Product Manager/Analyst

£55000 - £60000 per annum
Scotland
Permanent


Financial Services Product Manager/Analyst – Glasgow - £55,000-£60,000


An opportunity to work in a team based in Glasgow for a global leader in financial services. You will be responsible for a work stream on a large project and will lead the implementation of said project. Working closely with the product owner and other team members, the candidate will be involved in all stages of the development life cycle from requirements gathering to post-release support.


An ideal candidate will have the drive to make new software products and the sophistication and experience to make it a reality. We are implementing agile software development methodologies (Extreme Programming, Kanban, Scrum, etc.) and are looking for business analysts excited about working in a progressive development environment. This is a fantastic opportunity to join a highly talent scrum team in a fun and challenging environment where learning and growth is supported and actively encouraged.


Key Requirements:

  • Teamwork
    • Work with the Product Owner to deliver stories successfully
    • Interact with business users to produce appropriately detailed and accurate stories
    • Ensure that stories are fully understood, and any extra information required by the developers is fed back to them
    • Work with and help other business analysts & developers to take group responsibility and ensure that the team delivers
  • Planning
    • Provide all information required by the developers to produce accurate estimates where possible in planning sessions, and where not possible ensure that all risks are recorded, and missing information is investigated
    • Continually critique team performance and feedback any suggestions or concerns in retrospective sessions
    • Continually refresh functional knowledge through training, reading, attending conferences, etc
  • Design
    • Consider best practices and development standards when participating in designing solutions
    • Ensure that relevant functional authorities and architects are involved to ratify design decisions
    • Work with Developers and business users to gather all required business knowledge to complete design & build
  • Development
    • Regularly demonstrate new functionality to the rest of the team, and to business users
    • Raise risks & issues
    • Be available to the Developers for any workshops or discussion of new functionality
  • Testing
    • BDD approach to requirements and testing.
    • Perform functional testing, investigating, and feeding back issues to Developers
    • Ensure that testing is appropriately documented, with evidence recorded
    • Help promote and implement automated testing for all regression tests and new functional tests

McGregor Boyall is an equal opportunity employer and do not discriminate on any grounds.

 

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