Technical Product Owner

2 weeks ago


Wellington, Wellington, New Zealand SECTION6 Full time

TECHNICAL PRODUCT OWNER (Perm/ Contract - Anywhere in New Zealand)
Are you a passionate and highly capable technologist who has demonstrable hands-on knowledge and experience gained within the full Agile software development life cycle including taking ownership of the value stream?

You know you are right for the role, and SECTION6 if you:

  • Have the required experience and the _required work rights for New Zealand._
  • Are resilient, openminded, and have the ability to deal with ambiguity.
  • Have energy, drive, and a desire to win against the odds.
  • Do not shy away from a challenge, accountability, and fulfilling responsibility.
  • Have a nimble, analytical mind that thrives on creative, disciplined, handson problemsolving.

Why SECTION6?

  • We value our culture and our people as our competitive advantage. We ensure that our people know their value.
  • Your technical knowledge and communications skills will be welcomed to a fastgrowing company that takes pride in delivering highquality service and whose expertise is in high demand.

_ IMPORTANT - PLEASE TAKE NOTE_

About the Technical Product Owner Role

REQUIRED EXPERIENCE:

  • 10+ years of technology experience to enable an understanding of the software stack and the nature of the software industry.
  • Past experience as a software developer or solutions architect is advantageous.
  • 5 or more years of proven experience as a successful product owner/ manager within an agile product development context, related to Enterprise Software Application Development/ SaaS & IaaS.
  • High level of experience in; establishing product vision and strategy, influencing and facilitating decisionmaking.
  • Seniorlevel experience in providing and driving strategic product vision, translating enduser requirements into technical specifications, and mapping client technical & nontechnical requirements to product purpose.
  • Seniorlevel experience in; developing, scoping, and defining specifications for product features as epics and user stories
  • Prioritise product features and own the product backlog.
  • Leading product release planning, setting delivery expectations, and mitigating release/ sprint goals risk.

Technical Product Owner Responsibilities:

  • Building consensus and collaborating with key technology and business stakeholders to establish the product vision and strategy.
  • Ensuring existing and future initiatives are suited to the platform.
  • Guide product teams toward successfully delivering the product vision through ongoing stakeholder engagement, orderly planning, and strong leadership.
  • Mapping and translating the client's technical and nontechnical requirements related to functionality product purpose and features to be delivered.
  • Providing vision and direction to the product teams and stakeholders, translating enduser requirements into technical specifications.
  • Implementing Agile philosophy, practices, methods, and culture at an enterprise scale.
  • Developing, scoping, and defining appropriately detailed specifications for the product features as epics and user stories on the product backlog so they are clearly understood by the development teams.
  • Making decisions based on tradeoff analysis to stay on track toward business deliverable commitments.
  • Defining acceptance criteria. Enabling the development teams to have clarity of what is required to design, build, test, and deliver.
  • Owning the backlog and writing the Epics and Stories including the acceptance criteria for our teams.
  • Demonstrating business value and the opportunities of particular feature/s.
  • Mitigating impediments to the completion of Release/Sprint Goals.
  • Working with the SECTION6 DevOps team to; plan, design, build, and deliver missioncritical software that meets the client's mission objectives.
  • Acting as an ambassador for the client platform being the primary contact for platformrelated queries.
  • Ensuring the technical consistency of the product's solution.
  • Concisely articulating, conveying, and translating complex technology into relatable and creative language to enable an engaging storytelling approach to Strategic Product Vision & Business Value (Product/ Feature Functionality & Purpose).

About SECTION6

  • At SECTION6, we believe that software is a universal tool through which we can shape the world to realise a bold future and provide opportunities for progress and innovation.
  • We enjoy building simple solutions to complex problems, putting our skills, agility, and adaptive nature to the test, and succeeding where others cannot.
  • If this appeals to you, then you will enjoy working at SECTION6._

We are clear about our purpose and mission.

  • We do meaningful work for organisations essential in the lives of people, communities, and our country. We do this by helping essential service organisations to build missioncritical software.
  • We succeed by focusing on quality delivery through agile and engineering lead software


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