Your area of work:
We’re looking for a highly motivated Product Owner to join our international team to help us built reliable applications capable of processing sensitive data in a Big Data environment. If you are interested in financial markets, are fascinated by technology and like to work in a stimulating environment, then you are the person we are looking for.
You’ll be working in the StatistiX division within the Clearing and Risk IT department of Deutsche Börse Group. Being the central data warehouse and data platform, StatistiX constitutes an integral part of Deutsche Börse’s IT systems, providing insightful data to internal and external users on a global scale. The data gathered, maintained and calculated by StatistiX is consumed by multiple stakeholders of the financial ecosystem. Within StatistiX, we are not only controlling manifold nexuses of data streams, but also act as Business Intelligence and Analytics platform.
You’ll be part of the dynamic, committed and performance-oriented “StatistiX Dev Trading Regulation” team. The team is responsible for the creation and timely delivery of regulatory reports mainly consumed by external clients. Regulatory reporting is a rapidly emerging area within our company attracting a high degree of management attention. To a large part, you’ll be responsible for the development and maintenance of applications processing regulatory data. These applications, which process over a billion data records from the trading system every day, need to run reliably and are subject to constant change. Naturally, data correctness and integrity are of utmost importance. Overarching mission of the team is to implement regulatory business requirements within a scalable data platform architecture. In doing so, we take care of the entire lifecycle, from design and development to deployment in the production environment as well as ongoing maintenance and support.
Your responsibilities:
* Define and manage the product roadmap for the products/applications you are responsible for, aligning with business and functional requirements (focus is on MiFID/MiFIR regulatory reporting)
* Work closely with business and functional teams to gather, organize and prioritize requirements, ensuring clear and actionable user stories
* Intensely collaborate with developers, provide guidance and support implementation; clarify functional questions and resolve blockers so that high-quality software is delivered on time and within scope
* Act as the primary point of contact for internal and external stakeholders, ensuring seamless communication between development team and business colleagues
* Become a valuable expert for your products/applications and proactively drive innovative ideas or improvements
Your profile:
* University degree in relevant field such as Computer Science, Business Administration, Economics, Finance, or related discipline
* At least three years of experience as Product Owner or similar role, preferably in the financial services industry
* Excellent communication, organizational and problem-solving skills with a proven ability to work cross-functionally
* Familiarity with Agile development methodologies and tools like Jira.
* Knowledge of programming languages such as Scala/Spark, Java, Python, SQL, etc. or experience with technical tools like GitHub is highly valued
* Excellent written and verbal communication skills in English, German will be a plus
* Eager to learn about new technologies and business matters, willingness to bring the team to the next level