Technical Product Owner

At Hitachi Rail we design, build and implement signalling and integrated transport systems for freight and passenger networks in every corner of the globe. And we’re looking for a diligent and pragmatic Product Owner to bring their expertise to a portfolio of innovative work - full of excitement, optimism, and ideas.

Job Description

As a Product Owner, you are responsible to create and maintain the product requirements of Human Machine Interface and Traffic Management product lines in the railway domain.

• You will interact with many stakeholders: architects and business analysts at solution level, product design authorities, product line managers and customer representatives.
• All products are part of product lines, product concern will continue across many customer projects and you must incorporate a long term vision in any decision.
• You will present the requirements to the development team and you will be there in the daily work to clarify what is to be done and to facilitate and participate in design activities.
• You will do part of the product planning and you will support the Project Manager in overall planning, resource management and estimation.
• Outside customer projects, you will be involved in design and estimation of offerings and, at any time, in activities related to long term product strategy.

Professional competencies

Qualification

• 5 years of work experience in software engineering

• 3 years of work experience in requirements engineering

• work experience in a mission critical or safety critical domain

Must have

Work experience / familiarity with Scrum and the Scrum Product Owner role

Product engineering skills

• Experienced in writing requirements:
• You can write formal specifications (complete structured product specification in appropriate technical language).
• You can write user stories, use cases, and acceptance criteria.
• You can create use case models and story mappings.
• Familiar with product line engineering practices:
• Production plan, strategic reuse, core assets, product scope, variation points, and variability analysis.
• Configuration management:
• You can work with versions and branches.
• You can manage the complexity of reintegrating branches.

Work experience with project management concerns

• You can consolidate estimations.
• You can manage risk.
• You can do planning.
• You can do resource management.

Work experience in both waterfall and iterative software development processes

• Knowledge of the following (or similar) tools
• DOORS, JIRA

English language fluency and proficiency (all communication and documentation is done in English)

Non-technical skills

✓ you have a sharp personality: organized, express yourself clearly, able to prioritize

✓ you are empathic: you can get the best from stakeholders and the development team without generating conflicts

✓ you have presentation skills: you will do product demos, requirements presentations, reports to management etc.

✓ you are responsible, driven and inspiring, you will be an example for the development team

Would be a plus

• experience in / domain knowledge of traffic management or railway signaling

• previous software engineering experience (development, testing, architecture) at user interface level

• familiar with programming languages, UI frameworks, UI architectures, enterprise

integration architectures

• ability to consider usability, human factors and ergonomics in product design

• familiar with CENELEC standard for software development

• you’ve heard about quality and process management; for example about CMMI -DEV or ISO 9001

Benefits

Excellent career opportunity with a professional development path in a multinational environment, challenging projects with high safety requirements training opportunities, attractive salary, medical care, restaurant tickets, sports programs.