Expert Product Owner

TL;DR

Expert Product Owner: Coordinating input and making decisions for agile development teams within large-scale projects for the European Commission with an accent on technical architecture, stakeholder management, and compliance with review processes. Focus on proposing IT solutions combined with business process improvements, validating requirements, and ensuring successful project implementation.

Location: Onsite in Belgium, working from the European Commission

Company

hirify.global is a global digital transformation company with a team of more than 4,900 global players across 26 countries, partnering with the European Commission.

What you will do

• Coordinate input for contractor(s) from an end-to-end perspective across the full development lifecycle.
• Work within an agile framework, making decisions regarding priorities, business value, and functionality.
• Oversee activities across multiple projects and contractors, ensuring compliance and monitoring task progress.
• Propose solutions combining IT tools with business process improvements.
• Act as a liaison between business analysts, customers, users, project leads, and developers.
• Supervise the implementation of the technical architecture and steer software architecture documentation.

Requirements

• Proven experience in autonomously managing activities within large-scale projects or programmes.
• Ability to translate business needs into functional solutions.
• Experience in data modelling and process modelling.
• Good knowledge of cloud architecture principles, microservices architectures, and relational database management systems.
• Understanding of artificial intelligence, machine learning, or high-performance computing concepts.
• Excellent communication skills with both technical and non-technical stakeholders and ability to produce clear technical documentation.

Culture & Benefits

• Join a dynamic company with technological challenges daily.
• Favourable environment that facilitates and promotes equal opportunities, non-discrimination, diversity, and inclusion.
• Focus on being Transformative, Creative, Honest, and Vibrant.