Product Owner Optical Transport

Summary:

Duties & Responsibilities:

Key Responsibilities

• You will work day-to-day with multiple scrum teams:
• Grooming the team backlogs by breaking down program requirements into stories: defining the “WHAT”, “WHY”, acceptance criteria and relative priority
• Contributing to daily updates, sprint planning, sprint reviews and retrospectives
• Act as quality control by defining the acceptance criteria and validate the team deliverables
• Accountability for backlog refinement and prep for PI planning, playing a significant role in the planning event itself
• Defining Stories and prioritising the team backlog to streamline the execution of program priorities while maintaining the conceptual and technical integrity of the features or components for the team
• Accountable for quality, defining acceptance criteria and accepting stories as done
• Work with the teams to ensure priorities are maintained for features and defects throughout the PI
• Review and reprioritise the backlog as part of the prep work for Iteration Planning, including coordination of dependencies with other Product Owners
• During PI preparation the PO is accountable for coordinating dependencies with other POs to ensure what is required from each team is clearly defined
• Provide training information and demo’s if required for new feature delivered by their teams

Your skills and qualifications will ideally include:

• Strong engineering background and degree in Software Engineering, Computer Science, Electronics
• Have experience as Product Owner, Business Analyst or Product Manager
• Ability and willingness to work methodically within a defined process to produce high quality software:
  • Previously worked in SAFe or Scrum environments
  • Eager to work in an agile set-up continuously improving your agile skills
• Ability to manage complex and multiple projects simultaneously in a deadline-driven environment:
  • Proven leadership skills to motivate, coach and inspire at all levels
  • Ability to solve significant and unique issues using variable factors
• Experienced in creating, maintaining and prioritising product backlogs using product management tools (Jira):
  • Excellent at breaking epic level items into appropriately sized user stories, with the correct level of detail and acceptance criteria required
  • Able to discuss & evaluate technical architecture recommendations
  • Ability to work in dynamic and fast moving/changing development
• Strong collaboration and team working skills, with the ability to establish and maintain effective relationships cross-functionally and across all levels
  • Able to influence senior stakeholders and business owners
  • The ability to influence change:  lead by example, and make recommendations on strategic decisions
  • Comprehensive communication skills, both verbal and written

Technology Domain competencies

• Experience in Layer 2 Ethernet and related network protocols for carrying IPv4 and IPv6 connectivity, and Layer 4 packets
• Experience in switching and routing of the above protocols to implement a network
• Experience in IP based data applications, protocol compliance and performance.
• Experience developing embedded applications for a Linux operating system
• Experience profiling and optimizing the application for benchmarking at large scale
• Familiar with creating and using JSON-RPC API’s
• 7+ years programming in embedded C and C++
  • Ability to write clear, portable, maintainable and efficient code.
  • Ability to write concise and accurate documentation.
• Experience in Continuous Integration and delivery pipelines (eg. Jenkins, Bamboo)
• Configuration management and test coverage tools (eg. JIRA, JIRA X-ray)
• Version control tools (eg. GIT, Bit Bucket)

Pre-Requisites / Skills / Experience Requirements: