Principal - Product Owner (Cargo Solutions) - Dubai, United Arab Emirates - Accelya

Description

As a Product Owner (PO) at Accelya, you bridge the gap between the customer and business and needs and the development organisation.

You ensure that product and technology teams work together daily to make sure the delivery of products that customers love.

As a key stakeholder in the Agile team, you maximise the value delivered by ensuring that the teams backlog is aligned with the customer and key stakeholder needs and the solution or capabilities needs are well understood.

As part of the Product organisation, you represent the business and customer within the Agile team working together with the Product Manager (PM), who defines why and what should be done, with what can be done, collaborating daily with the development team and development manager to ensure the use cases, acceptance tests are well understood, sized and the backlog is prioritized.

• In close partnership with the PM, as the PO you are responsible for the development stage of the product lifecycle, ensuring the customer and business voice is well understood throughout.
• By working with key stakeholders (PM, Architects etc.) you can create the requirements, user stories and acceptances tests that provide the freedom to the technology team to solve challenges, while making sure the product is solving the real business challenge.
• You understand the market and transformations occurring in the customer base, you represent the customer (buyer) and user (business user or end customer) in the planning process and prioritize the backlog.
• You work with the development management and team on estimations and expected release times, holding stakeholders account to commitments.
• You work with the teams planning and managing the backlog and allocate that work to the development capacity aligned with the PM's guidance.
• You welcome feedback and adapt plans from internal and external stakeholders and ensure quality, security and design are parts of every iteration.

• Professional experience in Product Owner roles.
• Some experience in the travel industry is preferred.
• Has a proven track record of action and execution in bringing products to market.
• An excellent communicator and team collaborator to ensure execution of the roadmap.
• Worked in Agile teams with a benefit of training or certification. SAFe agile is mandatory
• Exposure to hyperscaler based solutions (for example AWS) is preferable or products on a transformation path to true cloud solutions.
• Experience in platform/API solutions along with business user front ends.
• Demonstrate technical curiosity and passion for exploring new technologies for future technical roadmap via continuous learning and selfdevelopment.
• Experience understanding technical and platform topics.