Senior Server Administrator

Key Responsibilities

• Product Vision & Roadmap Collaboration: Collaborate with the Product Owner and product leadership to define and articulate the product vision, strategy, and roadmap for the Sports and News mobile applications, ensuring alignment with company goals and technical feasibility.
• Backlog Management & Prioritization (Backend Focus): In partnership with the Product Owner, manage, maintain, and prioritize the product backlog for the mobile apps, with a specific focus on backend services, APIs, and their integration with the mobile front-end. Ensure the backlog is transparent, well-understood, and reflects the highest value opportunities.
• Story Refinement & Readiness (Backend & API Emphasis): Lead and facilitate rigorous backlog refinement sessions, particularly for backend-focused user stories, with the Scrum development team (engineers, QA, designers). This includes:
• Breaking down epics and larger features related to backend systems and APIs into granular, well-defined user stories.
• Clearly articulating functional requirements, technical specifications, and user needs for backend services.
• Defining precise, testable acceptance criteria for API endpoints and backend logic.
• Ensuring all backend stories meet the team's agreed-upon "Definition of Ready" (DoR) before sprint planning, minimizing ambiguity and enabling efficient development.
• Technical Liaison & API Definition: Act as the primary technical point of contact for the mobile development team and backend engineering teams, translating business requirements into actionable technical tasks for APIs and services, and providing necessary context. Contribute to the design and definition of new APIs and backend services, ensuring they are scalable, reliable, and meet the functional and non-functional requirements of the mobile applications.
• Stakeholder Collaboration: Engage with various stakeholders, including the Product Owner, business units, editorial teams, marketing, and UX/UI designers, to gather requirements, solicit feedback, and ensure alignment. Act as a key liaison between the Product Owner and the engineering teams for backend initiatives.
• Agile Process Facilitation: Actively participate in all Scrum ceremonies (Sprint Planning, Daily Stand-ups, Sprint Reviews, Retrospectives), providing ongoing clarification and support to the team, especially regarding backend and API implementations.