Senior Requirements Engineer & Product Owner

Project overview

For a long-term project in a complex IT landscape, an experienced Senior Requirements Engineer & Product Owner is sought. The focus is on the support and further development of business-critical legacy applications and their conceptual replacement.

Quick Facts

• Industry: Logistics & digital services
• Start: As soon as possible
• Duration: Approximately 2–4 years
• Workload: 3 days per week
• Location: Vienna (50 %) & remote (50 %)
• Language: German & English (C1 each)

Responsibilities

What you bring with you:

Framework conditions:

• Responsibility for the entire lifecycle of existing legacy applications – from requirements analysis, conception, specification, implementation, and testing to production support, including incident analysis and troubleshooting.
• Analysis of business and technical requirements together with business departments, IT and solution architects, and external service providers.
• Planning and moderation of workshops for requirements gathering and documentation in Azure DevOps and LeanIX.
• Structuring requirements into Epics, Features, and User Stories with acceptance criteria, system impact analyses, and sprint-ready granularity.
• Creation and maintenance of RE artifacts (e.g., glossaries, business object models, UML diagrams, solution designs, UI mock-ups).
• Prioritization of the development backlog according to MoSCoW, definition of MVP/MMP, and ongoing clarification of business questions with the development teams.
• Participation in Scrum meetings (Refinements, Plannings, Reviews) and communication of requirements to the teams.
• Conceptual support of modernization and migration projects with dependencies on existing applications.
• More than 15 years of professional experience in requirements engineering, business process, and system analysis.
• Sound knowledge of requirements analysis, methods, and documentation standards.
• Extensive experience in independently conducting workshops (Story Mapping, Design Thinking).
• Very good knowledge of Azure DevOps and agile frameworks such as Scrum.
• Experience with complex IT landscapes (>10 systems) and reverse engineering of legacy systems (code analysis, derivation of specifications).
• Experience in the logistics sector and with digital services (including payment solutions).
• Experience in managing internationally distributed software development teams.
• German and English at C1 level, both written and spoken.
• IREB certification is an advantage.
• Scrum Product Owner or SAFe Product Owner certification is an advantage.
• High customer and solution orientation, quality awareness, teamwork, and hands-on mentality.
• Mandatory team days and selected presentation appointments on-site in Vienna.
• Flexible working hours and interest in technological innovations.

Project details

• Start: 2026-10
• Duration: 48 Monate
• Remote: hybrid
• Location: Wien, Österreich, AT
• Languages: German