Senior Product Owner - Trading and Market Data

About the role

Iress, one of Australia's largest technology companies, is hiring a Senior Product Owner in South Africa to cover Trading and Market Data. You will turn client, market and commercial needs into clear product priorities and deliverable outcomes, own and prioritise product backlogs, clarify requirements and make timely decisions so product and engineering teams can deliver effectively.

Key responsibilities

• Own and prioritise product backlogs across Trading and Market Data, aligned with client, product and commercial outcomes.
• Translate product strategy and client needs into epics, features, requirements and acceptance criteria.
• Make timely product decisions balancing client value, commercial impact, risk, technical feasibility, dependencies and delivery capacity.
• Lead structured discovery with clients and internal stakeholders to validate problems, workflows and solutions.
• Collaborate with product, engineering, operations and delivery teams to set priorities, manage dependencies and deliver outcomes.
• Define release goals and success measures, and coordinate release readiness including documentation, knowledge transfer and stakeholder communication.
• Monitor delivery progress, adoption, client feedback and benefits realised to refine priorities.
• Contribute client, market and commercial insight to strategies, roadmaps, propositions and investment decisions.
• Identify opportunities to simplify product processes and reduce dependency on individual specialists.

Required profile

• At least five years' experience in product ownership, product management, business analysis or a related technology role.
• Experience owning and prioritising a backlog for a complex technology product, platform, workflow or data service.
• Knowledge of capital markets, trading, post-trade, investment workflows, Market Data or a closely related financial-services domain.
• Experience in a complex environment with multiple teams, stakeholders and competing priorities.
• Preferred: buy-side, front-office trading, post-trade or Deal Management experience; experience modernising complex workflow or Market Data products; experience across regional and global product and technology teams; experience in a software, fintech, financial-information or regulated financial-services business.
• A relevant tertiary qualification or equivalent practical experience is preferred; product ownership, product management, business analysis or agile delivery certification is beneficial but not essential.

Required skills

• Product backlog ownership and prioritisation
• Client discovery and requirements definition
• Product planning and roadmap contribution
• Commercial analysis and value assessment
• Release planning and delivery coordination
• Product performance and outcome measurement
• Practical experience with product-backlog, delivery and documentation tools

What we offer

• Flexible ways of working and long weekends
• Generous parental leave
• Opportunities to take part in local community initiatives
• A connected team culture