Product Owner (CDI) ( Paris/Rennes/Nantes) ? F/H

We are hiring a Product Owner in Nantes, Rennes or Paris to join the Product Owner team to contribute to our company’s continuous growth. The mission is to drive the implementation of our Solution roadmap (On-premise and SaaS) and the customisation of client’s projects, to share your functional knowledge in Trading and to participate in the continuous improvement of Agile Methodology deployment. It also includes a fluid collaboration with Sales Team, Client Success Managers and Product Manager . 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 development of our solutions (from specification to implementation to client side). You will have the missions to :

1/ Define the scope • Discuss with stake holders (CSM, 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 Success Manager, Engineering team ; except for detailed technical specifications written by Epic Leaders • Participatein 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 8 years of in Financial Markets – Electronic trading • Agency Trading experience would be very appreciated • Experienced in Product Management • 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 • Fully impregnate of Agile Methodology, Scrum ceremonies … • Client-oriented, team player and willing to share your knowledge

Your technical environment?

Horizon Software focuses on all trading businesses related to trading on listed markets for principle and agency businesses. Thanks to the sophisticated algorithmic capabilities of the Horizon platform, our clients can create, test and implement automated strategies within incredibly short timescales. They trade the way they want to: “Trade your Way” is our philosophy. We make complex business simple and easy to implement, minimizing the project risk and ensuring that the targeted solution will work. Our automated trading platform can handle even the most sophisticated cross-asset and cross-product algorithmic trading strategies. Our clients can create, test and implement automated strategies within incredibly short timescales. They trade the way they really want to: ‘Trade your Way’ is our philosophy. 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 in a challenging 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, • Remote friendly and flexible : 2 days a week • Well-being & Green oriented company ( social climate survey, green initiatives, 360 assessment, no dress code…)

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• Horizon is an equal opportunity employer. We promote diversity, multiculturalism, and inclusion.

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