Version 1 London, Birmingham, Manchester, Newcastle upon Tyne, Edinburgh, Belfast

Department: Digital, Data & Cloud

Job Description

Due to continued success and growth of one of our key clients, we are expanding the delivery team and are now looking for a Product Owner. As the Product Owner you will be responsible for managing the product backlog to achieve the desired outcome that the product development team seeks to accomplish. You will work with the senior product development team setting direction and prioritising for multiple scrum teams. You will work closely with the Scrum Master & Principal Engineers to define the backlog and assign to the scrum teams. You will also work alongside the Scrum team providing them with leadership and direction, ensuring readiness of all aspects of software releases in line with the defined SDLC process.

  • You will participate in the daily scrums, sprint planning meetings and sprint reviews and retrospectives. You will ensure the next sprint is ready to commence. You will inspect the product’s progress at the end of every sprint and have complete authority to accept or reject work done.
  • You will work with Product Management to evolve the Product Backlog through the full cycle including definition, implementation, and release.
  • You will have the ability to connect with all stakeholders, across multiple locations, to create and fully form product features. 
  • You will initiate and translate Product Road Map into manageable Product Backlog for Scrum teams.
  • Liaise with the Software Architects to understand the features and changes in product requirements and support the release planning and sprint planning exercises.
  • Work with the Scrum Master and Development Team to establish a maintainable velocity, ensure quality, eliminate defects, and motivate team.
  • Connect with the internal clients in the definition and creation of Product features.
  • Distil inputs from a variety of users and stakeholders to create a complete picture of the market problems to be solved by the proposed software. 
  • Challenge stakeholders to ensure that an understanding is achieved that is coherent, complete, credible, sufficiently concrete to facilitate the development of software, and that the principles underlying the product are identified and described. 
  • Define software capabilities to meet the understood requirements including usability, utilising artefacts that provide engineering with sufficient guidance to ensure progress. Expert knowledge of the existing capabilities of the software and planning for its future evolution must inform this. 
  • Own the acceptance of delivered software meeting capabilities as envisioned.
  • Perform root cause analysis of problems.
  • Support UAT during all phases of testing to ensure that the solutions are ready for release.
  • Communicate in a clear and concise fashion to both Development Teams and Stakeholders (including senior managers) at all stages of the development lifecycle.

Qualifications

  • Strong experience as a Product Owner / Product Manager in a related discipline with a software product vendor.
  • Skilled communication bridge between Development Teams and Stakeholders, representing business challenges and requirements clearly to engineers and relevant points of technical designs and constraints to business users.
  • Public Sector and GDS experience an advantage. 
  • Good process analysis and mapping skills, comfort with complex business domain modelling. 
  • Strong business analysis skills. The ability to provide an accurate assessment of a feature’s business value. 
  • Ability to envisage software features that solve market problems and that can be implemented at feasible levels of cost and risk. 
  • Experience of working in a truly Agile environment and expert knowledge of Agile methodologies e.g. Kanban, Scrum and SAFe.

Additional Information

At Version 1, we believe in providing our employees with a comprehensive benefits package that prioritises their well-being, professional growth, and financial stability. 

One of our standout advantages is the ability to work with a hybrid schedule along with business travel, allowing our employees to strike a balance between work and life. We also offer a range of tech-related benefits, including an innovative Tech Scheme to help keep our team members up-to-date with the latest technology. 

We prioritise the health and safety of our employees, providing private medical and life insurance coverage, as well as free eye tests and contributions towards glasses. Our team members can also stay ahead of the curve with incentivized certifications and accreditations, including AWS, Microsoft, Oracle, and Red Hat. 

Our employee-designed Profit Share scheme divides a portion of our company's profits each quarter amongst employees. We are dedicated to helping our employees reach their full potential, offering Pathways Career Development Quarterly, a programme designed to support professional growth. 

Ashley Smith - Talent Acquisition Capability Partner

[email protected] #LI-AS1 #LI-Hybrid

Company Description

Version 1 has celebrated over 28 years in Technology Services and continues to be trusted by global brands to deliver solutions that drive customer success. Version 1 has several strategic technology partners including Microsoft, AWS, Oracle, Red Hat, OutSystems and Snowflake. We’re also an award-winning employer reflecting how employees are at the heart of Version 1. 

We’ve been awarded: Innovation Partner of the Year Winner 2023 Oracle EMEA Partner Awards, Global Microsoft Modernising Applications Partner of the Year Award 2023, AWS Collaboration Partner of the Year - EMEA 2023 and Best Workplaces for Women by Great Place To Work in UK and Ireland 2023. 

As a consultancy and service provider, Version 1 is a digital-first environment and we do things differently. We’re focused on our core values; using these we’ve seen significant growth across our practices and our Digital, Data and Cloud team is preparing for the next phase of expansion. This creates new opportunities for driven and skilled individuals to join one of the fastest-growing consultancies globally. 

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