Product Owner
6 Months
Hybrid -30% in office either - London or Bristol
£800
Overview:
Working within an agile digital delivery team developing and supporting a mission critical application for the UK client , with instances hosted on both a secure cloud platform (AWS) and on VMs hosted a managed on-prem hosting environment. The application is extant and Live. You are to be the Product Owner, proactively engaging with the Client's broad array of senior (MOD) military and civilian senior stakeholders and end User representatives, defining the Product vision, turning that vision into a prioritised product backlog and roadmap, representing and promoting wider adoption of, and feedback on, the product at stakeholder forums, and ensuring ongoing strategic alignment between the product and the stakeholders to ensure it meets evolving business needs. You will have experience of the defence industry, an understanding of defence outputs and priorities, and of agile product delivery. You will be comfortable using the supporting tools for Agile product delivery such as JIRA (User Story / Defect / Task Management), Confluence (Documentation / Comms), and Slack (collaboration / comms).
Key tasks:
* Manage backlog
* Run S&T (Show & Tell)
* Engage senior stakeholders
* Write user stories
* Prioritise backlog based on value
* Refine user stories with dev team
* Accept/reject work based on Def of Done
* Align delivery to product vision
Technical Skills / Languages / Tooling:
* Defence industry experience
* Market Research
* Road-mapping
* Agile/Scrum certified
* JIRA/Confluence/Trello
Clearance:
SC
Travel:
Hybrid role, predominantly remote, but some travel to Client site will be required (estimate 1-2 times per week to London and/or the South / South-East).
