Technical Product Owner

February 19

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Bluegrass

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Bluegrass is a company that specializes in delivering digital solutions, particularly focusing on app and software development. They have positioned themselves as leaders in the development of mobile apps and various software integrations. Bluegrass works with clients to deliver tailored technology solutions, emphasizing their expertise with platforms such as Optimizely CMS and API integration. They invite potential clients to partner with them for upcoming tech projects.

UX • Web design • EPiServer CMS • Web development • Veeva platform

11 - 50 employees

Founded 1998

🤝 B2B

☁️ SaaS

🔌 API

📋 Description

• You will work closely with all teams within the business including sales, client services, design, development, and quality assurance teams. • You must have a solid technical background and experience delivering technical projects. • Your role will be multi-faceted, as described in your key responsibilities below. • You will be the ultimate custodian for the delivery of high-quality solutions for our client projects by ensuring all stakeholders are aligned with regards to the scope and requirements and the final output against them, basically owning the end-to-end solution. • Supporting the Sales process by analysing initial client briefs and project requirements to provide accurate cost estimates and detailed proposal documentation. • One of your most important responsibilities is to ensure that every project Bluegrass delivers is properly planned, scoped and the right solution is proposed within a SOW document, based on various factors including client requirements, budgets, and timeline expectations. • This includes interpreting business rules / requirements and helping the team (and client) to formulate the right solution for the project. • Work closely with Designers to conduct and run client workshop sessions, to uncover project requirements and problems to be solved and mapping these back to the solution to be delivered. • Where required define the Information Architecture for new projects and assist with the creation of interactive Figma wireframes and prototypes and making appropriate recommendations during the UX / Prototyping phase that will positively impact the design process and the end solution. • You will own the product backlog helping to groom, prioritise and estimate, and you will be required to breakdown projects into Epics and write the associated user stories per feature, outlining for the development team the functional requirements and business rules/logic. • You will be the go-to person for the project team answering any questions concerning your product solutions. • You will drive project scoping, requirements gathering and the documentation thereof into user stories and specifications. • Will oversee the QA testers on your projects and signoff on the final solution from a quality perspective; conduct QA testing yourself where required. • Produce technical documentation of a consistently high standard, which can be shared with clients and which clients find easy to understand.

🎯 Requirements

• 7+ years within a software development or technical environment • Experience delivering software development projects from scratch including, custom website builds and Mobile applications (iOS, Android etc) • CMS Experience – strong hands-on experience with at least one CMS platform. • Optimizely and Umbraco experience is very advantageous • Experience interfacing with clients and managing client expectations • Experience working with Agile / SCRUM methodologies and ability to help refine & implement this process • Experience using project management tools like Atlassian JIRA (advantageous) • Experience tracking sprint roadmaps versus timelines to gauge project progress • Experience planning resources and tracking project timelines/roadmaps and project budget estimations and reporting against these • Excellent project administration skills, especially using tools like Microsoft Excel and MS Project to manage project budgets and timelines – this is essential • End to end project testing and ability to implement ‘Testing & QA’ processes • Good understanding of website analytics and data analysis to guide project solutions • Good knowledge of SEO, especially concerning technical ‘onsite’ SEO best practices • Experience working with Cloud Environments – Microsoft Azure (preferred) • Experience with Cloud backup strategies, automation, disaster recovery strategies, cloud security • Good understanding of source control best practice and branching strategies, using tools like GIT, Bitbucket, Sourcetree • Good understanding of CI/CD processes – Microsoft DevOps (preferred) • Good understanding of DevOps tools and process – Docker; Kubernetes; GIT; New Relic (advantageous) • Scripting experience i.e. BASH or Python or PowerShell • Excellent troubleshooting skills, with the ability to identify technical issues, database anomalies, website performance issues related to underlying database issues or Cloud app service infrastructure via application insights • Experience creating high quality, well-formed and well-written documentation • Military-like organizational and time management skills, with the ability to very comfortably juggle multiple projects/tasks • A team player with good interpersonal skills to deal with various personalities • Excellent command of the English language, both written and verbal • Razor sharp eye for detail – you don’t miss anything