Scrum Product Owner-Hybrid - Reigate, Surrey, United Kingdom - WTW

Description

Do you want the opportunity to help shape new digital transformation solutions that have the potential to redefine the way insurers do business? We are looking for an Engineering Product Owner to join our team and help us deliver brand-new cloud-based services.

You will be involved in the product definition and development, working with senior stakeholders such as Product Managers, Engineering Managers and Architects, to define and prioritise a backlog of user stories to be implemented by our scrum teams.

Collaborate with stakeholders (including internal subject matter experts and end-users) and members of the scrum teams to translate this roadmap into a user-story backlog which can be consumed and implemented by engineering teams
Help to ensure the engineering teams understand the strategic product direction so they have contextual awareness of what they are developing, and why
Articulate this backlog into releasable increments, working with the team to ensure the upcoming increment is appropriately defined and planned, covering the various necessary dimensions involved in the development of the product under consideration
Provide input to the sprint planning process, ensuring the scrum team is sufficiently familiar with the proposed stories upfront to facilitate a smooth planning process
Lead and support the scrum team during execution of the sprint and the release increments by providing clarification or further direction where necessary, and taking an active role in mitigating impediments
Keep abreast with Agile/Scrum best practices and new trends, and as appropriate, participate in sprint planning meetings, daily stand-ups, sprint retrospectives, and other scrum of scrum ceremonies, striving to continuously improve the team velocity, its processes and engineering practices
Excellent written and verbal communication skills, ability to influence senior stakeholders
Attention to detail and high-quality standards whilst being pragmatic and delivering at pace
Experience in Engineering Product Owner roles leading one or two scrum teams developing commercial Business to Business applications, or subsystems of such applications
Understanding of the Agile software development lifecycle in a commercial/production environment
Familiarity with scaled Agile frameworks
Prior software development experience
We are an equal opportunity employer committed to fostering an inclusive work environment throughout our organisation. We embrace all types of diversity.