Job description
The Pepperstone story started in 2010. We know what it’s like to trade the world’s markets. Our team describes us as a place for the curious and the driven, and we like to do things a little differently; as a transformative global fintech we’re digital, nimble, connected, and united in our vision to create a better way to trade.
We thrive on progress – for our clients and for ourselves. Our organisational culture is ever-evolving, vibrant, diverse, global and results focused. You’ll find our 550+ team currently across 11 locations and 9 time zones.
The Role
Our technology team thrives on inclusivity and collaboration, believing that diverse perspectives lead to great solutions. We foster a culture that champions individual growth, professional development, and work-life harmony. We’re invested in your success and dedicated to supporting you every step of the way. We encourage our team to bring challenge thinking and fresh ideas to the table and our Agile approach empowers us to focus on outcomes. When we hire someone it’s because they bring the skills, attitude and experience we’re looking for….so we let you do what you’re best at! Join us and be part of a community that’s passionate about harnessing technology’s potential to drive market leading solutions for our clients. Elevate your career in an environment where your ideas matter, your growth is nurtured, and your potential is limitless.
Our Product Owners are responsible for translating future state product vision and IT strategy into prioritised team roadmaps and backlogs, ensuring valuable changes are delivered with a high level of quality. They will own the planning process, combining input from multiple sources to agree on a list of priorities for the teams.
The Product Owner facilitates the team progress through a series of agile ceremonies and represents the teams at the scaled agile events such as scrum of scrums and quarterly planning. Daily, the Product Owner will talk to various stakeholders to refine the scope of changes, make updates to the team backlog of Jira stories and tasks, plan and facilitate releases and associated business change, and follow the IT governance process to ensure transparency and alignment between the teams. The Product Owner will be sharing and celebrating delivery success to stakeholders and the wider business.
The Product Owner helps the team by providing clarity and focus, as well as defining the ways of working, focusing on continuous improvement, healthy collaboration and building psychologically safe environments.
The Value Proposition of our Enterprise Data function is that we put trusted, timely data and insights into the hands of our business so our internal customers can work effectively, efficiently and make decisions with clarity and confidence.
Some of the key outcomes of our Data & Analytics Strategy include deeper client & partner insights; increasing the reliability and availability of our data solutions; creating a single trusted view of our clients and partners; empowering teams with self-service access to data and analytics and increasing the data we have available for near real-time use.
Our Enterprise Data function is comprised of multiple delivery squads based on functional areas and geographic location of team members and is serviced by multiple Product Owners
As our Product Owner - Data Systems, your key responsibilities include, but may not be limited to:
Planning
● Using Agile methodology values, principles, and practices to plan, manage, and deliver solutions
● Define and own the delivery roadmap for the technical solutions
● Articulate value delivered by the team (in terms of commercial value, risk reduction, quality etc.)
● Drive roadmap planning for the team, deciding which initiatives and ideas can be prioritised for the upcoming sprints based on business priority, tech strategy, and team capacity
● Identify dependencies, blockers and risks to delivery and manage them accordingly
● Update the roadmap based on actual delivery process through sprints, and collaborate with stakeholders when the roadmap needs to be adjusted
Delivery
● Define all types of requirements (functional, non-functional, transition) for technology solutions
● Manage a backlog of stories and tasks in the priority order of the roadmap, define acceptance criteria
● Ensure that requirements are discussed and understood by the team
● Facilitate key agile ceremonies; present expected solution scope, monitor progress and roadblocks, manage quality of solutions, and improve ways of working
● Plan sprints with input from the delivery teams
● Perform first level acceptance testing before approving a piece of work for User Acceptance with the stakeholders
● Plan and facilitate the release process, manage stakeholder communications & corresponding change management
● Keep the team responsible for quality of work products
Governance
● Run regular retrospectives and focus on continuous improvement of both the products and the ways of working
● Identify and manage delivery risks and dependencies according to the company’s processes
● Track the team’s velocity and engagement metrics
● Provide relevant reporting on the status of delivery and follow the governance structure
● Plan and organise demos, facilitate collection and processing of feedback
● Contribute to the delivery practice via knowledge sharing and working on practice improvement initiatives
Collaboration
● The Product Owner will collaborate with the Enterprise Data Leadership Team when working on a technical roadmap and discussing the solutions scope/estimates
● The Product Owner will work closely with the General Manager, Enterprise Data who owns the vision and strategy for our Data & Analytics platform, services and products, as well as other stakeholders from the Technology and business teams (finance, operations, customer support etc.) to agree on requirements and priorities
● The Product Owner will be collaborating with other Product Owners and Business analysts to work on cross team dependencies and integrations
About You
● Previous experience in a similar role, e.g. Scrum Product Owner, SAFe Product Owner, Senior Business Analyst, Delivery Lead
● Experience in a data-centric development environment working closely with data & AI engineers, data analysts, data scientists, software engineers, data governance and integration specialists, or previous experience in one or more of those roles
● Experience working in an agile environment (preferably, scaled agile – SAFe, Nexus, LeSS, or other framework)
● Previous experience working on projects involving one or more data-disciplines from: data warehousing, BI, analytics, data science, AI, application development, CRM uplift, data migration, data platform uplift, MarTech, application integration, real-time data processing and analytics, or the introduction of data governance tools
● Previous experience of programs delivering a major capability uplift would be beneficial
● Previous experience of data management on AWS including Redshift, Snowflake or Databricks, Kafka, RDS and Tableau would be beneficial
● Ideally previous exposure to financial services or other regulated environments
● Previous experience working with Atlassian product suite (Jira, Confluence, Service Desk, Advanced Roadmaps)
Desired Qualifications
● Bachelor’s degree in a related field, such as computer science, engineering, or business
● Agile product ownership certification (CSPO or similar) or business analysis certification (CCBA/CBAP or similar) or project management certification (PMP or similar)
Why you will enjoy working with us
- Competitive salary structure including company bonus scheme
- Genuinely collaborative and friendly culture
- Flexible and hybrid working
- Remote working option - work from anywhere for up to 6 weeks per year, in addition to hybrid working as standard
- Ongoing personal development & learning opportunities
- 15 weeks paid primary carers parental leave & 4 weeks paid secondary carers leave
- 3 paid volunteering days per year & Workplace Giving Program
- Frequent events and celebrations including a standard weekly social
- Beautifully renovated large office at Collins Square - 727 Collins Street, Melbourne
- Best in class end of trip facilities including bicycle parking, change rooms & showers
- A full stocked kitchen, onsite coffee machines with locally sourced coffee beans (this is Melbourne after all) and curated specialty teas
About Pepperstone
We’re a regulated online Forex and CFD trading platform. With the scale of a global fintech and the agility of a start-up, we arm our clients with everything they need to take on the global markets with confidence. You will be part of a wider passionate and friendly team, and whilst things may not always go to plan, we learn quickly and move forward with impact. To learn even more visit Pepperstonecareers and www.linkedin.com/company/pepperstone/
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Pepperstone is an equal opportunity employer. We are passionate about building a diverse workplace and strongly encourage applications from any background.
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