Job Description Summary
Job Description Summary
The Staff Product Owner is an integral member of the product engineering team. This role uses domain and business process expertise to elaborate and convey detailed product requirements in the form of epics and user stories, together with supporting artifacts (such as business process maps and use cases) to the software development teams. You would be responsible for operating closely with product management to create a clear strategic direction for build needs for a product in your team's portfolio. You will work with the team and deliver a clear and descriptive set of requirements to enable the delivery of a products features and functionality. Your priority is seamless integration and alignment of perspectives from a broad set of stakeholders: Product Managers, Technical Anchors, Service Owners and Developers.
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Job Description
Essential Responsibilities:
In this role, the Staff Product Owner will ensure that technical requirements for the near-term upcoming development are sufficiently elaborated, such that the delivery team is enabled to estimate, plan and commit to delivery with high confidence. In addition, as the Sr Product Owner within the region, the role requires leadership, coaching, mentoring and overall management of the regional business analyst team, working in direct collaboration with other global BA teams for an efficient and consistent process resulting in quality deliverables from the engineering team.
- Drives process definitions and improvements for the business analyst role as well as for agile development in general.
- Captures the voice of the customer to drive business process definitions and product needs.
- Work towards managing the business analysis activities to meet engineering and product goals.
- Develop positive working relationships with external customers and users. Has ability to Balance value propositions for competing stakeholders.
- Work directly with Product Managers and / or customers to define scope and value for new developments.
- Collaborate with Engineering and Product Management to prioritize scope for releases and groom the Product backlog.
- Responsible for ensuring that non-functional requirements exist and are prioritized alongside the functions in the Product and Release Backlogs.
- Facilitate the breakdown of the Epic User Stories into "Sprint Sized" User Stories and participate in backlog reviews with the development team. Owns the backlog and ensures that 1-2 sprints/iterations of backlog are always ready.
- Ensure that the features in the User Stories / requirements are expressed in a way that all members of the team, and stakeholders, clearly understand the requirements and how they fit into the product backlog.
- Collaborate closely with product owners of other products to ensure technical requirements, scenarios, business process maps and other artifacts align with end to end feature/solution.
- Develop and be prepared to execute effective demonstrations of the product, to internal and external stakeholders.
- Maintain leading edge understanding of technologies and industry trends relevant to the application via training, webinars, on-line journals, Trade Shows and User Groups.
- Demonstrates strategic level skills in problem decomposition and ability to navigate through ambiguity.
- Engages frequently (50% of the time) with the development team; facilitates discussions, provides clarification, story acceptance and refinement, testing and validation; contributes to design activities and decisions.
Qualifications/Requirements:
Educational Qualifications
- Bachelor of Science degree in Electrical Engineering, Electronics and/or Instrumentation Engineering (Electrical Engineering or Power Systems knowledge is good to have ) or a related major, and a minimum of 9-10 years of experience.
Desired Characteristics:
- Working experience with products related to electrical utility industry. Products used in SCADA domain.
- Electrical utility industry knowledge or expertise.
- An understanding of best practice business analysis methods and tools
- Experience with Agile software development methodologies (Scrum)
- Excellent communication skills and the ability to interface with senior leadership with confidence and clarity.
- Able to energize teams through inclusiveness and connection with people, encouraging input from all members of the team.
- Able to work well with global teams, including time-zone flexibility.
- Willingness to travel both regionally and internationally.
Business Acumen:
• Demonstrates the initiative to explore alternate technology and approaches to solving problems
• Skilled in breaking down problems, documenting problem statements and estimating efforts
• Has the ability to analyze impact of technology choices
• Demonstrates knowledge of the competitive environment
Leadership:
• Pre-emptively sees downstream consequences and effectively tailors influencing strategy to support a positive outcome.
• Able to verbalize what is behind decisions and downstream implications. Continuously reflecting on success and failures to improve performance and decision-making.
• Understands when change is needed. Participates in technical strategy planning.
Personal Attributes:
• Able to effectively direct and mentor others in critical thinking skills. Proactively engages with cross-functional teams to resolve issues and design solutions using critical thinking and analysis skills and best practices. Finds important patterns in seemingly unrelated information.
• Influences and energizes other toward the common vision and goal. Maintains excitement for a process and drives to new directions of meeting the goal even when odds and setbacks render one path impassable.
• Innovates and integrates new processes and/or technology to significantly add value to GE. Identifies how the cost of change weighs against the benefits and advises accordingly. Proactively learns new solutions and processes to address seemingly unanswerable problems.
- Results driven person with strong interpersonal skills.
Additional Information
Relocation Assistance Provided: Yes