Technical Product Owner

Job Description:

About the team

The Quality Engineering CoE team works across the Telstra Software Engineering to improve quality engineering practices and culture, and to help Telstra to reach its audacious goals of being a world-class engineering powerhouse and support building in high performing teams.

About the role

As a Product Owner you will be working with a talented engineering team and responsible for executing on our product vision and roadmap by creating and delivering innovative solutions that solve real world problems for our internal customers.

You will have a strong understanding of the technical details of the problem space and products, including a comprehensive understanding of software development practices. As the Product Owner you will be able to make clear decisions on prioritisation, minimum value, and help the team plan and operate accordingly.

What you’ll do

• Work closely with the Product Management, Engineering leads to set priorities for delivery, based on overall vision and product objectives.
• You will help define a product backlog that focuses on achieving agreed product initiatives from the roadmap, and you will be able to guide and focus the delivery team on what problems need to be solved as priorities and why.
• You’ll keep your product backlog up-to-date and prioritized, working with the engineers and delivery teams to refine and provide estimation as needed.
• You’ll work with product management to help define the product roadmap and agree on the key goals, success measures and timeframes.
• You’ll discuss potential impacts with management and the team and be aligned on what’s needed and what you’re working towards.
• You’ll communicate and openly discuss any roadmap implications you identify to Product Management and work together to mitigate. Assist the Standards & Education group to implement and execute effective fit for purpose software development practices.
• Produce and monitor data to demonstrate and track delivery achievements and concerns.
• Collaborate with the development team on customer interactions to discover usability concerns and functional gaps.
• Practice ongoing product discovery together with the development team and the customers and foster a culture of short cycles of experiments.
• Proactively identify and facilitate the removal of impediments, protecting the team from disruption and helping them honor commitments.
• Ensure key collaboration and practices are followed in an efficient manner and continually evolved to suit the needs of the team.
• Foster a culture of collective ownership and accountability for the work completed within the team.
• Work closely with Product Management to ensure stakeholders are provided with the information they require in a timely manner.
• Provide input to the wider team for capability performance, growth and learning.
• Collaborative definition, management and scheduling of work with external teams, to unblock dependencies as required.

What you’ll bring with you:

• Contribute to QECoE engineering standards and frameworks.
• Ability to lead or facilitate discussions on application design.
• Good to have experience leading Cloud hosted (AWS) applications
• Awareness of cloud computing.
• Ability to contribute to discussions around new standards and revisions to existing ones.
• Ability to communicate complex solutions clearly
• Experience in tracking engineering performance and operational health metrics.
• Expertise in microservices or distributed systems architecture.
• Experience in leading discussions and implementation for scaling products.

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