Product Owner – Extend (H/F) 

About Horizon Trading Solutions 

Horizon Trading Solutions is an independent global technology company focused on electronic trading, supporting agency and principal business goals across equities and derivatives. For over 20 years, we have equipped leading capital market participants with algorithmic trading technology and direct connectivity to more than 80 exchanges worldwide. 

We are currently looking for a Product Owner – Extend to join our Product Management team and define, structure and drive the development of Extend offer ( internal offer) capabilities within our existing multi-asset trading platform. This newly created role combines product strategy and execution: the first objective is to structure and define the Extend scope, build the roadmap and position the offer through market and competitive analysis, before leading its implementation and acting as the internal reference point on Extend topics.

Your day to day ?

Inside an Agile team you will be dedicated to, using Scrum and DevOps in an international environment ( teams located in France, Hong Kong, Montreal), you will contribute to each step of the development of our solutions (from specification to implementation on client side).

You will have the missions to :

1/ Define the scope

• Propose and build a strategic roadmap on your product scope
• Discuss with stake holders (CDM, Sales, Product Manager, Client) to understand the context of client requests / change requests / roadmap initiatives
• Clearly express Product Backlog items – writing or reviewing existing items entered by Client Support, Client Delivery Manager, Engineering team ; except for detailed technical specifications written by Epic Leaders
• Participate in the pricing of the projects / features
• Evaluate the relevance and priorities of incoming requests

2/ Manage the backlog

• Write, detail and validate items in Product backlog
• Order the items in the Product Backlog to best achieve goals and missions of the Scrum Team and give it visibility on its future tasks / projects
• Ensure that the Product Backlog is visible, transparent, and clear to all

3/ Help your Scrum Team to meet its delivery commitments

• Join Daily Stand Up meetings, Scrum ceremonies and animate/drive Backlog Estimations, Sprint Review and Sprint Planning meetings
• During the Sprint Planning, define and review the Sprint Goal with the Scrum Team
• Ensure the Development Team understands items in the Product Backlog to the level needed.
• Challenge the grooming of the team according to the original estimate, priorities and milestones of the project
• Answer functional questions from Developers and QA about Backlog items, or revert to their relevant person.
• Contribute to the functional knowledge of the Engineering Team
• Optimize the value of the work the Development Team performs

You have ?

• IT or Finance Trading education background
• A minimum of 4 years of in Financial Markets – Electronic trading
• Experience in Product Management  : 
  • Has structured or defined a product roadmap from early-stage scope definition. Experience building or expanding a product line.
  • • Owns backlog, writes specifications and manages trade-offs between business value and technical constraints.
• Balance of technical knowledge and project management skills with the ability to manage multiple tasks effectively
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills - strong synthetic mind
• Strong commitment to resolve issues and arbitrate
• Rigor (reporting, timeliness, structuring) and Organization and focus to delivery
• Fully impregnate of Agile Methodology, Scrum ceremonies …
• Client-oriented, team player and willing to share your knowledge

Your technical environment?

Horizon Trading Solutions is an independent global technology company focused on electronic trading, supporting agency and principal business goals across equities and derivatives. For over 20 years we’ve equipped the most progressive global capital market players with powerful algorithmic technology and direct connectivity to more than 80 exchanges worldwide. Our single multi-asset platform and our unfaltering commitment to client partnership allow us to promise Performance Simplified: making it easy to be the best in trading.

Our platform can handle even the most sophisticated cross-asset algorithmic trading strategies. Trading strategies are evolving day-by-day and traders constantly demand more sophistication and flexibility.

The Horizon solution can be integrated to APIs and users can easily build proprietary strategies while keeping their code confidential. We give clients unparalleled control over their algorithmic trading strategies, and the ability to modify the built-in templates.

• An application with multi-processes of several millions of lines in Java for the core of our software,
• A user interface in Swing using the libraries of JIDE Soft,
• Specific bricks in Scala through an integrated platform in our software for specific developments, other technologies as React, Kafka, Stack ELK, JMS, REST, Protobuf, … or languages as C, C++,

The benefits of the role :

• Work with top-tiers financial firms in a stimulating technical and functional environment ( algorithmic trading platforms, low latency, multi-threading, Real-time systems …)
• Integrate a team of highly-skilled and talented professionals and have the opportunity to work on a variety of subjects ( IA, Machine learning, …)
• A real human team spirit in an international environment,
• Open to remote work up to 2 days a week
• Well-being & Green oriented company ( social climate survey, green initiatives, 360 assessment, no dress code…)

Salary Range : €70,000 - €90,000 gross annual fixed salary, depending on profile and experience.