Product Owner

**Job Title**
- : Product Owner

**Core scope of work**
- : Digitalizing bank processes through a front end to serve bank business teams

**Position type**
- : Full time

**Place of work**
- : Bangkok, Sathorn district

**Salary**
- : Negotiable

**Working conditions**
- : Working conditions are normal for an office environment

**Department/Function**
- : Core Banking - Internal Distribution Department

**Reporting to Title**
- : Head of Department

**The company and the mission**:
BRED IT (Thailand) Ltd.is a wholly owned subsidiary of the French bank BRED Banque Populaire based out of Paris (BPCE Group).

BRED IT was established in 2008 with the objective to become the IT hub for BRED Group Commercial Banks in South East Asia, Pacific Ocean, and the Horn of Africa areas.

Today, with more than 250 employees, BRED IT fully supports Banque Franco Lao in Laos, BRED Bank Cambodia, BRED Bank Vanuatu, BRED Bank Solomon Islands, BRED Bank Fiji and Banque pour le commerce et l’industrie Mer Rouge (BCIMR) in Djibouti. BRED IT hosts and manages all layers of BRED International Banks Information Systems: From Infrastructures to Applications (Core Banking, Front end for bank business team, Internet/Mobile Banking, E-Payments ), on a 24x7 basis.

We are a unique company, thanks to our identity and our history: We place our expertise at the service of BRED Group and develop our activities with an entrepreneurial structure.

By putting BRED group best interests first, it allows us to deliver tailor-made solutions with high value-added.

**Mission**:
The product owner will lead applicative projects for international banks. He will manage a team composed of business analysts and of developers (7 in total), he will coordinate with business experts and business project managers from the bank, and he will coordinate with technical experts such as IT architects and infrastructure engineers, with a global goal to deliver applicative features and enhancements on his products.

We are looking for a product owner with both functional and technical background, ideally in banking industry. Project management skills are a must. Specific knowledge on digitalization of processes related to customer relationship, core banking, customer data, bank products is ideal.

Product owner must be able to lead a digital project implementation end-to-end: gather requirements from business experts, write specifications with business teams, lead implementation by internal developer team, assist the design of test cases for SIT (System Integration Tests) and UAT (User Acceptance Tests) with a QA Lead, train/guide business team in conduction of UAT, coordinate deployments with IT and business team.

Within this role, it is necessary to be a manager, to help the team grow, to have a strong analytical mind, to be a coordinator and a communicator.

**Responsibilities**
- Participate and/or lead workshops with business experts to design the target solution.
- Analyze business requirements from the banks and design functional specifications with business analysts.
- Coordinate with IT experts, dev lead, IT architects to design technical specifications.
- Participate in, often coordinate, the implementation and testing activities.
- Follow-up, animate, and coordinate a developer team on implementation and SIT testing activities.
- Ensure good level technical (git, db schema) and functional documentation (user guides, train the trainer) with the dev lead and business analysts.
- Lead project implementation (build activity) and operational support (run activity).
- Coordinate project management and related governance along with the head of department (propose a vision, project meeting and steering committees, reporting to PMO and IT governance department, and reporting to Top Management).

**Experience and Skills**
- 5 to 10 years’ experience working within IT domains is recommended.
- Knowledge of standard IT processes (build, support, testing, change, etc.).
- Ideally comfortable in an international context with exposure to several geographical and cultural regions, or with motivation to be working in an international context.
- Knowledge in core banking, retail banking and/or corporate banking activities.
- Knowledge in functional workflows. Ideally related to bank customer relationship or bank internal processes.
- Basic knowledge in SQL, comfortable with database structure & schema.
- Functional knowledge of Flexcube Core Banking (Oracle) is a plus.
- Experience on managing and coordinating business analyst, QA, development team (back and front) for build and run/support activities.
- Must possess excellent communication skills in English (both written and oral) to be able to work with international customers (France, India, Laos, Cambodia, Fiji, Vanuatu...).
- French is a plus.

**Education**
- Bachelors or Masters / University degree in related field or equivalent work experience required.
- English fluent.

**What we offer**:
- Attractive compensatio