Currently, we are looking to add an experienced "Product Owner Data Backbone" to join our company on a freelance and fully remote basis. The role will ensure a fit for purpose data backbone self-service capability is provided to all DevOps team within the trading division. The data backbone is at the core of our future IT landscape and shall offer two main capabilities:
A streaming capability that enables real-time data ingestion and consumption
A self-service that allows users to ingest, store and receive flexible data objects.
Role Engagement: The role requires the successful candidate to work at 100% capacity (40 hours per week).
Duration: The duration of this project is until the end of 2021, with high probability of extension into 2022.
Location: Candidate should be physically located in Europe, and be willing to travel to Karlsruhe, Germany on client demand, depending on project.
Tasks and responsibilities
Develop and maintain a self-service product that allows DevOps teams to easily use the standard streaming and storage technology
Provide an enabling service to DevOps team - development guidelines, Quality Assurance capabilities and/or Go-Live service
Maintain an overview of the producers and consumers of data backbone
Backlog prioritization and sprint planning
Stakeholder management
Team coordination
Support the future operating team with the definition of service level agreement of the data platform
Competencies and Experience
Proven experience in Data Lake Knowledge, Cloud Database Technologies (AWS is preferred), Programming (eg. Python), Data Warehousing (Snowflake experience is a bonus)
Good knowledge in Data Analysis, Process Mining (eg. Celonis), Machine Learning and Data Science platforms (eg. Palantir Foundry)
Experience with Agile software development
Experience with software and product development tools such as JIRA (Azura DevOps is preferred)
Deep knowledge of software development lifecycle
Experience with Energy Trading Solutions and IT landscape is a bonus
Fluent in English