Senior Epic Owner

04/08/2025

Our client is looking for a Senior Epic Owner

Context

You will be one of the Epic owners within the Program for implementation of Profim.
Responsible for the roll-out of the Jira standardization the coming months.
More details provided during the interview.

Description

As a senior Epic Owner, you have over 5 years of experience in guiding the epic under the Agile methodology :

  • You guide the epic through the portfolio kanban;
  • You are effective by collaborating with other roles, Agile Release Trains and teams;

During Preparation of the Epic

  • You work with stakeholders and subject matter experts to define the epic;
  • You work with development teams to size the epic and provide input for prioritization;
  • You create the Lean business case and other relevant factors.

During Implementation of the Epic

  • You define a roadmap: who, when, dependencies, deadlines, milestones…;
  • You ask commitment from Agile Release Trains involved;
  • You work collaboratively with Product Managers & System Architects from Agile Release Trains to split the epic into features;
  • You help prioritize these backlog items in their respective ART backlogs;
  • You participate in the Program Increment (PI) Planning and System Demo;
  • You evaluate the delivered features against the Minimum Viable Product (MVP) and epic business case at the end of every PI;
  • You decide or ask decision on the continuation of the implementation of the epic at the end of every PI;
  • You understand and report on the progress of the epic’s Minimum Viable Product (MVP) with key stakeholders and Lean Portfolio Management (LPM) through KPI's and leading indicators.

Skills

You have the following core competences : Collaborating, Critical thinking, Decision making, Priority management.

Job specifications

ID: 10757

Duration: 01/10/2025 - 31/12/2026

Location: TBD

Type: Freelance

Michaël Govaerts

Recruitment Manager
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