Senior Product Owner

Company Description

Company Description 
Accesa is a leading technology company headquartered in Cluj-Napoca, with offices in Oradea and 20 years of experience in turning business challenges into opportunities and growth.

A value-driven organisation, it has established itself as a partner of choice for major brands in Retail, Manufacturing, Finance, and Banking. It covers the complete digital evolution journey of its customers, from ideation and requirements setup to software development and managed services solutions.

With more than 1,200 IT professionals, Accesa also has a fast-growing footprint, establishing itself as an employer of choice for IT professionals who are passionate about problem-solving through technology. Coming together in strong tech teams with a customer-centric approach, they enable businesses to grow, delivering value for our clients, partners, industry, and community.

Job Description

Join this strategic greenfield project, developing an end-to-end payments platform for a German client, backed by a well-established European energy and mobility group. With full ownership over both the architecture and delivery, our team is responsible for defining and building a modern, scalable solution that will strengthen our position in the financial services market. As part of the core discovery team, you will help outline the technical vision and foundations that will enable a larger engineering team to scale the solution.

Responsibilities  

• Drive Impact -> Identify and understand business needs, external influencers, organizational capabilities, technology and policies.
• Streamline Requirements -> Document functional and non-functional product requirements, and define context diagrams, entity-relationship diagrams, and activity diagrams while being part of a team consisting of Developers, Testers and a Project Manager.
• Strategic Shaping -> Propose the implementation of the roadmap to the customer, identify business objectives for the roadmap, refine priorities, and guide stakeholders through prioritization challenges.  
• Leverage Expertise -> Manage the product backlog, write user stories, define milestones, ensure acceptance and take ownership.
• User Insight -> Define user personas, reference the user journey for scope modeling in a project for Retail Industry.
• Ensure Outstanding Quality -> Confirm that the requirements meet the agreed-upon business needs and embrace the latest trends in software development to deliver top-tier performance and innovation.

Qualifications

• 5+ years of experience working in a similar role. 
• Involvement in payments-related projects, with a solid understanding of the associated business and functional flows.
• Experience in applying agile methodologies: strong background in working within Agile/Scrum frameworks.
• Stakeholder management and proven client facing expertise to manage relationships with stakeholders, gather requirements, and ensure alignment on product goals.
• Good understanding of the Software Development Lifecycle (SDLC).
• Proficient in data analysis & strategic vision to interpret data and analytics to translate business goals into product strategy and actionable user stories.
• Ability to manage change and work in a dynamic environment 
• Advanced English language skills

Additional Information

At Accesa you can

Enjoy our holistic benefits program that covers the four pillars that we believe come together to support our wellbeing, covering social, physical, emotional wellbeing, as well as work-life fusion.

• Physical Wellbeing: Our wellbeing program includes medical benefits, gym support, and personalised fitness options for an active lifestyle, complemented by team events and the Healthy Habits Club.
• Work-Life Fusion: In very dynamic industries such as IT, the line between our professional and personal lives can quickly become blurred. Having a one-size-fits-one approach gives us the flexibility to define the work-life dynamic that works for us.
• Emotional Wellbeing: We believe that to maintain our overall health, we need to invest in our mental wellbeing just as much as we do in our physical health, social connections or in achieving work-life balance.
• Social Wellbeing: As a growing community in a hybrid environment, we want to ensure we remain connected not just by the great work we do every day but through our passions and interests.