Product Owner - Rabat

Company :

ALTEN MOROCCO, a branch of the world leader in engineering and technology consulting founded in 2008 and present in Fes, Rabat, Tetouan, and Casablanca, now has over 2200 employees and aims for a center of excellence of 3300 ALTEN employees by the end of 2027. It is now a strategic player in supporting the professional development of engineers.

Our mission: to meet the technological ambitions of our clients - major international contractors - in the automotive, rail, R&D and IT, telecommunications, and media sectors.

Joining ALTEN Morocco means joining an ecosystem of excellence and benefiting from:

• A personalized and evolving career path

• An ambitious skills development policy

• A stimulating, collaborative, and meaningful work environment

Discover the testimonial of Hajar Bououd, HR Director and Communication at ALTEN Morocco in the Challenge Maroc magazine by clicking here: https://bit.ly/3QMntIc

Company culture :

Alten Maroc is defined by a deeply collaborative culture, focused on people, trust, and strong team support, with hands-on managers who guide and develop talent.
This environment is enhanced by a strong drive for innovation, encouraging creativity, initiative, and experimentation across projects.
A structured and disciplined organization ensures efficiency, rigor, and quality in engineering delivery.
Performance and ambition are part of the culture as well, supporting collective success while maintaining a positive and caring atmosphere.

Job :

Context

Within the Development (DEV) team of the ACQP (Continuous Improvement and Project Quality) department of the ALTEN Group's Technical Directorate (DDPS), the Product Owner works closely with technical departments, ODCs (Morocco, Romania...), and support functions, acting as the interface with development teams.

Objective

Contribute to the technical qualification and costing of new projects, understand business needs, and be proactive in translating solutions, then lead communication and deployment of developed solutions with tech leads.

1 - Needs Characterization

• Frame needs and, if necessary, lead clarification workshops with requesters.
• Contribute to technical qualification with developers.
• Contribute to the costing of new projects.
• Identify needs for service accounts, application accounts, and necessary access.

2 - Writing Specifications and Functional Specifications

• Lead the writing of specifications and functional specifications with requesters.
• Create Epics from specifications.

3 - Planning and Supervision of Development Phases

• Coordinate all involved stakeholders.
• Create JIRA tickets with developers.
• Lead agile routines: backlog reviews, costing meetings, retrospectives, demos.
• Monitor development progress.
• Prepare testing specifications with requesters.

4 - Supporting Requesters in Testing and Acceptance Phases

5 - Coordination of Production Deployment

6 - Leading Communication and Deployment

• Ensure the creation of a descriptive slide for each development.
• Ensure the update of the development catalog.
• Travel abroad is expected (especially to ODCs in Morocco, Romania...).

Required profile :

Education and Language

• Master's degree (Bac+5): Engineering degree or Master 2.
• 3 to 8 years of experience.
• Fluent English (communication with international ODCs).

Key Skills

• Project management (planning, multi-stakeholder coordination, progress monitoring).
• Analysis and synthesis (gathering and formalizing needs, writing specifications/functional specifications).
• Knowledge of the addressed businesses (technical departments, support functions).
• Knowledge of technical environments, ability to communicate with developers.

Tools and Methods

• Agile methods (Scrum): backlog, costing, retrospectives, demos.
• JIRA (Epics, tickets, sprint monitoring).
• Test and production deployment management.

Soft Skills

Proactive, service-oriented, comfortable leading workshops and meetings.

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Desired personality traits :

Need for objectivity Tenacity Organization Rationalism Respect of the rules