Job description:
Job Title: Business Analyst III (Product Owner)
About Team:
Digital Engineering is Thermo Fishers Software Engineering centre of excellence in Bengaluru. This centre of excellence provide the world-class software and cloud computing service that helps scientists do their work more efficiently and with precision, enabling them to make our world healthier, cleaner and safer.
Our world class software products and solutions accelerate scientific discovery and lab productivity.
We apply industry best practices to the design, development, and deployment of world- class software products built to leverage the power and scalability of the cloud.
Roles & Responsibilities:
The Product Owner provides business and functional expertise and acts as the voice of the customer in articulating and prioritizing desired functionality for the project teams. The product owner is responsible for the delivery of the team being truly aligned to customer intent and business value. The product owner is the sole arbiter of the team backlog, but leans on the development team to help refine, contribute and sequence work. As an indirect leader, the product owner ensures that the team work is meaningful and impactful. This person is visionary with the requisite functional knowledge to bridge the divide between business intent and execution of the team.
Responsibilities:
- Collaborates with global product management partners to co-develop a roadmap and drive products and features from concept to launch in a fast-paced environment.
- Works with cross-functional teams and various stakeholders, including design/user experience, engineering, and user enablement.
- Works in an Agile environment and continuously reviews the business needs, refines priorities, outlines milestones and deliverables, and identifies opportunities and risks.
- Partners with stakeholders and teams across the organization to inform the product vision, strategy, features, and prioritization.
- Develops, owns, and executes product roadmap. Translates product roadmap features into well-defined product requirements including features, user stories, and acceptance test criteria.
- Prioritizes and maintains the backlog for assigned products, balancing the requirements of stakeholders.
- Leads functional design process based on an intimate knowledge of the users and technology.
- Defines and executes go-to-market plan, working to ensure that product management, marketing, and leadership have what they need to be successful.
- Able to identify, document and drive the Non-Functional Requirements (NFR), DevOps and other technical needs for the products.
- Exhibits the behaviors of a Lean-Agile Mindset. Helps the team embrace SAFe Core Values, adopt and apply SAFe Principles, and implement SAFe practices.
- Actively participate in all the team meetings, including the Daily Stand-up, Iteration Planning, Iteration Review, and Iteration Retrospective.
- Works with the Release Train Engineer, Product Management, and their Scrum Master to ensure the team is prepared in advance of program level events such as PI Planning, Inspect and Adapt and system or PI demos
- Assists team in effective preparation for ART activities, including PI Planning, System Demos, and the Inspect and Adapt.
- Guides team in establishing normalized estimates and helps it understand how to estimate Features and Capabilities.
- You will build information radiators to ensure proper visibility and transparency between development teams, stakeholders and the org.You should be able to report the trends of Product Backlog for the current Program Increment and upcoming PI, actions taken and innovative in coming up with new reporting data sets which is relevant for the overall process efficiency.
- Is willing to ask difficult questions and take risks. Greets challenge and change as opportunity
- Ensures team adheres to the QMS (ISO9001:2015) & ISMS (ISO 27001) standards set in the SDLC. Lead and facilitate any new changes required to the process and support the auditing of these as per the regulatory body mandates.
- A highly motivated fast learner who can self-start and figure out what needs figuring out
- Excellent verbal and written communication skills. Ability to effectively document artifacts and processes then explain them to others
Education :
- Bachelors in Engineering or Masters in Computer Science with 6+ years of relevant experience
Mandatory Skills, Knowledge and Experience :
- Minimum 6 years of experience in software development as a developer or Business Analyst.
- Minimum 3 years as a Product Owner in an Agile environment across multiple cross-functional teams
- Minimum 1 years of working experience in SAFe framework
- Minimum 2 years of experience as a developer, tester or PO in working for projects utilizing technologies like Java, Angular, AWS, Jenkins etc.
- Experience, instincts, and enthusiasm around testing and testability and driving quality objectives
- Balance of technical knowledge and business acumen
- Experience in driving implementation and reporting of Non-Functional Requirements (NFR Security, Performance, Cost etc. )
- Proven track record of delivering data driven solutions with a customer-first mindset
- Established background in launching software or services in partnership with engineering teams and high degree of proficiency in prototyping, iterative development, understanding of Agile principles
- Experience successfully driving end-to-end delivery of data and intelligence solutions, including a wide variety of mechanisms, e.g. dashboards, APIs, real time alerts, etc.
- Experience working with geographically disperse teams
- High degree of organization, individual initiative, and personal accountability
- Strong ability to communicate and influence business and technical teams
Nice to Have Skills, Knowledge and Experience:
- Experience in working and managing Atlassian suite tool
- Have experience and knowledge of Kanban framework
- APO certifications like PSPO, CSPO
- Have experience in coaching larger teams in agile practices like Scrum, Kanban, SaFe
- Experience in managing mobile development projects
