PDM-Agile Product Owner

Technology is our how. And people are our why. For over two decades, we have been harnessing technology to drive meaningful change.
 
By combining world-class engineering, industry expertise and a people-centric mindset, we consult and partner with leading brands from various industries to create dynamic platforms and intelligent digital experiences that drive innovation and transform businesses.
 
From prototype to real-world impact - be part of a global shift by doing work that matters.

We are constantly growing and are now looking for experienced Product Owners to join our Endava team. As a Product Owner at Endava, you will act as the crucial link between our clients and our cross-functional teams. Your role will involve gathering client requirements, translating them into actionable tasks, estimating timelines, and guiding both clients and teams toward successful project outcomes. The opportunities for growth and personal development at Endava are substantial, limited only by your own ambition and curiosity.

Responsibilities activities of OPO:

• Prioritize items in the backlog for each team by discussing with OPOs.

• Join team scrum meetings

• Support team mainly with questions about resources, time estimate and prioritization issues, dependencies across SPs

• Making sure to report issues if needed, for example delays, or with support needed external to the team

• Sync with other OPOs

• Sync and participate in pre-study and SP meetings (combining all other areas of the product), and reporting the time plan

• Sync with test managers (TM) regarding testing and verification activities

• Sync and reporting to E2E integration

• Drive the backlog refinement meetings

• Planning the sprint together with the Scrum master and team

• Creating and updating time plan with the help of the XFT teams, the time plan can be for updating the documents of the prestudy and for delivery of the implementation, verification and testing activities, breakdown of activities

• Creating time estimate with the team

• +5  years of experience as an Agile Project Manager in the IT industry.
• PMP, Agile, Scrum, Kanban, Six Sigma, etc – Agile methods is a requirement; PMP cert is nice to have.
• JIRA, Trello, SmartSheets, Trello, Asana, Microsoft Project, Miro, etc 
• Scrum Master certification preferable.
• Experience in mentoring team members that have no previous agile experience.
• Knowledge of how to introduce Agile methodologies into new environments.
• Ability to enforce Scrum and other Agile principles and to explain the benefits to team members.
• Technical understanding and ability to provide some level of support/understanding to the consulting team.
• Excellent presentation skills and experience of presenting to senior level stakeholders.
• Highly self-motivated and able to work in an adaptable and flexible environment.

Discover some of the global benefits that empower our people to become the best version of themselves:

• Finance: Competitive salary package, share plan, company performance bonuses, value-based recognition awards, referral bonus;   
• Career Development: Career coaching, global career opportunities, non-linear career paths, internal development programmes for management and technical leadership;
• Learning Opportunities: Complex projects, rotations, internal tech communities, training, certifications, coaching, online learning platforms subscriptions, pass-it-on sessions, workshops, conferences;
• Work-Life Balance: Hybrid work and flexible working hours, employee assistance programme;
• Health: Global internal wellbeing programme, access to wellbeing apps;
• Community: Global internal tech communities, hobby clubs and interest groups, inclusion and diversity programmes, events and celebrations.