Senior Business Analyst/Product Owner

Avenga is looking for a skilled Senior Business Analyst/Product Owner to join our team full-time. Our client is a leading multi-national lottery operator with a market-leading presence in Austria, the Czech Republic, Greece, Cyprus, and Italy. They build better lotteries that return more to good causes by focusing on innovation, technology,efficiency, and safety across a growing casual gaming entertainment portfolio. The client’s purpose is to make play better for all and their mission is to be a trusted and proactive guardian of all that is good in lotteries and casual gaming entertainment.

As a Senior Business analyst/ Product owner will drive strategic business initiatives by analyzing complex business processes, eliciting requirements, and translating them into actionable solutions. You will work closely with cross-functional teams to facilitate change, optimize processes, and ensure our business solutions meet both operational and strategic goals.

What do you bring along:

• 5+ years of experience on BA/Product related positions
• Proficient user of BPM
• Solid understanding of the overall system architectural design and system dependencies (between different services/modules)
• Ability to differentiate between front-end and back-end functionalities
• Clear understanding of system integration through APIs — be able to draft a sequence diagram that outlines the process end-to-end and perform data mapping.
• Experience in working on multiple and varied large-scale projects, delivering a variety of software applications
• Successful practical experience in establishing and complying to the change management process
• Experience in the Betting or similar Industry
• English ­- Upper-Intermediate or higher

Nice-to-have skills:

• Experience in web and mobile applications
• A degree in a CS or Computer Engineering discipline or equivalent

This is your mission:

• Work with the stakeholders and product managers to analyze data and align product roadmap to strategic goals
• Act as an ambassador for the product internally and externally, and as the primary technical contact for queries related to the product
• Possess a fundamental understanding of end-to-end customer experience integration and dependencies
• Work closely with key roles such as Tech Leads and Delivery Managers to ensure requirements clarity and technical excellence
• Develop scope documents and define Epics/User Stories that guide our CLS Software Development teams
• Assess value, develop cases, and prioritize stories, epics, and themes to ensure work focuses on those with maximum value that are aligned with product strategy.
• Define priorities for short-term delivery within sprints and also for longer-term delivery along with Product Managers and stakeholders
• Ensure that dependencies, risks, and stakeholders’ expectations are identified and managed.
• Develop appropriately detailed specifications for product features so that they are clearly understood by the development team
• Develop and maintain an appropriately prioritized backlog of user stories for implementation
• Ensure effective coordination, establish feedback loops, and enable overall orchestration among various teams, stakeholders, and customers
• Run refinement sessions with the development teams in order to articulate delivery goals, provide details, and refine stories
• Run iteration reviews or demo sessions with the help of QA engineers in order to present the iteration deliverables to stakeholders and receive feedback