SAP Technical Product Owner

Summary

The Network and Technology Services district is a fast-paced and dynamic team focusing on SAP Delivery. The team’s mandate is to work with Bell corporate stakeholders and technology partners to deliver solutions that leverage Bell’s significant investment in its strategic IT platforms.  The team consists of Scrum Masters, Release Train Engineers, Product Owners and BI Architects that focus primarily on delivery of change within the SAP Enterprise Resource Planning (ERp) system.  The team collaborates with business stakeholders, external IT providers and external suppliers to deliver using Agile methodologies high-quality solutions to business needs.  This team’s primary business focus areas are IT solutions that support HCM and Payroll while integrating with other business units such as Finance, as well as infrastructure planning and installation.  The selected candidate would be expected to fully engage in with the IT team in supporting the project delivery.

Key Responsibilities

Works under the guidance of a Senior Business Analyst/ Senior Product Owner with the responsibility to:

• Work closely with business partners to gather and document the business requirements.
• Partner with development team and ensure proposed / final design deliverables are meeting business requirements, including design specifications, integration requirements, and system documentations, are to Bell Canada SAP IT Standard.
• Ensure adequate reviews and stakeholder approval of the end-to-end solution are acquired.
• Review and work closely with finance project stakeholders to ensure the deliverables produced conform to the business requirements within time and effort and project is adequately resourced.
• Crafts epics, features and user stories for the SAP transformation roadmap, working directly with the delivery teams to deliver value.
• Interface with 3rd party vendors and contractors, where required, to deliver necessary pieces of our technical product with time-to-market excellence.
• Lead the integration and user acceptance testing process; including preparation of acceptance criteria, review of the test plans and scenarios, review of test results as well as taking responsibility for end-to-end testing and obtain business approval.
• Contribute to the project planning and administration - assists in developing the project charter documentation, including helping with the high-level plan, the feasibility analysis, and in developing the business cases.
• Co-ordinate and facilitate where possible the project by organizing and leading project meetings, follow up on issues and sign-offs, produce status documentation and meeting minutes and inform team members of decisions made utilizing Agile toolset (such as Jira, Confluence, etc.)
• Conduct quarterly planning to plan and prioritize diverse improvement initiatives.

Critical Qualifications

• Proven experience working with technology teams and user experience teams in creating and delivering value.
• Experience owning the product backlog, prioritizing features based on business value, and ensuring alignment with overall business objectives.
• Strong computer proficiency with Microsoft Office tools (e.g., Word, Excel, PowerPoint, Visio and Access DB).
• Interest in career as a technical product owner or business analyst for Information Technology department.
• Agile delivery methodology and toolset (Jira, Confluence, etc..)
• Ability to work with big data sets, willing to learn new technologies and tools.
• Strong verbal and written communication and negotiation skills:

1. Ability to ask well thought out questions.
2. Listening skills (really listening).
3. Critical thinking.
4. Documentation skills.
5. Problem Solving/Analytical thinking
6. Understand and retain complex concepts
7. Self-directed
8. Experience virtual setting
9. Collaborative
   

In the course of their duties, this person will be required to interact with French & English speaking stakeholders across Canada

Preferred Qualifications

• Bilingual (French & English) is an asset
• SAFe Agile Experience preferred
• Knowledge in Agile framework delivery and Agile/DevOps transformations and/or in an Agile/DevOps role
• Preference for Post secondary degree with a business or IT focus, or equivalent
  
  
  
  

Additional Details

• Full-time role
• Available to work occasional weekends for deployments and evenings to address unexpected urgent issues
• Occasional travel in support of project delivery work