Product Owner

THE WOW We are looking for someone who seems themselves as part of every team of Betsson Group. You will make yourself available to the whole area and support all teams when architectural guidance is needed. We are looking for someone who has great interpersonal skills and who is a true problem solver! You will work very closely with our Software Engineers and Product Managers – ensuring we are prioritising the correct items for both short- and long-term initiatives. Aside from embodying the ‘One Betsson’ value, you will also work very closely with most if not all Area Architects and Team Leads.   WHAT'S IN IT FOR YOU? * Ensuring all initiatives are aligned with the overall technical vision * Supporting Team Leads, Development Teams and Product Managers on technical route(s) to take * Supporting the Product Manager to ensure we have the right priorities in the backlog and roadmap for each initiative * Part of the decision making with key stakeholders * Participate in workshops/exercises/brainstorming/presentations/knowledge-transfer sessions with the rest of the architecture team and other parties * Participate in pre-solution work for new initiatives to outline high level solutions * Participate in design reviews to ensure all solutions adhere to established guidelines * Identification of refactoring activities needed to address technical debt, performance, scalability, availability, reliability, and security * Support development teams and product owners make sure we have relevant NFR’s defined (KPI’s) * Cooperating with Enterprise Architects to align area solutions to correspond to the company’s guidelines around integration patterns, data storage, orchestration, messaging, and other concerns * Supporting the development teams when dealing with architectural decisions, designs and high incidents * Benchmark systems, analyse system bottlenecks and propose solutions to eliminate them * Mentor, guide, and be a technology leader to other more junior team members   YOU’RE GOOD AT * Have a good understanding of new technology and how new technology can be exploited to improve our solutions and drive innovation * Good communicator and collaborator. * Experience with microservices and associated tools, such as Kafka, RabbitMQ, Docker and Kubernetes * Previous experience in building RESTful services and familiar with best practices * Demonstrated expertise in building applications at scale is a requirement. Strong knowledge of datastores (SQL, NoSQL), and ability to make choices among available technology based on requirements * Experience with Architectural patterns for High availability, Performance, scale out architecture, Disaster Recovery, Security Architecture Knowledge of cloud-based architectures, deployment and operational aspects of Amazon Web Services cloud is a plus * A technical mindset with great attention to detail * Take a product mindset in the design of features, thinking ahead of how your decisions will impact how the features evolve   WHAT WE OFFER Much like riding a rollercoaster, sometimes life at Betsson can be lightning fast with twists and turns but always FUN! Then again, what else would you expect from a business 75% millennial and 1700 strong, spread across 7 offices with 900 based out of our Malta HQ alone! We recognise it may not be for the faint-hearted, but if you’re a go-getter, initiator and adrenaline junkie, always striving to push the boundaries and challenge yourself, then you’ll fit right in.   CHALLENGE ACCEPTED?  By submitting your application, you understand that your personal data will be processed as set out in our Privacy Policy

At Betsson Group, the Player Rewards and Gamification Area ensures our customers come back for more!  THE WOW It’s all about loyalty. We provide a world class customer experience beyond the game play featuring exciting features like tournament, dynamic personalised campaigns and much more! We also work closely with our Commercial, Compliance and Data teams to build the next generation back-office tools to support their processes. As our Senior Product Manager, you will be a part of a cross functional development team where you will have the primary responsibility for defining, organising and prioritising requirements. You will work closely with business stakeholders within the organisation, as well as developers, architects and UX designers to continuously optimise the customer experience. Together with your team you will take ownership of a number of customer journeys and/or capabilities where you will be one of the key people expected to drive and lead the delivery of new functionality as well as improvements of existing functionality. This will often require you to collaborate with other development teams and engage with a number of stakeholders to ensure a successful roll out. We operate in a fast paced and challenging industry, and you will have several opportunities to work on complex and cutting edge products and contribute to Betsson Group’s success.   A TASTER OF WHAT YOU WILL BE INVOLVED WITH:  * Proactively get input from relevant Business Units on operational needs and problems that need to be solved * Align requirements, scope, and plan with company-wide initiatives * Conduct competitors’ analysis * Lead User Research, experimentation, A/B testing, UAT initiatives * Own Product Roadmap and prioritization * Set and track Product KPIs and Success Metrics for product deliveries * Communicate iteratively on Roadmap changes and deliveries * Working with UX and UI designers (and other stakeholders as necessary) to define the customer experience and product specifications * Defining user stories with acceptance criteria together with the development team * Defining tracking, reporting, and non-functional requirements for user stories * Working with the team to refine, plan and prioritise user stories according to business value, always taking technical debt and the long term success of the product into account * Collaborating with stakeholders and ensuring that they are kept up to date and aligned with the current progress and prioritization * Helping the rest of the development team and Product Management peers to ensure that acceptance criteria are met * Occasional travelling be required to our various offices   WHAT WE ARE LOOKING FOR * Prior software engineering experience or education. * Collaboration and dialogue. You will be collaborating both with members of your development team, stakeholders outside the team as well as third party providers and partners * Agile. Not just processes but a true agile mind-set where all members of the cross functional development team are involved and where changing requirements based on business needs and market opportunities are embraced * Facilitating and creating workshops materials * Prioritizing and taking educated decisions * Collaborating with development teams * Problem solving and tough conversations. We work in a high paced industry and having more requirements and expectations than capacity is the norm. You will play a key role in managing expectations and ensuring a sustainable pace in your team. * You are technical enough to manage software product – backend, back-office, and player-facing features for the enterprise platform * Understanding of APIs, SQL, event-based services and various API exploration tools, like Postman, Swagger, LINQ Pad or similar is a must due to most of functionality is in the backend and API, with limited exposure to UI * Transactional business rules and algorithmic thinking * Defining observability, logging requirements, coming up with metrics, alerts ad defining deviations from normal performance of the system. * Good understanding and ability to define non-functional requirements is a must * Analysing legal and regulatory requirements * Product Discovery, Product Planning, and delivery tools (like Jira, Confluence, Miro or similar) * Thorough documentation of decisions, requirements, analysis and dependencies * Creating audience-specific presentations and workshop materials * Gaming, Payments, Revenue Recognition and Accounting, Taxation, CRM, SAAS experience is a big plus   WHAT WE OFFER Much like riding a rollercoaster, sometimes life at Betsson can be lightning fast with twists and turns but always FUN! Then again, what else would you expect from a business 75% millennial and 1700 strong, spread across 7 offices with 900 based out of our Malta HQ alone! We recognise it may not be for the faint-hearted, but if you’re a go-getter, initiator and adrenaline junkie, always striving to push the boundaries and challenge yourself, then you’ll fit right in.   CHALLENGE ACCEPTED? By submitting your application, you understand that your personal data will be processed as set out in our Privacy Policy