Product Owner

Job Description

Product Owner (Service Data Software) - Submarines

Fulltime - 37 Hours

Derby (on-site 3 days per week minimum)

Why Rolls-Royce?

An exciting opportunity has arisen for a Scrum Product Owner (Service Data Software) to join Rolls-Royce Submarines.

We’re a leader in propulsion system design and development for the Royal Navy’s nuclear submarine fleet and the sole provider and technical authority.

Join us and we’ll provide an environment where you can be yourself. An inclusive, digital-first culture that invests in you, gives you a platform for continuous learning, and access to an incredible breadth and depth of opportunities to grow your career.

Rolls Royce Submarines is responsible for the design, manufacture, supply and through-life support of nuclear propulsion-related products and systems in support of the Royal Navy's submarine fleet. You can find out more about the amazing projects that we are working on here:
We are looking for a Scrum Product Owner to join our Service data analytics software team who support the submarines enterprise by using in-service data to gain insights through data analytics and software implementation.

You will have the opportunity to learn about how Rolls-Royce Submarines supports the Royal Navy submarine fleet, work with a range of stakeholders with different backgrounds and expertise, understand their challenges and enable the development team to deliver valuable solutions.

We offer excellent development, a competitive salary and exceptional benefits. These include bonus, employee support assistance and employee discounts.

Your needs are as unique as you are. We encourage flexible working arrangements and support hybrid working wherever possible, so you can always be at your best - wherever and whenever you work.

What you will be doing:
You will be responsible for the delivery of new valuable products as well as maintaining and enhancing the capability of existing products that the team have developed.
- Working within a scaled scrum software development and data analytics environment, with multi-disciplined developers, Scrum Masters and Product Owners.
- Interacting and managing relationships with a diverse range of stakeholders. You will also educate stakeholders on the Agile Scrum development processes to set expectations and maximise collaboration to enable a delivery of a valued product.
- Managing and prioritising product backlogs, this will include but is not limited to the creation of product visions, user stories, acceptance criteria, and product roadmaps.
- empowered to make decisions relating to the products you own to ensure that maximum business value is delivered.

Who we’re looking for:
At Rolls-Royce we embrace agility, are bold, pursue collaboration and seek simplicity in everything we do. These principles form our values and behaviours and are an essential component of our assessment process and are fundamental qualities that we seek for all roles.

To be successful in this role you should have:

- Experience working within a software development environment. Experience with Agile practices either as Product Owner, Scrum Master or developer is preferable.
- Degree level education or equivalent, preferably in computing, scientific or engineering disciplines.
- Excellent communication and stakeholder management skills to enable you to effectively collaborate with a diverse set of stakeholders with varying technical and data analytics backgrounds.
- The ability to comfortably work in a Volatile, Uncertain, Complex and Ambiguity (VUCA) environment and work well under pressure with conflicting priorities.
- Strong prioritisation and rationalisation skills that enable you to break down complex problems into smaller elegant solutions and requirements.

We’re an equal opportunities employer. We’re committed to developing a diverse workforce and an inclusive working environment. We believe that people from different backgrounds and cultures give us different perspectives. And the more perspectives we have, the more successful we’ll be. By building a culture of respect and appreciation, we give everyone who works here the opportunity to realise their full potential.

You can learn more about our global inclusion strategy at

Due to the nature of work the Business conducts and the protection of certain assets a person has to be a UK national or in MoD approved cases a Dual National from a non ITAR country.

Closing Date: 6th April 2023

Job Category

Digital

Posting Date

29 Mar 2023; 00:03