Technical Product Owner (Hamburg)

COMPANY (a branch from the main HQ company)
Location: Hamburg, Germany 
Field of operation: Software Engineering, (In-House) Consulting, Venture Capital
Founded: 2012
Size (employees): 12 employees
Main language spoken: German-English
Position in the market: Established
Operating markets: Optical Industry

POSITION
Type of contract: Full time Long-termed contract
Working Visa: Required
Working with: CIO, Departments Heads

MAIN TASKS:
Establish a well-designed internal API for all future and most existing internal IT products, gather requirements, develop concepts and facilitate a long-term API design strategy

RESPONSIBILITIES
System architecture, requirements development, team lead, software engineering

REQUIRED KNOWLEDGE (HARD SKILLS)
Expert: API design; RESTful APIs
Advanced: Programming skills

PREFERABLE KNOWLEDGE (HARD SKILLS)
Advanced: Data Structures, Database Systems

SOFT SKILLS
Required: Ability to gather requirements and understand business processes from a variety of departments in meetings with department heads; Able to defend concepts and able and willing to foster long-term architectural strategy