Product Owner | Functional Architect

Job Description & Summary

The FCU Technology team at PwC Polska includes over 100 IT specialists. The financial services industry operates in a challenging environment due to global economic pressures, increasing regulatory and capital requirements, and significant operational and technological changes. As FCU Technology, we provide innovative technological solutions, data analytics and consulting services for global PwC clients, responding to key challenges in the area of Anti Financial Crime (Anti Money Laundering, Combating Terrorism Financing, Fraud Risk Management, FATCA and implementation of financial sanctions, etc.).

We are looking for: 
Product Owner/ Functional Architect 

Your future role: 

• Acting as a product owner for strategic PwC platform used internally and externally by our clients,
• Defining a product vision that would bring the greatest value to the customer,
• Creating and maintaining a product roadmap for product, aligned with business goals and customer needs,
• Collaborating with clients and stakeholders to understand their needs and translate them into product requirements,
• Identifying solutions based on proven best practices or new approaches,
• Preparing and documenting clear and comprehensive requirements,
• Prioritizing tasks and managing product backlog, including management of internal and external stakeholders expectations,
• Product development and optimization of its value using Agile framework,
• Tracking and monitoring the product progress at each stage of the development,
• Representing a team in front of stakeholders, clients or users,
• Coordination and synchronization of work of feature owners, business analysts,
• Taking part in Product Reviews and Product Demos.

Apply if you have:

• At least 8 years professional experience in the role of Product Owner and work with Product Backlog in the financial services area, as well experience in implementing new products and features,
• Experience in working with business and technical teams, defining requirements, establishing product backlog,
• Deep knowledge and practical experience in working in SCRUM,
• Experience with testing strategies  and leading the full life cycle delivery of projects,
• Understanding of IT development process and systems architecture,
• Higher degree (preferred Computer Science, Economics, Physics, Operational Research or related),
• Very good communication skills in English (C1),
• Strong interpersonal and soft skills - essential in day-to-day cooperation with clients and the team,
• The ability to cooperate with others on the implementation of tasks in an international environment,
• Product Management certification,
• Knowledge of Project Management methodologies.

Nice to have:

• AML/KYC domain knowledge (one of the key areas the platform is focusing on) is an additional advantage,
• Knowledge of Azure DevOps is a plus.

By joining us you also gain:

• Work flexibility - hybrid working model, flexible start of the day, workation, sabbatical leave,
• Development and upskilling - our full support during onboarding process, mentoring from experienced colleagues, training sessions, workshops, certification co/financed by PwC and conversations with native speaker,
• Wide medical and wellbeing program - medical care package (incl. dental care, freedom of treatment, physiotherapy), coaching, mindfulness, psychological support, education through dedicated webinars and workshops, financial and legal counseling, 
• Possibility to create your individual benefits package (a.o. lunch pass, insurance packages, concierge, veterinary package for a pet, massages) and access to a cafeteria - vouchers, discounts on IT equipment and car purchase,
• 3 paid hours for volunteering per month,  
• Additional paid Birthday Day off,
• And when you start enjoying PwC as much as we do, you may recommend your friend to work with us.

Recruitment process:

• CV verification,
• HC screening call,
• Interview. 

If you have additional questions, please contact us: pl_ITrecruitment@pwc.com

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