Technical Product Owner

Intelligent Resource is working in partnership with a major Client in the UK. We are currently recruiting for Technical Product Owner to be Reading based out.

Job Title= Technical Product Owner

Location = Reading/Remote

Duration= 6 months initially

Your key responsibilities will be:

• Key activities will include ensuring the IT backlog is maintained prioritised and aligns to Business need, that EPICs and User Stories are developed and accepted by the IT scrum teams. You will align with the Business Product Managers and the Release Manager to co-ordinate deliverables and releases to ensure an optimal outcome for the organisation at all times while ensuring the platform continues to meet day-to-day requirements. You will be expected to live agile values and principles to contribute to harmonious, effective and efficient working environment.
• Define the Metering, Energy Industry interaction & Billing or Customer Engagement products in collaboration with key stakeholders and socialise with the teams.
• -Be the Technical expert in IT for Metering, Energy Industry interaction & Billing or Customer Engagement functions
• -Evolve the Billing & Customer Care IT product roadmap based on customer, product teams and business feedback linked to business outcomes.
• Work with portfolio governance team to define any funding and investment requirements to continue Product enhancement and growth.
• Oversee platform product priorities, resource requirements, and development stages.
• Ensure that Vendor teams are delivering to contractual obligations and maintain positive vendor relationships.
• Anticipating the organisation needs, managing the product backlog and prioritising needs based on value delivered.
• Remove impediments to product progress and aid with work dependencies, risks and issues.
• Determine developments to the Billing & Customer Care IT roadmap based on business priority changes.
• Proactively share knowledge to drive technology learning, understanding and appreciation across Business and IT colleagues.
• Ensure that IT & Business strategy, policy and standards are adhered to, thus achieving commonality and ease of maintenance.
• Apply learning from retrospectives and actively elicit relevant feedback from stakeholders.

What do I need?

• You’ll have experience as a Product Owner delivering platform capabilities, where you’ve exemplified and promoted Agile values and principles. The following skills and experience are essential:
• Essential: Demonstrated experience in Microsoft Dynamics to support either the Metering, Energy Industry Interaction & Billing or Customer Engagement functions of UMAX.
• Relevant experience in an Energy utility and/or experience of utility billing platforms.
• Experience of managing vendors relationships.
• Ability to provide information in a logical and consistent manner and communicate with technical and non-technical audiences.
• Ability to work in environments that are undergoing change, working in an iterative and adaptive manner.
• Ability to thrive in a challenging environment.
• Strong demonstrated experience of agile processes and principles.
• Experience with defining and prioritising a portfolio of work.
• Ability to negotiate requirements, timelines and other delivery metrics across product lifecycle.
• Application of the concepts of delivery risks and issues, and ability to develop counter measures and contingency plans associated with significant delivery risk.

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