Product Owner - Automation and Telecommunications

Job Title: Product Owner - Automation and Telecommunications

Type: Contract (3 month rolling)

Location: Reading & Remote

Pay Rate: TBC Inside IR35

Start Date: ASAP

Flint Technology Services is looking for a Product Owner with extensive knowledge of automation and a strong background in telecommunications to join one of our clients, based in Reading. You will be responsible for maximizing product value and the work of the development teams. You will work with internal customers, systems transformation, business analysts and development teams to ensure maximum value is delivered across our scaled scrum teams.

Key responsibilities

• Build and assess use cases into a prioritised backlog, estimate MVP and business value delivered.
• Work alongside Solution Architect to do strategic use case design and design tactical solution with strategic outcome in mind
• Internal/External stakeholder engagement (including vendors)
• Set standards, provide thought leadership to wider community across CTO etc.
• Encourage close loop automation across E2E Plan, Provide & Assure ensuring Automation Silos are ALWAYS broken.
• Set development and SA targets
• Support sprint planning by prioritising, shaping of tickets; size ticket and allocating to squads
• Communicate updates to key stakeholders
• Help stakeholders to think strategically
• Explore new ways of working, tools and solutions that helps us achieve our strategic objective in more efficient ways
• Own your Product roadmap from strategy through to delivery
• Develop & mentor your teams and arrange training where necessary
• Encourage data-driven decision-making and sprint planning
• Work across Fixed, Mobile & B2B network and create synergies and consolidation where possible

Essential skills, knowledge, or experience

• Experience in a Senior Product Owner role, ideally in a large Telco or IT company
• Experience working in Networks or IT network transformations
• Proven track record of delivering value
• Process Design
• Lean Six Sigma
• SAFe/Scrum
• Knowledge of telecom networks, technologies, and standards eg TMF/Tosca/MEF
• Experience with any of the following Automation tools such as Appian, Blueprism, Cisco NSO, Itential IAP, Rakuten Symphony, Resolve, Nokia Now.
• Experience or awareness of CI/CD/CT