A leading technology company in Ireland is looking for an experienced Product Owner to drive and prioritize product features for their solutions. In this role, you will work closely with various teams to ensure the product backlog represents market needs and strategic objectives. Candidates should have a bachelor’s degree, at least 3 years of experience in a similar role, and a strong understanding of Agile methodologies. The position may require international travel and offers a dynamic work environment. #J-18808-Ljbffr
Select how often (in days) to receive an alert: The Product Owner plays a pivotal role in driving the success of FINEOS solutions by defining and prioritizing product features that deliver measurable business value. Acting as the voice of the customer, the Claims & Absence Product Owner ensures that the product backlog reflects market needs, strategic objectives, and client expectations. This role partners closely with Product Management, engineering teams, and stakeholders to translate vision into actionable user stories and maintain alignment throughout the development lifecycle. As an Agile Product Owner, you will: Own and manage product backlogs, prioritizing & sequencing based on business value and market insights. Communicate product vision and goals clearly at the start of each release and sprint. Collaborate with cross-functional to ensure timely delivery of high-quality solutions. Leverage industry knowledge and stakeholder feedback to validate requirements and optimize outcomes. This position requires strong analytical skills, a deep understanding of insurance and absence management domains, and the ability to balance strategic thinking with execution in a fast-paced, agile environment. Responsibilities (Other duties may be assigned.) Translate the product roadmap into actionable backlog items for Scrum teams, ensuring clear acceptance criteria and user stories. Own and manage the product backlog, prioritizing and sequencing according to business value and strategic objectives. Participate actively in Agile ceremonies, including daily scrums, sprint planning, reviews, and retrospectives, ensuring readiness for each sprint. Collaborate closely with the Product Manager to evolve the backlog through the full product lifecycle, from ideation to implementation. Engage with clients and stakeholders to define and refine product features, ensuring alignment with market needs and customer expectations. Challenge stakeholders to achieve a coherent, complete, and credible understanding of requirements, ensuring principles underlying the domain are identified and described. Distil inputs from multiple sources (market research, client feedback, internal teams) into actionable requirements that solve real market problems. Define software capabilities to meet understood requirements, including usability, and provide engineering with sufficient guidance to ensure progress. Expert knowledge of the existing suite and its future evolution must inform this. Create and maintain artefacts such as wireframes and documentation to communicate requirements effectively to engineering and stakeholders. Validate and own acceptance of delivered software, ensuring it meets usability standards, and overall product vision, and demonstrate its value to stakeholders. Champion quality and continuous improvement, driving defect elimination and maintaining development velocity. Act as a bridge between business and technical teams, facilitating informed collaboration and knowledge transfer. Stay informed on industry trends and regulatory changes, ensuring product features remain competitive and compliant. Education and/or Experience Bachelor’s degree in Business, Computer Science, Insurance, or a related field preferred. Minimum 3+ years of experience as a Product Owner, Business Analyst, or in a related discipline with a software product vendor. Experience in insurance or financial services domain is an advantage. Proven experience working in Agile/Scrum environments; familiarity with frameworks such as SAFe or Kanban is desirable. Knowledge, Skills and Abilities Strong understanding of business analysis, process mapping, and complex domain modeling. Ability to uncover and solve market problems, assess business value, and translate needs into actionable features. Skilled at challenging stakeholders to achieve clarity and completeness in requirements. Ability to envisage software features that solve market problems while balancing cost, risk, and feasibility. Excellent communication and presentation skills, with the ability to engage effectively at all organizational levels and with external clients. Strong analytical and problem-solving abilities, with attention to detail and quality. Comfortable working in a cross-functional, global team environment and managing multiple priorities. Technical Skills Working knowledge of Agile tools (e.g., Jira,) for backlog management and collaboration. Familiarity with enterprise software concepts, APIs, and SaaS delivery models. Ability to create and interpret wireframes, domain models, and technical artefacts. Understanding of usability principles and experience validating software against defined requirements. Language Skills Proficiency in English , both verbal and written, with the ability to communicate complex concepts clearly. Travel Requirements International travel may be required. The work environment characteristics described here are representative of those an employee encounters while performing the essential functions of this job. Reasonableaccommodationsmay be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions. Employee works primarily in a home office environment. The home office must be a well-defined work area, separate from normal domestic activity and complete with all essential technology including, but not limited to; separate phone, scanner, printer, computer, etc. as required in order to effectively perform their duties. Work Requirements Compliancewithall relevant FINEOS Global policies and procedures related to Quality, Security, Safety, Business Continuity, and Environmental systems. Travel and fieldwork, including international travel may be required. Therefore,employeemust possess, or be able to acquire a valid passport. Mustbe legally eligible to work in the country in which you are hired. FINEOS is an Equal Opportunity Employer. FINEOS does not discriminate on the basis of race, religion, color, sex, gender identity, sexual orientation, age, non-disqualifying physical or mental disability, national origin, veteran status or any other basis covered by appropriate law. All employment is decided on the basis of qualifications, merit, and business need. #J-18808-Ljbffr
The System Architect in Test is responsible for improving Testing across FINEOS and ensuring that tooling, processes and standards are in place to ensure FINEOS continues to deliver a high quality service. Key activities including developing and expanding test frameworks to satisfy testing capabilities of distributed software as well as applying test automation practices to multiple products and teams. Responsibilities (Other duties may be assigned.) Planning and rolling out initiatives across multiple teams and trains Creating and driving business cases that will raise the bar of quality and test practices and outputs. Coaching members of SCRUM teams in test automation and troubleshooting Coaching test automation leaders in maintaining and expanding test frameworks Documenting approaches to test automation capabilities Designing and developing changes to test automation framework based on requirements from multiple teams Managing releases of testing software for external teams and customers Rolling out changes to the test automation framework in controlled and backward-compatible manner for multiple teams and projects Roll out the changes to Behavioral and Test Data Driven testing across the organization Education and/or Experience A relevant third level qualificationor equivalent commercial experience in software engineering Over 10 years of relevant experience in test automation with at least 6 years of experience in designing and maintaining test automation frameworks Very good knowledge of Java including proven exposure to functional programming and aspect-oriented programming patterns ISTQB Agile tester certification or at least 5 years of experience as Test Lead Knowledge, Skills and Abilities Very good skills of troubleshooting distributed applications and frameworks Excellent coaching and mentoring skills Proven ability to roll out test management practices using Xray or Zephyr Proven ability to providing KPI for test automation using reporting frameworks Technical Skills Proven exposure to using Serenity BDD and Screenplay Pattern in BDD Proven exposure to managing infrastructure using following AWS: ECS, Batch, EC2, CloudFormation and Stacks Proven exposure to Jenkins, Groovy and Gradle Proven exposure to using Kubernetes and Docker compose Proven exposure to managing Selenium Grid Proven exposure to REST applications and Swagger Contracts Language Skills Ability tospeaktheEnglish languageproficiently, both verbally and in writing. Travel Requirements This position may require adhoc occasional travel. #J-18808-Ljbffr
