Product Owner – Data and Digital, Water, Utilities, SMART Metering - Hybrid with travel to Bradford (1-2 days a week), Outside IR35, £520 - £600 per day, 6 months + extension.
Purpose of the role
The Product Owner will work across the different delivery teams, primarily focused on the Data Squad, but you will need to be prepared to work across other technologies.
The programme has multiple workstreams each delivering capabilities' to the business. The Product Owner will need to be responsible for 2 or 3 different workstreams to ensure the Business requirements are delivered to specification and meet the users needs. Product Owners will ensure the product strategy and vision, continually guide the product development squads. You will manage and prioritise the backlog; Oversee scrum development stages and participates in refinement, planning, and review; Making tough decisions and trade-offs; weigh several choices, consider technical limitations, business priorities, and user wants, and then decide how to drive the product in the appropriate direction; You must have the ability to accept minimum viable product.
Knowledge and Skills Required
Essential:
* Proven experience as a Product Owner within the Water industry, and across multiple requirements at any one time.
* Worked on the full life cycle of Data and ideally Digital products where you have set the initial strategy and vision, through to delivery and handover.
* Proven ability in overseeing and guiding Scrum development squads including through external parties.
* Experience of API’s, UX design, Azure Cloud.
* Ability to make tough decisions to best suite the business product delivery needs.
* Strong stakeholder management and excellent communication skills. Ability to communicate with colleagues at all levels across the business, including senior leaders and directors.
* Ability to absorb technical information and communicate effectively to both technical and non-technical audiences.
* Proven analytical and problem-solving abilities.
Desirable:
* Experience of working within the Utilities industry.
Product Owner – Data and Digital, Water, Utilities, SMART Metering - Hybrid with travel to Bradford (1-2 days a week), Outside IR35, £520 - £600 per day, 6 months + extension.