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The Product Owner at NTT DATA plays a crucial role in managing complex products and ensuring the Agile team delivers maximum value. This position requires a seasoned professional with extensive experience in product management and Agile methodologies. The ideal candidate will possess strong communication skills and the ability to prioritize effectively. A bachelor's degree in Computer Science or a related field is preferred, along with relevant certifications such as SAFe Product Owner. This hybrid role offers the opportunity to work with diverse teams and drive product success.
Job Responsibility:
Provides vision and direction to the Agile development team and stakeholders
Ensures that the team always has an adequate amount of prior prepared tasks to work on
Plans and prioritizes product feature backlog and development for the offer/product
Fully understands the product vision, roadmap and growth opportunities to enable onward articulation into the development team
Assesses value, prioritizes 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
Provides backlog management, iteration planning, and elaboration of the user stories
Works closely with Product Management to create and maintain a product backlog according to business value or ROI
Leads the planning product release plans and sets expectation for delivery of new functionality/capability
Provides an active role in mitigating impediments impacting successful team completion of release and Iteration goals
Drives iteration goals and iteration content via prioritized stories
Establishes story acceptance criteria, accepts stories into the baseline
Researches and analyzes the market, the users, and the roadmap for the product
Follows business competitors and the industry and keeps abreast with Agile/Scrum/SAFe best practices and new trends and seeks to relentlessly improve the operation of the Product Owner role
Requirements:
Seasoned knowledge of the technologies and portfolio of offers
Seasoned knowledge of product development in an ITC industry
Seasoned knowledge of the SAFe's practices and its application/operation
Powerful communication aptitude, with an innate ability to say 'no' in a way that will not discourage or upset the business
Effective escalator with good resolution skills
Seasoned ability to empower teams – through strong collaboration and knowledge brokering
Seasoned understanding of iterative development
Seasoned understanding of the value of commitments to delivery made by a development team
Seasoned understanding of incremental delivery and the value of metrics
Ability to relate to, and integrate with alternate development methodologies (for example, waterfall)
Be conversant in DevOps practices and understand strong relationship and bi-directional dependency required with deployment teams
Seasoned demonstrated experience in Product Management and / or Product Development
Seasoned demonstrated experience in building managed services solutions
Seasoned demonstrated program or development management experience
Seasoned planning experience
Seasoned Agile coaching experience
Experience working in Agile approaches: XP, Kanban, Crystal, FDD, etc.
Seasoned experience managing multiple teams and product roadmaps