Expert Product Owner

Summary

Join Alter Solutions, an international IT and Cybersecurity consultancy, as a fully remote Product Owner for a 1200-day project (initial contract: 220 days, starting 16/06/2025). This EU-only role requires at least 10 years of experience in Agile management (Scrum, Kanban, Lean), Enterprise Architect (Sparx Systems), and UML. You will be the final authority on priority and functionality for the agile development team, supervising business analysts and interacting with stakeholders. The position demands strong communication, leadership, and technical skills, along with experience in large enterprise systems and agile methodologies. Fluency in English and French (C1/C2) is essential.

Requirements

• 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
• Certified Scrum Product Owner (CSPO)
• Professional Scrum Product Owner (PSPO)
• SAFe Product Owner or equivalent
• 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
• 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)
• High degree of discretion and integrity is required as the applications managed and maintained in DG CONNECT Unit R3 contain personal and confidential data
• Level of education corresponding to Level 7 of the European Qualification Framework which typically corresponds to a master degree of 5 years

Responsibilities

• 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

Preferred Qualifications

Other European languages will be an advantage