Senior Product Owner - Data Systems
We are seeking a highly skilled and experienced Senior Product Owner to join our team. As a Senior Product Owner, you will be responsible for translating future state product vision and IT strategy into prioritised team roadmaps and backlogs, ensuring valuable changes are delivered with a high level of quality.
The successful candidate will own the planning process, combining input from multiple sources to agree on a list of priorities for the teams. They will facilitate the team progress through a series of agile ceremonies and represent the teams at the scaled agile events such as scrum of scrums and quarterly planning.
Key Responsibilities:
* Planning:
o Use Agile methodology values, principles, and practices to plan, manage, and deliver solutions
o Define and own the delivery roadmap for the technical solutions
o Articulate value delivered by the team (in terms of commercial value, risk reduction, quality etc.)
o Drive roadmap planning for the team, deciding which initiatives and ideas can be prioritised for the upcoming sprints based on business priority, tech strategy, and team capacity
o Identify dependencies, blockers, and risks to delivery and manage them accordingly
o Update the roadmap based on actual delivery process through sprints, and collaborate with stakeholders when the roadmap needs to be adjusted
* Delivery:
o Define all types of requirements (functional, non-functional, transition) for technology solutions
o Manage a backlog of stories and tasks in the priority order of the roadmap, define acceptance criteria
o Ensure that requirements are discussed and understood by the team
o Facilitate key agile ceremonies; present expected solution scope, monitor progress and roadblocks, manage quality of solutions, and improve ways of working
o Plan sprints with input from the delivery teams
o Perform first-level acceptance testing before approving a piece of work for User Acceptance with the stakeholders
o Plan and facilitate the release process, manage stakeholder communications & corresponding change management
o Keep the team responsible for quality of work products
* Governance:
o Run regular retrospectives and focus on continuous improvement of both the products and the ways of working
o Identify and manage delivery risks and dependencies according to the company's processes
o Track the team's velocity and engagement metrics
o Provide relevant reporting on the status of delivery and follow the governance structure
o Plan and organise demos, facilitate collection and processing of feedback
o Contribute to the delivery practice via knowledge sharing and working on practice improvement initiatives
Requirements:
* Previous experience in a similar role, e.g. Scrum Product Owner, SAFe Product Owner, Senior Business Analyst, Delivery Lead
* Experience in a data-centric development environment working closely with data & AI engineers, data analysts, data scientists, software engineers, data governance and integration specialists, or previous experience in one or more of those roles
* Experience working in an agile environment (preferably, scaled agile - SAFe, Nexus, LeSS, or other framework)
* Previous experience working on projects involving one or more data-disciplines from: data warehousing, BI, analytics, data science, AI, application development, CRM uplift, data migration, data platform uplift, MarTech, application integration, real-time data processing and analytics, or the introduction of data governance tools
* Previous experience of programs delivering a major capability uplift would be beneficial
* Previous experience of data management on AWS including Redshift, Snowflake or Databricks, Kafka, RDS and Tableau would be beneficial
* Ideal experience working with Atlassian product suite (Jira, Confluence, Service Desk, Advanced Roadmaps)
Desired Qualifications:
* Bachelor's degree in a related field, such as computer science, engineering, or business
* Agile product ownership certification (CSPO or similar) or business analysis certification (CCBA/CBAP or similar) or project management certification (PMP or similar)
In this role, you will have the opportunity to work with a talented team of professionals who share your passion for delivering high-quality solutions. You will be part of a collaborative and dynamic environment that fosters innovation and creativity. If you are a motivated and results-driven individual who is passionate about product ownership, we encourage you to apply for this exciting opportunity.
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