Job description
Company Description
Alter Solutions is an international IT and Cybersecurity consultancy company. We develop and secure your IT projects, and enhance your teams with our IT Outsourcing and Nearshoring services.
Job Description
WORKING METHODS, ENVIRONMENT AND CONDITIONS
Work: Far-site (fully remote)
Nationality required: EU only!
Project duration: 1200 days
Initial contract duration: 220 days
Expected start date: 16/06/2025
SPECIFIC EXPERTISE
Following specific expertise is mandatory for the performance of tasks:
• At least 10 years of specific expertise in Agile management ( Scrum, Kanban, Lean project management).
• At least 10 years of specific expertise in Enterprise Architect (Sparx Systems).
• At least 10 years of specific expertise in UML.
CERTIFICATIONS & STANDARDS
Mandatory certification ( one of):
• Certified Scrum Product Owner (CSPO),
• Professional Scrum Product Owner (PSPO),
• SAFe Product Owner or equivalent.
DESCRIPTION OF THE TASKS
Following tasks will be performed by external service provider:
• Works within the agile process and is the final authority for decisions regarding priority, business value, and functionality for all the work done by the agile development team.
• Typically supervises several business analysts.
• Possesses an in-depth knowledge of goals and desired objectives of the project.
• Interacts and validates requirements with the business
• Propose solutions by combining IT tools and business process refactoring or improvements based on an in-depth understanding of a specific business domain.
• Creates, maintains, prioritizes, and sequences the product backlog based on business value or return
of investment.
• Creates user stories and acceptance tests from themes and features granular enough for a single sprint.
• Is involved in the decision-making process related to user stories scheduling into sprints.
• Participates in project planning, daily stand-up meetings (SCRUM).
• Participates to retrospectives, sprint and release planning, demos and other Scrum-related meetings.
• Reviews deliverable and demonstrable product version/software functionalities after every sprint.
• Organizes live demonstration of the product at the end of the sprint.
• Facilitates the acceptance of the product by the business.
• Develops and maintains standards for testing.
• Provides progress reporting.
• Assists with internal and external communication by improving of transparency and dissemination of information.
• Assists with prioritization and resolution of defects / bugs.
• May perform the role of Scrum master.
• Interaction with the business analysts, customer, users, project leaders and the developers.
KNOWLEDGE AND SKILLS
Following skills and knowledge are required for the performance of the above listed tasks:
• Experience with large, enterprise-level multi-user Information Systems.
• Experience in Agile development.
• Good knowledge of agile toolbox (i.e., JIRA, Confluence, BigPicture, Gliffy, Balsamiq, etc.).
• Good knowledge of Application Management Lifecycle.
• Good knowledge of agile process and methodologies.
• Excellent leadership and conciliation skills.
• Communications skills, both verbal (e.g.: presentations, seminars, etc.), and written (e.g.: reports, articles, etc.).
• Promotion skills (“selling” the results of architectural approaches through presentations).
• Ability to participate in technical and business meetings and communicate clearly on technical matters.
• Ability to apply high quality standards.
• Ability to cope with fast changing technologies.
• Very good communication skills with technical and non-technical audiences.
• Excellent knowledge broker.
• Delegation and decision-making skills.
• Autonomous with strong organisational and time-management skills.
Due to the particular nature of a large international organisation such as the European Commission, candidates should also have the following non-technical skills:
• Capability of integration in an international/multicultural environment, rapid self-starting capability and experience in working in team.
• Ability to participate in multilingual meetings.
• Ability to work in multi-cultural environment, on multiple large projects.
• Excellent Team Player.
• Ability to understand, speak and write English (C1/C2) and French (C1/C2). Other European languages will be an advantage.
• High degree of discretion and integrity is required as the applications managed and maintained in DG CONNECT Unit R3 contain personal and confidential data.
Qualifications
A minimum educational qualification is: Level of education corresponding to Level 7 of the European Qualification Framework which typically corresponds to a master degree of 5 years.
In case of a missing master, you can still apply with Bachelor degree, but we need to deduct 4 years from your total experience.
