Product Owner Search & Agile Coach (80-100%)

Job Description

This role is a dual role, product owner of the Search & Object Framework team and agile coach of the domain Functional Frameworks.

The Search & Object Framework team is a small, dynamic team of Software Engineers and Business Analysts located in Switzerland and Germany.

We follow an agile process, working closely with related teams to develop product features and provide support to our extensive global customer base.

Our products are the fundament to support our customers and internal product teams to create their own applications. We provide the search framework for the Avaloq data entities and are working on the next evolution of the search engine.

The domain Functional Frameworks owns most of the fundamental frameworks for the product teams, but also has essential products such as the various digital workplaces necessary for banking.

Your key tasks

As (technical) product owner

• Drive the evolution of the Search products and the object framework
• Organize and facilitate workshops with customers and partners
• Prioritize team's backlog in alignment with Product Management
• Break down new features into Epics and User Stories for the development team

As agile coach / domain scrum master

• Support the teams in the domain with their agile processes
• give regular outside-in feedback to the teams to increase the effectiveness of their processes
• Support the product owners with stakeholder meetings
• Facilitate effective communication & collaboration between teams, domains, divisions
• Train the scrum / kanban teams

Qualifications

• University degree in Computer Science or related discipline or equivalent experience preferred
• Ability to understand complex business requirements and present them to the development team
• Continuous improvement mindset and dedication to uncover better and more efficient ways of working
• Hands-on attitude with strong analytical skills
• Excellent communication and presentation skills

It would be a real bonus if you have

• Knowledge in search technologies (Elasticsearch / OpenSearch)
• Experience with Java, Spring Boot, Git, Kubernetes, Docker
• Good knowledge and sound understanding of database technologies (SQL, Oracle PL / SQL)

Additional Information

We realize that managing work life balance is a challenge we all face in our daily lives and in order to support with this we are pleased to offer hybrid and flexible working for most of our Avaloqers to maintain work life balance and still continue our fantastic Avaloq culture in our global offices.

In Avaloq we are proud to embrace diversity and understand the success of our business is built on the power of different opinions, we are whole heartedly committed to fostering an equal opportunity environment and inclusive culture where you can be your true authentic self.

We hire, compensate and promote regardless of origin, age, gender identity, sexual orientation or any other fantastic traits that make us all unique, we have done our best to write this advert in an inclusive and neutral way.

Please be aware that we will not accept speculative CV submissions for any of our roles from recruitment agencies, and any unsolicited candidate submissions will be exempt from any payment expectations.