for added-value automation
- Assisting product managers in interaction with customers to understand their proper challenges and needs, assuring the software features in the roadmap are relevant and valuable to customers
- Refining high-level roadmap items into detailed feature specifications
- Breaking down features into stories in a format which is clear, unambiguous and well understandable to software development team
- Defining concise acceptance criteria
- Running effective refinement sessions to ensure the technical team understands well the scope of delivery for each story
- Assisting the technical team as reliable source of truth for the product
- Check and sign off developed software features, assuring quality gates are applied per the Definition of Done
Must have skill set:
- Bachelor’s degree or higher in a relevant domain of study
- At least 3 years of experience as a Product Owner within a software development team
- Proven capability of producing quality software functional requirements and effective development team communications
- Strong working knowledge of Microsoft Office applications, including Visio
- Experience with requirements management tools (Azure DevOps, Jira or similar)
- Proven analytical abilities
- Practical experience generating process documentation and reports
- Excellent communicator with the ability to translate data into actionable insights
- Nice to have:
- Experience in the aviation industry, particularly aircraft leasing and technical records management
- Experience with road mapping software (Aha!)
- Experience with business process analysis methodologies (IDEF0 or similar)
