Agile Product Owner/Program Manager

Cyient is a global engineering and technology solutions company. As a Design, Build, and Maintain partner for leading organizations worldwide, we take solution ownership across the value chain to help clients focus on their core, innovate, and stay ahead of the curve. We leverage digital technologies, advanced analytics capabilities, and our domain knowledge and technical expertise, to solve complex business problems.

With over 15,000 employees globally, we partner with clients to operate as part of their extended team in ways that best suit their organization's culture and requirements. Our industry focus includes aerospace and defence, healthcare, telecommunications, rail transportation, semiconductor, geospatial, industrial, and energy.

Agile Product Owner/Program Manager

Job Description

• 15-20 Years into IT with 10+ years as Program Manager / Product Owner / Product manager on agile methodology - preferably transforming IT projects within engineering unit.
• A well-rounded platform product owner to lead a mature engineering team that works on the multiple core digital technologies [Cloud /Data/EAI/RPA] supporting applications, and integrations.
• Ability to work with cross functional unit / technology / programs concurrently and build on product vision and roadmap to deliver a highly successful product / solution framework for customers
• Ability to take an independent and informed view of the current architecture, and be able to review and prioritize opportunities and improvement areas with the respective technical architects, engineering managers and technical leads
• Ability to build a strong working relationship and collaborate effectively with current platform and application development teams and associated PMs, DevOps & ProdOps support

KRA

• Have a strong involvement in product backlog, ensuring the product meets the customers' needs
• Research and analyze qualitative and quantitative data to provide insights to the product group, and provide task-specific support where required (e.g. specification drafting)
• Develop relationships across the wider product team-including technical teams, Information Security, Quality Assurance (QA)-to assist with the definition of product features and requirements
• Work closely with the Development team in a daily basis, ensuring backlog alignment with product vision and strategy
• Provide analytical support to the product group, research and present insights in line with the latest industry trends and customer requirements
• Provide support in refining existing user stories and ensure that prioritized user stories are always up to date
• Form relationships with technical and experience design teams, product managers, product owners and testers to support with the definition of business features and requirements
• Setup and monitor Agile Maturity Model
• Setup Agile framework, principles and
• Create Customer awareness to Agile model
• Maturity improvement of the team on agile concepts based on maturity assessment)
• Target vs. achieved improvement AMM
• Increase in adoption of agile practices / participation
• Feedback from the team (number of impediments/action items identified/resolved measured through retrospection notes/survey)
• Deviation percent from planned roadmap
• Improvements in program timelines and quality
• Cost (Target vs. achieved)
• Reduction in Cost of Delivery
• Schedule and effort deviations (Target vs. achieved)
• Product Owner score (Customer Satisfaction score)
• Release-on-release defect reduction
• Setup Test driven development lie ATTD, BDD, TDD & etc..
• Implement Professional software development behavior (pair programming, continuous integration, clean code, and refactoring)
• Should have Knowledge on XP Practices and Behaviors - Offer training and customized hands-on demos and workshops on Pair/Mob programming, CI, etc.
• Should have Knowledge on Legacy Code Refactoring - Coach teams to safely refactor dirty code.

Technical Role and Responsibilities [Must have 5 of 7 below]

• Strong Knowledge of empirical process control and system thinking
• Strong Knowledge of Lean software development, such as Kanban
• Experience of changing organizational, team, department mind-sets, culture and structure
• Certified Scrum Master with at least 2 years' experience in a Scrum Master or equivalent software delivery role
• Working knowledge of Scrum, XP and Kanban will be an added advantage
• Working knowledge of Agile Contract and government procurement processes will be an added advantage
• Working knowledge of design thinking and workshop facilitation will be an added advantage

Certifications [Must have 5]

• Professional Scrum Master (PSM I) / Certified Scrum Master (CSM)
• CSM / CPO / ACP-PMI Certified.
• Agile Certified Practitioner (PMI-ACP)
• Agile Scrum Master (ASM)
• Scrum Master Certified (SCM)
• SA, SPC, SPCT
• Frameworks: SAFe, Scrum at Scale, LeSS, NEXUS

General Responsibilities

• Provides leadership, direction and mentorship to members of the team.
• Be Innovative and create reusable solutions as Senior Solution Architect
• Oversees a team of developers and ensures strict standards are followed.
• Works as an advocate for team needs such as software, equipment, and training.
• Assists with mentoring and training of all team members.
• Maintains strong focus on customer service to all internal clients.
• Responds to client inquiries and requests.
• Helps define and enforce processes and procedures in the Applications
• Develops and maintains software applications according to specifications.
• Maintains source code control system and application software versioning.
• Identifies emerging technologies that will help the company better leverage resources.
• Adheres to Firm processes for change and configuration management, contributing to ongoing maintenance of audits and other security/compliance initiatives.

Skills & Experience

Agile Framework, Product Management, Software Development

Cyient is an Equal Opportunity Employer.

Cyient recruits, employs, trains, compensates, and promotes regardless of race, color, ancestry, religion, sex, national origin, sexual orientation, age, citizenship, marital status, disability, gender, gender identity or expression, veteran status, and other protected status as required by applicable law. We are proud to be a diverse and inclusive company where our people can focus their whole self on solving problems that matter.