Description
Job Title: Technical Product Engineer
Location: London
Job Purpose and primary objectives:
Key responsibilities :
This is not a developer role, but we are looking for someone who can understand the application of technology well. The ideal candidate will have a technical background (foundation) allied with a track record of working on successful technical products and exposure to API development, developer tooling, micro-services, API standards definition and cloud-based platforms.
To ensure success as a TPA, you will also need great communication and analysis skills, attention to detail and know how to write a user story.
Principle Responsibilities:
- Work with the Product Owner, Engineers, Architecture and Business Stakeholders to elicit high-level requirements and capture business/customer needs
- Assess the benefits, risks and dependencies of various solutions
- Assist the Product Owner and with prioritization of competing business demands. Participate in release and strategic planning
- Deliver detailed business and systems analysis and define functional and non-functional requirements to deliver reliable robust resilient and secure software solutions meeting strict operational specifications on a timely basis
- Create structured epics and clear and concise user stories with acceptance criteria to communicate desired functionality Refine user stories with Engineering and QA to ensure they are ready for development
- Participate in agile ceremonies, support engineering teams and ensure your requirements have been delivered as specified.
- Support end of sprint, release and benefits realisation reporting
Requirements
- University Degree in Computer Science, Information Technology or a related discipline
- Knowledge of Business and System analysis techniques, including process and Datamodelling
- Strong analytical, design and problem solving skills
- Knowledge of Agile/Scrum principles and best practices
- Knowledge of API-driven development and best practices, especially in security perspective
- Ability to review functional/technical specification documentation
- Experience with Jira and Confluence
- Familiarity with and willingness to learn more about DevOps tool (Git, Jenkins, Splunk, AppD)
INTERNAL
- Strong business sense with good understanding in how IT systems impact business objectives
- Excellent team player with ability to work under minimal supervision
- Good command of written and spoken English.
- Knowledge or experience in Cloud technologies adoption such as AWS/Azure/GCP and event driven design and architecture
- Experience of working on financial systems and banking solutions.
Duration of the Assignment: 6 months