Bilingual Software Product Owner (100% remote)
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About the Role
TELUS Health seeks a Bilingual Software Product Owner to join the WebTools team, driving product delivery for retirement solutions and benefits. You will manage and prioritize the team's backlog, set sprint objectives, and ensure alignment with business goals.
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Responsibilities
- Manage a complex backlog for a large team and ensure alignment with product strategy, technical roadmap, and business objectives
- Translate business needs, customer feedback, and product priorities into clear user stories, acceptance criteria, and backlog items
- Define sprint objectives and support the team in progressive delivery during each iteration
- Actively participate in SAFe/Agile ceremonies — cycle and iteration planning, backlog refinement, demos, and inspect/adapt activities
- Collaborate closely in tandem with another SPO — share the vision, decisions, and responsibility
- Facilitate cross functional collaboration — coordinate business analysts, developers, and QA testers
- Ensure backlog clarity and readiness — items well understood, properly sized, sequenced, and ready for delivery
- Make informed decisions and provide clear priorities to the development team
- Navigate technical debt while innovating — balance refactoring needs with new feature requests
- Validate and deliver quality — verify that work meets acceptance criteria and customer expectations
Requirements
- Fluency in French and English, oral and written
- 3+ years of experience as a software product owner, Scrum Master, or similar Agile role
- Demonstrated experience managing large backlogs (50+ items) or multi team Agile leadership
- Experience managing and prioritizing a team backlog (Jira, Azure DevOps, or equivalent)
- Experience participating in PI planning or similar cross team planning activities
- Good understanding of Agile delivery practices and software development lifecycle
- Ability to translate customer needs into clear user stories and acceptance criteria
- Ability to balance business value, technical feasibility, risk, and delivery capacity
- Interest or experience in actuarial science, pension plans, insurance, or financial services
Full Job Posting
About the Role
- Join the WebTools team as a software product owner and contribute to a major strategic project on the retirement solutions and benefits side at TELUS Health.
- You will be responsible for driving product delivery by managing and prioritizing the team's backlog, setting sprint and increment objectives, and ensuring alignment with business objectives, technical direction, and customer needs.
- You will work in tandem with another SPO.
What You'll Do
- Manage a complex backlog for a large team and ensure alignment with product strategy, technical roadmap, and business objectives.
- Translate business needs, customer feedback, and product priorities into clear user stories, acceptance criteria, and backlog items.
- Define sprint objectives and support the team in progressive delivery during each iteration.
- Actively participate in SAFe/Agile ceremonies.
- Collaborate closely in tandem with another SPO.
- Facilitate cross functional collaboration.
- Ensure backlog clarity and readiness.
- Make informed decisions and provide clear priorities to the development team.
- Navigate technical debt while innovating.
- Validate and deliver quality.
- Prepare the team's future.
- Identify and resolve risks, dependencies, and blockers.
What you bring
- Fluency in French and English, oral and written.
- 3+ years of experience as a software product owner, Scrum Master, or similar Agile role.
- Demonstrated experience managing large backlogs (50+ items) or multi team Agile leadership.
- Experience managing and prioritizing a team backlog (Jira, Azure DevOps, or equivalent).
- Experience participating in PI planning or similar cross team planning activities.
- Interest or experience in actuarial science, pension plans, insurance, or financial services.
- Good understanding of Agile delivery practices.
- Good understanding of the software development lifecycle.
- Ability to translate customer needs into clear user stories and acceptance criteria.
- Ability to balance business value, technical feasibility, risk, and delivery capacity.
- Ability to clearly connect business objectives to backlog priorities.
Assets
- Experience working with SAFe or large scale Agile methodology.
- In depth knowledge of Agile tools such as Azure DevOps.
- Experience delivering complex software products or digital solutions.
- Prior experience with legacy systems or actuarial architectures.
- Experience with growing or restructuring teams.
- Familiarity with technical debt management.
- Experience with modern stacks (Angular, JavaScript, or equivalent).
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