Product Owner - Cloud

SUMMARY:
Product Owner - Cloud

POSITION INFO:

A Client a Global Tech firm is seeking a High skilled and passionate Product Owner within the cloud space. The offer stability, growth, attractive salary and great benefits. They are seeking qualified Product with cloud experience in Azure, AWS etc, someone who comes from an Agile Environment (Agile Product Owner, SAFe, etc). The candidate can be based anywhere in South African. DevOps Exposure is also high advantages

Description

The Product Owner is a member of the Agile Team and is responsible for defining stories and prioritising the team backlog in order to simplify the execution of the program priorities. Within the organization, they are also responsible for the conceptual and technical integrity of the features aswell as the systems and process operational integrity.

The Product Owner role spans the lifecycle of a Product, from Minimum Viable Product (MVP), through to the retiring of a product. They work closely with Product Management, Service Delivery, Service Architecture and Platform Delivery in order to deliver on their mandate.

The Product Owner maintains a key responsibility towards Quality Control and is the only team member empowered to accept stories completed.

They operate as the content authority at a Team level and work towards optimising the return on investment (ROI) by ensuring the Scrum Team members are engaged in delivering the most valuable product features.

The Product Owner within organizations application of the role will also be responsible for the operational aspects of a Product lifecycle, through to Retirement of the product. They will work closely with the Operational teams and GTM Product Managers to ensure the continual optimization of the product to improve operations and product profitability.

Responsibilities

• Provide vision and direction to the Agile development team and stakeholders 
• Ensure that the team always has an adequate amount of prior prepared tasks to work on 
• Plan and prioritize product feature backlog and development for the offer/product 
• Fully understand the product vision, roadmap and growth opportunities to enable onward articulation into the development team 
• Drive pilot clients through the transition process
• Assist the transition team with any gaps in enabling new capabilities and features
• Assess value, prioritise backlog items based on this value, time, and other team dependencies determined in the PI planning meeting and refined during the PI, to ensure focus on those with maximum value that are aligned with the offer/product strategy 
• Provide backlog management, iteration planning, and elaboration of the user stories 
• Work closely with Product Management to create and maintain a product backlog according to business value or ROI 
• Lead the planning product release plans and set expectation for delivery of new functionality/capability 
• Provide an active role in mitigating impediments impacting successful team completion of release and iteration goals 
• Establish story acceptance criteria, accepts stories into the baseline
• Ongoing operational ownership of the Product post MVP completion
• Capture and maintain Service Delivery capabilities
• Establish a continual engagement with the GTM and Operational teams
• Build out dashboards and product optimization strategies

Qualifications 

• SAFe Product Owner / Product Manager
• Certification 
• Implementing & Leading SAFe
• Technical qualification/ certification or
• experience related to Product 

Knowledge and skills

• Applicable knowledge of the technologies and portfolio of offers used by the team 
• Deep knowledge and understanding of the systems and processes that a product is enabled through
• Demonstrable knowledge of product development in an ICT industry 
• Strong knowledge of SAFe’s practices and its application/operation 
• Strong communication aptitude, with an innate ability to say “no” in a way that will not discourage or upset the business 
• Effective conflict resolver 
• Effective escalator 
• Team empowerer – through strong collaboration and knowledge brokering 
• Understand fundamentals of iterative development 
• Understand fundamentals of product/ software development processes and procedures 
• Understand the value of commitments to delivery made by a development team 
• Understand incremental delivery and the value of metrics 
• Understand backlog tracking, burndown metrics, velocity, and task definition 
• Be able to relate to, and integrate with alternate development methodologies (e.g. waterfall 
• Be conversant in DevOps practises and understand strong relationship and bi-directional dependency required with deployment teams

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