Senior Business Analyst & Product Owner

This is us

At Avenga, we believe that human creativity empowers technology that matters. Operating globally, our 6000+ specialists provide a full spectrum of services, including business and tech advisory, enterprise solutions, CX, UX and Ul design, managed services, product development, and software development.

This is the job

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.

This is you

• 5+ years of experience on BA/Product related positions
• 2 years of working on software development projects in an agile requirements analysis role
• Competent in Jira / Confluence
• Proficient user of BPM
• Experience in the Betting Industry
• Experience in working on multiple and varied large-scale projects, delivering a variety of software applications
• Talented at interacting with multiple stakeholders including C level
• Experience in working on multiple and varied large-scale projects, delivering a variety of software applications
• Solid knowledge in software architectures and processes related to software delivery
• Successful practical experience in establishing and complying to the change management process
• Proven ability to work within teams using a variety of software development methods, including product development using agile software delivery methods
• Confident in designing solutions/ business processes/ operating models

This is your role

• 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
• 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. Additionally, capture user story estimations from the team during such sessions
• Run iteration reviews or demo sessions with the help of QA engineers in order to present the iteration deliverables to stakeholders and receive feedback