Product Owner in Daily Banking with German
Commerzbank AG
The Daily Banking Cluster in Commerzbank is building the bank’s online banking application. With over 1 million daily users and over 15 million API calls per day and growing, this is one of the largest projects of its kind in Europe. Utilizing modern technologies such as React, Java-based microservices, Oracle, Kafka, Docker and OpenShift, and together with other teams in Prague who are building the partner mobile app, we are building a next-generation online banking experience.
We are now putting together a new team in Prague and looking for best-in-class talent to build a new tool in the online banking portal for our small and medium-sized business customers, helping them to manage their daily finances.
Given the high-profile of the application, this new team has a huge responsibility, making this an intensive, exciting and truly unique opportunity to expand and develop your organizational skills and international experience.
As PO, you will be primarily responsible for working with the Business Analysts in the team to gather and understand requirements from the project’s internal stakeholders. This will require extensive use of German and involve regular travel to Frankfurt to analyse and understand the business workflows to be implemented.
Additionally, you will hold end-to-end responsibility for prioritizing work and delivering to the project stakeholders in the agreed timeframes. Your team will be based fully in Prague and will consist of Business Analysts, Developers, UX experts, DevOps and architects. It will be your responsibility to work with this team to understand requirements and deliver them to the expected quality, as well as considering non-functional requirements.
As we are transforming a traditional bank into a digital agile enterprise, we are looking for a compassionate leader to build a collaborative team focussing on technical excellence with the customer at its heart, to deliver a top-class software project.
Your tasks
- Develop the product vision, the product road map, and work rigorously towards it.
- Maintain a product backlog of epics and stories, following the above vison.
- Provide the team with the information and support they need to organise themselves.
- Work closely with the internal stakeholders not just to deliver their requirements, but to understand their business processes to be able to offer alternative solutions.
- Act decisively in the interest of the product whilst considering sometimes competing needs of the stakeholders and aspects such as technical debt.
- Meet all the regulatory, compliance and audit requirements on time.
- Be involved in incident, request, change and problem management.
- Investigate production issues together with business experts and operations.
- Act cross-functionally between stakeholders, business experts and operations and facilitate the communication between all of them.
- Drive continuous efficiency optimization with the team.
Your profile
- Bachelor’s degree in economics, engineering or related field.
- Business/banking knowledge and understanding of corporate banking and related IT & business processes.
- Project coordination with the ability to understand the needs of the end-users and stake holders.
- Excellent understanding of SCRUM, Kanban and other agile methodologies.
- Team Player with the ability to quickly establish good working relationships.
- Excellent organizational skills.
- Strong collaboration skills with a focus on incremental delivery.
- Analytical and conceptual thinking, systematic approach.
- Effective facilitation skills. Should be able to facilitate group discussions & meetings with various teams within and outside the bank.
- Natural leader with the drive to be successful together with the team.
- Result orientated to meet agreed timelines, often driven by external requirements.
- Hands-on attitude, pro-active and open communication.
- Strong communication skills, written and spoken, in both English and German.
- Learn fast, to be able to work in the complex and the fast-changing banking environment.
- Action orientated: able to follow up on feedback from the end-users and stakeholders to develop positive outcomes.
Our Benefits
- 30 days of vacation
- Employer-funded pension
- Flexible work
- working from home
- Work internationally
- Employee conditions
- Digital learning
- Diversity
- Family & job friendly
- Friendly work environment
- Inspiring company culture
- Diverse tasks
- Work-life balance
30 days of vacation; Employer-funded pension; Flexible work; working from home; Work internationally; Employee conditions; Digital learning; Diversity; Family & job friendly; Friendly work environment; Inspiring company culture; Diverse tasks; Work-life balance
The company
In Commerzbank Digital Technology Centre Prague, we are transforming a traditional bank into a digital agile enterprise! We provide a wide range of various IT solutions, .Net and Java development, services in the area of application operation and infrastructure. As a part of Commerzbank Group, we work closely together with the Delivery Organisation of more than 50 different Clusters in our Headquarter in Frankfurt and around the globe.
We are looking for thinkers with unconventional ideas and in return, we offer the freedom to create own job with own vision, wide range of benefits including home office. Sounds interesting?
Contact
In case of interest, please apply via this jobportal.
