Product Owner

You will work in the Data Engineering and Enablement Division that reports into the Data Operations Directorate. It’s an exciting time to join as we seek to create leading Health Protection data capabilities that enable data scientists and data analyststo develop insights that inform public health decisions with resilience platforms and curated data assets.

The core activities of Engineering and Enablement include the ingestion of data sources, building data pipelines, curated data views and data capabilities fused from data, models and software that enable the exploitation of data by analysts, data scientistsand MI teams.

You will be involved in the delivery lifecycle from engaging with stakeholders on new initiatives, analysing use cases, developing optimal designs that where possible re-use and extend capabilities, and implement and operate the design. Our teams work collaborativelyin an agile multi-disciplinary team mode and we are looking for a Product Owner to engage with stakeholders and acquire knowledge on a specialist field to delivery data engineering capabilities in line with business partner strategies.

You will draw from an extensive background of experience in translation of requirements into technical deliverableswithin a software and data lifecycle environment. You will be fluent in the current data engineering capabilities and the potential extensionand creation of new data engineering capabilities to achieve the objectives of their Data and Analytics Partners.

You will possess excellent people management skills, be able to engage and build strong relationships with business partners. The key skills required include strong relationship management, be commercially astute, strong data analysis, clear and concisecommunications both verbally and written and ability to develop business partnering.

**Communication and key working relationships**

Internal
- Delivery Leads
- Scrum masters
- Data Engineers
- Architect/solution leads

External
- Business Partners
- UKHSA leadership team
- Analytics and Reporting
- Central delivery team
- Surveillance and Covid Testing teams
- ONS

**Main duties and responsibilities**
- **Product Delivery -** You will be responsible for establishing and developing solutions with Stakeholders using product development techniques for road mapping (e.g. MOSCOW, Kano, or Pareto) and selected tools to describe the Product vision(e.g. business model canvas, lean canvas, or vision box). You will be commercial geared and propose newsolutions to increase the Data Product’s business value ensuring alignment to their business partners objectives as part of the UKHSA strategy.
- **Stakeholder Management -** You will develop strong relationships and close collaboration with Business partners to define the next iterations of the Data Product and plan their releases. Deliver excellent communications, presenting the team’sperspective to the business partner, and building their trust.Understand the business and technical requirements and capabilities with the ability to propose new solutions to meet their Data and Analytics Partner’s needs.

**Delivery framework -**You will demonstrate your experience across Product Lifecycle including Strategy, Development, End User Experience, into an agile delivery framework, working alongside scrum masters and data engineers to ensure all deliverablegoals are met without any impact to quality.

**Essential Criteria**
- Strong relationship management: excellent communication and influencing skills - verbal and written - with the ability to liaise at all levels.
- Balance of both technical awareness and business acumen.
- Ability to manage in an ambiguous environment, clarifying strategies and plans, giving a sense of direction and purpose for self and team.
- Ability to drive change and overcome obstacles and resistance.
- Constructive and collaborative but with the ability to step in and take decisions in a timely manner to move the team forward.
- High attention to detail
- Experience with Agile delivery and working in Agile Scrum teams

**Desirable Criteria**
- Experience of working with JIRA (or Azure DevOps or similar tools) within an Agile/Scrum environment
- Experience/understanding of software and data lifecycle management
- Educated to degree level (not essential, experience is key). Relevant numerate, technical or computer science discipline would be an advantage

Knowledge of data management platforms and development with SQLServer