Sr Technical Product Owner-(SME)

Roles and Responsibilities

Role & Responsibilities –

• Act as a Subject/Domain matter expert in Signaling/Train dispatch system. Has proven experience and good hold and working knowledge on Train dispatch Products.
• Work with stakeholders to create and organize product enhancements and defect backlogs

• Works in an Agile environment and continuously reviews the business needs, refines priorities, outlines milestones and deliverables, and identifies opportunities and risks
• Owns backlog grooming of user stories, defects and provides maximum clarity for requirements and acceptance criteria/definition of work done to the development team
• Breaks down big features, user stories, defects into smaller work that can be completed in a sprint and also provide value to customer.
• Owns sprint iteration planning and resolving all functional & technical confusions and roadblocks for the development team
• Owns quarterly PI planning and creates a clear product roadmap for the development team working with stakeholders and tracks and refines backlog through the PI.
• Support scrum values by adhering to scrum principles and practices along with the scrum team’s specific approaches
• Partners with stakeholders and customers across the organization to inform the product vision, strategy, features, and prioritization.
• Develops, owns, and executes product roadmap.
• Translates product roadmap features into well-defined product requirements including features, user stories, and acceptance test criteria
• Implement measures to increase product and functional knowledge of the team and act as the point contact for POs and PMs from onshore teams
• Prioritizes and maintains the sprint backlog for assigned products, balancing the requirements of stakeholders
• Needs to ensure that the quality of the product is not compromised both in terms of the application quality and security
• Shows increasing understanding of the technology stack and its impact on the final product.

Education, Job Qualification and Skills –

• Bachelor’s Degree in “STEM” Majors (Science, Technology, Engineering and Math) with a minimum of 10-12 years of professional experience in the technology space
• Minimum 4 years of product development experience and at least 1 year of experience in Product Management.
• Must have knowledge on Train dispatch systems.
• Balance of technical knowledge and business acumen
• Established background in launching software or services in partnership with engineering teams and high degree of proficiency in prototyping, iterative development, understanding of Agile principles
• Support the creation of a clear vision for a feature/US/product defects with stakeholders and transmit it to development team
• Demonstrates the initiative to explore alternate technology and approaches to solving problems and achieve right business outcomes
• Proactive, self-starter with excellent project management skills and ability to manage multiple tasks effectively
• Excellent communication skills with the ability to engage, influence, and inspire partners and stakeholders to drive collaboration and alignment
• Have demonstrated experience working with global teams, work with agile development and test team and multiple POs from various scrum teams.
• Proven track record of delivering data driven solutions with a customer-first mindset
• Experience successfully driving end-to-end delivery partnering with stakeholders and engineering team
• Excellent collaboration and team building skills.
• Skilled in negotiation and ability to balances value propositions for competing stakeholders
• Able to verbalize what is behind decisions and downstream implications. Continuously reflecting on success and failures to improve performance and decision-making
• Very high EQ and ability to empathize and communicate with customers and stakeholders at all levels of the organization