Technical Product Owner @ING Hubs Romania

Location: Bucharest - Dacia One

Discover ING Hubs Romania

ING Hubs Romania offers 130 services in software development, data management, non-financial risk & compliance, audit, and retail operations to 24 ING units worldwide, with the help of over 2000 high-performing engineers, risk, and operations professionals.

We started out in 2015 as ING’s software development hub, then steadily expanded our range to include more services and competencies. Now we provide borderless services with bank-wide capabilities and operate from Bucharest.

Our tech capabilities remain the core of our business, with more than 1800 colleagues active in Data and Analytics Tech, Tech Foundation and Channels, Retail Core Banking and Architecture, and Global Products and Technology Services.

We enjoy a flexible way of working and a highly collaborative environment, where fair and constructive feedback is encouraged.

For us, impact isn't a perk. It's the driver of our work. We are guided and rewarded by a shared desire to make the world a better place, one innovative solution at a time. Our colleagues make it their job to do impactful things and they love doing it in good company. Do you?

Here’s a sneak peak of what our colleagues say about working within ING Hubs Romania:

At ING, we're building the solutions of tomorrow, today | 80% of our colleagues in Romania agree

The Mission

As CJE / Technical Product Owner you will be part of a team located in HUBS Romania, but you will also be involved in solutions used by multiple countries. You are responsible to plan and manage the delivery, run and support activities related to the technical solutions in scope, keeping a strong relationship with the relevant stakeholders. You are also responsible for building out and delivering the business requirements, business processes and resolving business constraints related to the solutions in your area.

You will work with multiple squads in HUBS Romania to implement the requirements generated by a business need or identified internally in the team. Also, depending on the specifics of the product, you might interact with squads from abroad for certain features/requirements.

Your Day to Day

• Creates, plans and maintains the Infrastructure backlogs in collaboration with the squads in accordance with the Infrastructure technical requirements and stakeholder requirements.
• Ensure business requirements are translated to the backlog as features or user stories (what is needed, for whom and why) and use of scrum team (how) to realize targets and mission the best way possible.
• Organizes all delivery, run and support activities to assure the SLAs and KPIs agreed
• Monitors delivery and run KPIs and assures that they are in accordance with the SLAs agreed.
• Maintains the improvement plan of the team as part of the overall backlog.
• Creates and manages the long-term roadmap for Infrastructure related projects
• Offers feedback and aligns with the chapter leads for the appraisal of people in the squads
• Participates in the Agile ceremonies, stand-up, planning and retro.
• Assists with the elaboration/refinement of the requirements to ensure they are granular enough for the squads to deliver within a sprint (two-week interval).
• Manage stakeholders by proactively communicating on progress, impediments and priorities.
• Provide an active role in mitigating impediments impacting successful team completion of Release/Sprint Goals

What you bring to the team

Bachelor’s degree (Technical studies, Business and/or Banking)

Experience in a Business/System Analyst or Product Owner role, preferable in an Agile environment

Familiar with Software Development Life Cycle and IT Processes

Product- and/or Project Management skills, including presentation and reporting skills

You have strong analytical skills and get energy of translating complexity into a clear vision and structure, always looking for ways to improve the status quo

You focus on delivery through collaboration, ability to bring people together to work towards the same purpose.

Comfortable working in an international context

You are ambitious, eager to learn, pragmatic and problem-solving.

Skilled in communicating complex topics and solutions and open to ideas from others

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