Scrum Product Owner - Jobs in Montreal Quebec

Job Description

We are looking for a talented Scrum Product Owner to accomplish the delivery of IT solutions. The successful candidate will work in a virtual team environment and will partner with other IT teams as well as external vendors.We require a highly motivated individual who thrives in a constantly changing and exciting environment to apply creativity and innovation in the development of solutions essential to support FMS currentamp; future success. Key Responsibilities:

• Collaborate with program manager to incorporate feature requests into product roadmap
• Work with internal customers to analyze needs
• Develop and maintain a backlog of epics / user stories
• Determine minimum viable product
• Collaborate with the business analysis team to refine user stories and acceptance criteria so they are clearly understood by the development teams
• Assess and prioritize stories to ensure work focuses on those with a maximum value
• Prepare and lead the sprint planning sessions and sprint reviews
• Set sprint goals
• Represent team in front of stakeholders and users
• Follow progress of work and solve product related problems, make decisions, perform trade-off analysis to stay on track towards commitments
• Collaborate with the team members to refine our Agile methodology based on results and feedback

RequirementsQualifications and Competencies:

• Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Software Engineering or similar domain
• 2 years+ experience as Scrum Product Owner or similar role
• Deep understanding and hands-on experience with Agile methodologies (Scrum, SAFe, etc.)
• Professional Scrum Product Owner (PSPO) or SAFe Product Owner / Product Manager training and certification
• Ability to work with cross-functional teams to deliver on a common goal
• Understanding of software development lifecycle
• Strong analytical and problem solving skills
• Experience defining requirements and solutions related to operational processes
• Excellent ability to see the business problem and business solution in the eyes of the customer
• Excellent organizational and time management skills
• Attention to details
• Ability to manage multiple projects and priorities
• Comfortable working with and presenting to all management levels
• Excellent verbal and written communication and negotiation skills, management of stakeholder expectations
• Interpersonal skills and developing relationships with team members and customers

Preferred Skills:

• Previous work experience in a business analyst, system analyst or software developer role
• Proficiency with Agile tools (Jira, Confluence, etc.)
• Proficiency with Microsoft Office tools (Word, Excel, Powerpoint, Project, Visio)
• Experience with database systems such as Oracle, SQL Server, MySQL or others
• Bilingualism (English and French) is a requirement in Quebec
• Knowledge of the Field Services domain, tools / processes
• Experience in Telecommunications

Working Conditions:

• Type of job: Temporary Contractor – 1 year with the possibility to extend
• Work hours: Monday - Friday, 40 hours per week
• Ability to work efficiently in virtual teams. Conference calls and video calls are routine, as is handling multiple parallel projects.
• Availability to work occasional weekends and evenings to meet hard deadlines and available to work occasional overnights to take part in deployment activities
• Ability to travel within Montreal, Ottawa, and Toronto corridors with advance notification; travel depending on project needs (occasional only)
• Fast paced, changing working environment