Product Owners/Manager

Job Description

One of our federal government clients is seeking to engage Product Owner for Canberra location. Please note: Candidate must have Citizenship/Baseline/Higher Security clearance. Extension term: 24 months Location of work: Canberra Working arrangements: Hybrid Job details: Product Owners are accountable for maximizing the value of the product resulting from the work of their colleagues in a scrum team by ensuring the team’s backlog of work is aligned with customer and stakeholder needs. Product Owners are a scrum team’s primary advocate for scheme participants and business area staff and primary link to business and technology strategy. Product Owners enable themselves and their scrum team members to balance the needs of multiple stakeholders while continuously evolving solutions. Key duties and responsibilities: Connecting with the customer (scheme business area staff and participants); understanding and articulating customer and stakeholder needs and expectations, identifying problems and developing whole-product solutions. Gaining and applying feedback; arranging for obtaining user and stakeholder feedback, testing benefit hypotheses, evolving solution design and sharing feedback with the Agile Release Train (ART). Contributing to the Change Program vision and relevant roadmaps; representing the end user, understanding the market/context, educating the Agile Release Train (ART) during planning, and assisting with ART’s prioritisation of work. Collaborating with business and the scrum team to deliver value and build the right thing, managing and prioritising the scrum team’s backlog of items, guiding story creation and acceptance, and supporting the architectural runway. In practice, Product Owners conduct the following key activities: Educating and influencing business area staff about what’s desirable, viable and feasible. Being a trusted and transparent ambassador for business within the constraints. Providing a well-refined and ordered product backlog that scrum team members can pull from as they have capacity. Establishing and maintaining a product roadmap to guide development work, ensuring content in DevOps is complete and sufficient in detail. Connecting the product vision to the development process by establishing and maintaining a product roadmap as the key reference point for all scrum team members and other stakeholders. Engaging with business using a range of options for identified problems, articulating the effort involved (time and resources), the impacts of different solutions/options and negotiating any trade-offs. Participating in ceremonies and events which form part of the ways of working. Fostering and championing a culture of continuous improvement in working on product development. Technical skills: Product Owners should have the following experience: 3+ years of experience in a similar role. Understanding of the Digital Service Standard. Relevant qualification in Product Management or Owners (as relevant to the role) or related Agile/SAFe certifications. If you would like to apply for the above role, then please send your updated resume with Cover Letter to . Seniority level Mid-Senior level Employment type Contract Job function Information Technology Industries Staffing and Recruiting #J-18808-Ljbffr