Staff Product Owner

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Job Description

About Team:   

Digital Platforms & Engineering is ThermoFisher’s “Software Engineering” center of excellence in Bengaluru. This provides elite software and cloud computing services that help scientists do their work more efficiently and with precision, enabling them to make our world healthier, cleaner, and safer.  

Our premier software products and solutions accelerate scientific discovery and lab productivity. These solutions,   

- Provide rich content, selection tools, collaboration tools, and scientific apps that allow scientists and researchers to focus on innovation and the complexities of their science.   

- Create a connected world for our customers where discoveries happen the inquisitive way, where every device/product is connected, self-aware, and self-healing—thereby enabling efficient workflows and collaborative science.   

We apply industry-standard methodologies to the design, development, and deployment of world-class software products built to demonstrate the power and scalability of the cloud.  

Roles & Responsibilities:  

Purpose:  

The Staff Product Owner (PO) provides business and functional expertise and acts as the voice of the customer in articulating and prioritizing desired functionality for the project teams delivering Connect Enterprise. Staff Product owner owns the delivery of the team being truly aligned to customer intent and business value. Staff Product owner is the sole arbiter of the team backlog, but leans on the development team to help refine, chip in, and sequence work. As an indirect leader, the staff product owner ensures that the collaboration is meaningful and impactful. This person is transformational with the requisite functional knowledge to bridge the divide between business intent and execution by the team.  

Responsibilities:   

Staff product owners, collaborate with global product management partners and customers to co-develop a roadmap and drive products and features from concept to launch in a fast-paced environment.  They work with multi-functional teams and various partners, including analytics, design/user experience, engineering, and user enablement.  They are experienced in an Agile environment and continuously review the business needs, refine priorities, outline landmarks and work, and foresee opportunities and risks.  They partner with stakeholders and teams across the organization to inform the product vision, strategy, features, and prioritization.  

They develop, own, and drive product roadmaps. Translate product roadmap features into well-defined product requirements including features, user stories, and acceptance test criteria.  They work with user-focused departments to define the self-service user experience, support, and monitoring for customers.  They prioritize and maintain the sprint backlog for assigned products, balancing the requirements of partners.  

Staff POs lead the product functional design process based on an intimate knowledge of the users and technology.  They define and drive go-to-market plans, working to ensure that product management, marketing, and leadership have what they need to be successful.  They create, refine, and delete work items in the team backlog to keep it organized, relevant, and dynamically elaborated just in time  

They can identify, document, and drive the Non-Functional Requirements (NFR), DevOps, and other technical needs for the products.  

They exhibit the Lean-Agile Mindset. Help the team embrace SAFe Core Values, adopt and apply SAFe Principles, and implement SAFe practices.  They actively participate in all the team meetings, including the Daily Stand-up, Iteration Planning, Iteration Review, and Iteration Retrospective etc.

They collaborate with the Release Train Engineer, Product Management, and Scrum Masters to ensure the team is prepared in advance for program-level events such as PI Planning, Inspect and Adapt, and system or PI demos . They assist the team in effective preparation for the same.

Staff POs guide the team in establishing normalized estimates and help the team understand how to estimate Features and Capabilities. They will build information radiators to ensure proper visibility and clarity between development teams, partners, and the org. They can report the trends of Product Backlog for the current and upcoming PI, and actions taken, and are innovative in coming up with new reporting data sets which is relevant for the overall process efficiency.  

They anticipate the needs and problems in the development cycle. They are willing to ask difficult questions and do things differently. They greet challenges and change as opportunities

They are responsible for ensuring the team adheres to the QMS (ISO9001:2015) & ISMS (ISO 27001) standards set in the Software development process. They lead and facilitate any new changes required to the process and support the auditing of these as per the regulatory body mandates. While being obsessed with process automation and coming up with ideas to power the next generation of the product, they also promote a collaborative team environment that cultivates experimentation, creativity, and innovation 

Being a motivated fast learner who can self-start and “figure out what needs figuring out” . They exhibit excellent verbal and written communication skills. Ability to effectively document artifacts and processes and then explain them to others  

Candidate Requirement:  

Education: Bachelor's in engineering or master's in computer science with 6+ years of relevant experience  

Mandatory Skills, Knowledge, and Experience:  

1) Validated experience of 6 years in software development as a developer or Business Analyst.  

2) Minimum 1 year of working experience in SAFe framework  

3) Minimum 2 years of experience as a programmer, tester, or PO in working on projects using technologies like Java, Angular, AWS, Jenkins, etc.   

4) Experience, instincts, and passion around testing and testability and driving quality objectives  

5) Balance of technical knowledge and eye for business  

6) Experience in driving implementation and reporting of Non-Functional Requirements (NFR – Security, Performance, Cost, etc.)  

7) Proven track record of delivering data-driven solutions with a customer-first approach  

8) Established background in launching software or services in partnership with engineering teams and a high degree of proficiency in prototyping, iterative development, and understanding of Agile principles  

9) Experience successfully driving end-to-end delivery of data and intelligence solutions, including a wide variety of mechanisms, e.g., dashboards, APIs, real-time alerts, etc.  

10) Experience working with geographically dispersed teams  

11) High degree of organization, individual initiative, and personal accountability  

Strong communication and influence business and technical teams  

Nice to Have Skills, Knowledge and Experience:  

1) Experience in working and running the Atlassian suite tool  

2) Have experience and knowledge of the Kanban framework  

3) Any scrum certifications.  

4) Experience in the adoption of QMS (ISO9001:2015) & ISMS (ISO 27001)