Software Product Owner

Hybrid- Chennai Office

What is the Job all about?

The Software Product Owner is responsible for maximizing the business value of the development delivered by assigned development team(s) and managing the software product backlog(s) for this/these team(s). Works with multiple software teams, product owners, product managers and relevant stakeholders.      

Your main responsibilities:

The Software Product Owner is accountable for the software backlog for assigned team(s). To ensure this following is expected:

• Start new development efforts and guide your area of responsibility.
• Accountable for software development deliveries from multiple teams towards stakeholders
• Clearly expressing software backlog items from an end-to-end perspective (across value chain)
• Ordering the items in the software backlog to best fulfill goals and missions
• Optimizing the value of the work the Development Teams performs
• Participating in Scrum events
• Acting as the liaison between software teams and stakeholders
• Ensuring that the software backlog is visible, transparent, and clear to all, and shows what the Scrum Team will work on next
• Ensuring the Development Team understands items in the software backlog to the level needed.
• Refinement of Epic’s cross functionally within the dependency of the Scrum team.
• Develop short 0-12 month and long term 1–3-year software roadmap for area of responsibility.
• Active participation or guide the prioritizing of urgent tasks, i.e. quality Red Alerts, compliance and development project escalations
• Encourage agile transformation and mindset
• Align and agree on deliveries from outside own function (Across GT I, AME and Product Development in divisions)

 The Software Product Owner is expected to engage in ensuring cohesion for product software development in Grundfos. This includes:

Software Governance

• Feature Governance
• If working towards a division, being the point of contact from software development towards division value stream
• Be part of extended Leadership Team in Software Development

Mandate – what this function/role can make decisions on:

• Sign-off on technical deliverables from scrum teams
• Prioritizing urgent tasks within own teams
• Allocate activity budget within framework given

Your background:

• Bachelor’s Degree or equivalent work experience
• At least 15 years of experience with 7 years of relevancy.
• Ideal resource has good understanding of Variable frequency drives, variable speed drives, frequency converters, inverters etc.
• Ability to communicate Business Development and Product Management decisions and background.
• Software development understanding
• Experience working with a team in multiple locations
• Experience from working in an international company
• Extensive Agile experience and change management
• Fluent English verbal and written
• Like to work in a virtual team where colleagues are placed around the world
• Is able to understand technical problems and make them simple to implement
• Recognized as the initiator in completing tasks
• Can create an architecture what support our platform and also solves the tasks in an smart way
• Can handle that not everything is well defined
• Investigate fresh perspectives and review today's work practices
• Collaborates in a multi-culture environment, dealing with different time zones
• Is able to focus on possibilities instead of seeing the limitations present
• As a person you are structured and like to document your own work
• You should be ready to travel when needed

What’s in it for you?

Whether it’s developing skills or advancing your expertise even further, we’ll support you with continuous learning and development opportunities, to help discuss and steer your long-term Grundfos career path. You’ll be welcomed from day one into an inclusive, trusting environment guided by six core values.

• Development opportunities in an international environment
• People- and value-focused organization culture
• Social-, team and sport events
• Training opportunities

Do you want to learn more?

If this job sounds appealing, please send your resume and cover letter by clicking “Apply”.

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