Product Owner
We are hiring a Product Owner to join the Product Management Team to contribute to our company's continuous growth.The mission is to drive the implementation of our Agency Solution roadmap (with an initial focus on Front-to-Middle and Reporting functionalities) and the customization of client’s projects, to share your functional knowledge in Trading and to participate in the continuous improvement of Agile Methodology deployment.
It also includes a fluid collaboration with Sales Team, Client Success Managers and Product Managers .
Your day to day ?
Inside an Agile team you will be dedicated to, using Scrum and DevOps in an international environment ( teams located in France, Hong Kong, Montreal), you will contribute to each step of development of our solutions (from specification to implementation to client side).
You will have the missions to :
1 / Define the scope
- Propose and build a strategic roadmap on your product scope
- Discuss with stake holders (CSM, Sales, Product Manager, Client) to understand the context of client requests / change requests / roadmap initiatives
- Clearly express Product Backlog items writing or reviewing existing items entered by Client Support, Client Success Manager, Engineering team ;
except for detailed technical specifications written by Epic Leaders
- Participate in the pricing of the projects / features
- Evaluate the relevance and priorities of incoming requests
2 / Manage the backlog
- Write, detail and validate items in Product backlog
- Order the items in the Product Backlog to best achieve goals and missions of the Scrum Team and give it visibility on its future tasks / projects
- Ensure that the Product Backlog is visible, transparent, and clear to all
3 / Help your Scrum Team to meet its delivery commitments
- Join Daily Stand Up meetings, Scrum ceremonies and animate / drive Backlog Estimations, Sprint Review and Sprint Planning meetings
- During the Sprint Planning, define and review the Sprint Goal with the Scrum Team
- Ensure the Development Team understands items in the Product Backlog to the level needed.
- Challenge the grooming of the team according to the original estimate, priorities and milestones of the project
- Answer functional questions from Developers and QA about Backlog items, or revert to their relevant person.
- Contribute to the functional knowledge of the Engineering Team
- Optimize the value of the work the Development Team performs
You have ?
- IT or Finance Trading education background
- A minimum of 4 years of in Financial Markets Electronic trading
- Agency Trading experience, especially on Sell-side OMS
- Experience on Front-to-Middle, Booking, Allocations and Reports would be very appreciated
- Experience in Product Management would be appreciated
- Balance of technical knowledge and project management skills with the ability to manage multiple tasks effectively
- Excellent written and verbal communication skills - strong synthetic mind
- Strong commitment to resolve issues and arbitrate
- Rigor (reporting, timeliness, structuring) and Organization
- Fully impregnate of Agile Methodology, Scrum ceremonies
- Client-oriented, team player and willing to share your knowledge
Your technical environment?
Horizon Trading Solutions is an independent global technology company focused on electronic trading, supporting agency and principal business goals across equities and derivatives.
For over 20 years we’ve equipped the most progressive global capital market players with powerful algorithmic technology and direct connectivity to more than 80 exchanges worldwide.
Our single multi-asset platform and our unfaltering commitment to client partnership allow us to promise Performance Simplified : making it easy to be the best in trading.
Our platform can handle even the most sophisticated cross-asset algorithmic trading strategies. Trading strategies are evolving day-by-day and traders constantly demand more sophistication and flexibility.
The Horizon solution can be integrated to APIs and users can easily build proprietary strategies while keeping their code confidential.
We give clients unparalleled control over their algorithmic trading strategies, and the ability to modify the built-in templates.
- An application with multi-processes of several millions of lines in Java for the core of our software,
- A user interface in Swing using the libraries of JIDE Soft,
- Specific bricks in Scala through an integrated platform in our software for specific developments, other technologies as React, Kafka, Stack ELK, JMS, REST, Protobuf, or languages as C, C++,
The benefits of the role :
- Work with top-tiers financial firms in a stimulating technical and functional environment ( algorithmic trading platforms, low latency, multi-threading, Real-time systems )
- Integrate a team of highly-skilled and talented professionals and have the opportunity to work on a variety of subjects ( IA, Machine learning, )
- A real human team spirit in an international environment,
- Open to remote work up to 2 days a week
- Well-being & Green oriented company ( social climate survey, green initiatives, 360 assessment, no dress code )