Senior Product Owner

**Senior Product Owner**
**039032**

**Organisation**
- Customers, Communication and Technology

**Job**
- Data Analytics

**Position Type**
- Full Time

**Senior Product Owner**
**£50,000 - £60,000 + Excellent Benefits**
**North Greenwich, London**

**Data and Analytics**

Providing a host of data products and services, Data and Analytics drive better decision-making and improved customer services. Our data scientists, analytics and tools help customers in all kinds of ways - from improving their journeys and providing useful information, through to delivering refunds when things go wrong, and enhancing our operational services and planning.

**Job Purpose**:
Working within Data and Analytics the role will be working to support a number of initiatives to make data open across the business enabling TfL to make informed planning decisions across the network.

The Senior Product Owner will be accountable for analysing, prioritising and translating complex business requirements into user stories that are implementable by an Agile development team. The role holder is responsible for the creation and ongoing maintenance of the product backlog, ensuring the stories have sufficient information to keep a development and test team running at maximum efficiency.

The Senior Product Owner is tasked with enabling the delivery of high quality software, guiding to ensure backlogs are well maintained, prioritised and led, acting as an effective and efficient conduit between the Agile development team and the business partners.

The Senior Product Owner will have excellent knowledge in one of the following areas:

- Back Office Revenue Solutions - this may include Payments, Rating, Master Data, Data Processing, System Integration
- Front End User Interface Systems - Portals, CRM, Mobile Platforms
- Transport Specific Solutions - GIS, Asset Management, Rostering/Scheduling
- Data Products - Data Warehouse/Analytical Solution (specific to roles in Data Analytics)

**Key Accountabilities**:

- Be the product owner for assigned systems within Data and Analytics area as per the agreed principles of Agile software development - e.g. building and maintaining the product backlog, defining the acceptance criteria, sequencing and prioritisation of stories, ensuring stories are appropriately scoped and that developers have the correct understanding of what is required to be built.
- Be the ambassador and domain expert for the product
- Work closely with development team to prioritise product backlog according to business needs and ensure valuable releases
- Oversee with technical delivery manager and other delivery teams to ensure that work is correctly sequenced and prioritised to avoid delivery conflict in terms of integration points and the release calendar
- Be available and crucial when working with delivery teams as product owner. Help educate them with the best possible information and enable those teams to progress
- Provide sponsors and partners with visibility of product development progress
- Communicate product features articulately to confirm the needs of users and allow development teams an accurate understanding
- Collaborate across the Technology Development and Data and Analytics Agile community to ensure that Agile processes are continually reviewed and improvements implemented.

**Knowledge**:

- Deep understanding in scrum (or Kanban) agile development principles, with a willingness to adapt and learn. (Essential)
- Deep understanding of business intelligence, data warehousing, data modelling and dealing with big data (essential for D&A area)
- Deep understanding of software development and delivery
- Understand using Team Foundation Server as an agile planning and tracking tool

**Skills**:

- An able influencer of his/her team and of specialist peers within the department, and of customers and business partners at a project level; makes priority and acceptance decisions that influence the success of team objectives.
- Skilled at multi-tasking and balancing a number of complex work activities including; requirements elicitation and management, interviewing skills, backlog refinement and estimation, prioritisation and acceptance management.
- Excellent oral and written communicator, having good interview and other social skills. This includes the ability to communicate and describe complex technical information in a way that non-technical partners can assimilate the key points, as well as being able to present business value descriptions of requirements to a highly technical developer audience
- Skilled at systems analysis essential for data warehouse/analytics solution construction (essential for D&A area)

**Experience**:

- Experienced as a Product Manager or Product Owner role in an agile development team
- Experience with delivering a product in one of the TfL product categories available
- Successful experience in a dynamic environment, handling multiple tasks, ensuring quality on time to budget
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