Product Owner/ Business Analyst

Technical Product Owner/Business Analyst – required for our client a global leader in consumer transaction technology. with their software, hardware and full range of services they make over 300 million transactions possible every day. In particular they offer solutions for payment authorisation (ATM, POS, Internet, Mobile, EFT etc), switching and routing, enterprise wide fraud detection and card fraud detection. They license their software to banks, retailers, acquirers and service providers on a global basis. They are now looking for a Technical Product Owner/Business Analyst

You will be responsible for;

* Collaborating with key stakeholders to define, develop, shape and refine requirements forming the Product Roadmap, short, medium and long–term

* Collaborating with technical architects to understand the functional and non–functional requirements needed to achieve the best quality product without over–engineering

* Provide the clarifications necessary to assist the team with their feature and story estimates and sequencing

* Enabling the team to execute frequent, reliable and continuous release of value–added, system–level software

* Prioritizing defects and enablers

* Building and reprioritizing the work and story back–log of the team when organizational priorities change working with Product Management

* Working with the team to define and implement improvement stories that will increase the quality of the program

Qualifications & Experience

* Strong knowledge of Agile development practices (especially Scrum), methodologies and tools.

* Direct hands on experience with writing features & stories, grooming and refining product backlogs and coordinating/prioritizing conflicting requirements in a fast paced, ever–changing environment.

* 2+ years' experience in the Payments industry.

* 4+ years' experience as Product Owner or Senior Business Analyst.

* Outstanding communication skills.

* Ability to understand and abstract complex systems from technical descriptions.

This is an exceptional role at the forefront of payments software in a financial environment, with great opportunities to progress within a global corporation. The role will be a mix of office and home–working