Integrated Product Owner - Submarines

Integrated Product Owner - Submarines

Full Time, Office Based

Location: Glasgow

An exciting opportunity has arisen for an Integrated Product Owner to join our Product Development Team at Rolls-Royce Submarines in Glasgow.

You will work as a leader in our safety-critical product development team, delivering a complete product design through a stringent design process. You will be the Product Owner for a development team using agile Scrum methods to develop high integrity FPGA based applications adopting the latest state-of-the-art toolsets. Training will be provided where required to equip you with the skills necessary to develop requirements, architectures, designs, HDL code, associated tests, and supporting infrastructure for applications essential for the protection and monitoring of a nuclear propulsion plant.

Why Rolls-Royce?

Our submarines business is responsible for the design, manufacture, supply, and through-life support of nuclear propulsion-related products and systems in support of the Royal Navy's submarine fleet. Join us and we’ll provide an environment where you can be yourself. An inclusive, digital-first culture that invests in you, gives you a platform for continuous learning, and access to an incredible breadth and depth of opportunities to grow your career.

A role within Submarines will offer you the opportunity to work across all phases of the product life cycle, solving technical challenges across a wide range of digital, software, programmable hardware, and electronics technologies, systems, and applications. You will be able to build the career you desire as an engineer, technical specialist, or technical leader. We want you to maximize your potential and will support your technical development through coaching, experience, and training.

You will be encouraged to bring in fresh ideas and generate creative ways of working to improve our effectiveness, allowing you to make an impact in delivering programmes that are strategically important to the nation.

The applications you will be involved in are leading-edge solutions addressing the challenges of meeting the highest safety integrity requirements.

Within the team, there are opportunities to develop your career in technical management, team leadership, or as a technical specialist. You will lead across the project, the technical capability, and the day-to-day people management of the teams.

What we offer:

Training will be provided where required to equip you with the skills necessary to develop requirements, architectures, designs, HDL code, associated tests, and supporting infrastructure for applications essential for the protection and monitoring of a nuclear propulsion plant.

We offer excellent development, a competitive salary, and exceptional benefits. These include bonuses, employee support assistance, and employee discounts. We encourage flexible working arrangements and support hybrid working wherever possible, so you can always be at your best - wherever and whenever you work.

What you’ll be doing:

• You will oversee a safety-critical development lifecycle to:
• Develop requirements, from equipment to implementation level, for FPGA based designs.
• Develop and verify VHDL code.
• Support hardware-based testing of your designs.
• Author and review design documentation.
• You will develop and explicitly communicate product goals and roadmaps.
• You will create, order, prioritize, and communicate a product backlog.
• You will solve product-related problems, make decisions, and complete trade-off analysis to stay on track towards business deliverable commitments.
• You will confidently represent stakeholders and provide clear leadership for assigned Scrum teams.

People Accountabilities:

• You will manage a team of people through their day-to-day work in an office.
• You will support engineers with personal development and performance.

Capability Accountabilities:

• You will work to establish a step improvement in FPGA capability across the office.
• You will engage across the wider Rolls-Royce organisation to introduce learning and maintain a strong engineering capability.
• You will contribute to the continuing improvement of the development processes and product quality by attending regular audits.

Who we are looking for:

• Be qualified to Degree level (or equivalent experience) in Electronics Engineering, Computer Science, or related discipline.
• Be a certified Scrum Product Owner.
• Be experienced in designing and verifying designs expressed using VHDL.
• Have the ability to provide clear, concise, and accurate technical reports.
• Be able to manage and resolve ambiguity on a technically complex product.

Experience of the following, while not essential, would be beneficial:

• Tools:
  • Azure DevOps
  • Git
  • IBM Engineering Requirements DOORS
  • Siemens - QuestaSim / ModelSim, Questa PropCheck, FormalPro
  • Synopsys - Synplify Pro
• Standards, Frameworks, and Techniques:
  • Knowledge and experience of safety standards such as IEC 61513, IEC 62566, IEC26262, DO-254.
  • UVM
  • Constrained Random Testing
  • Formal Verification
• Languages:
  • VHDL, SystemVerilog, TCL, Python

We’re an equal opportunities employer. We’re committed to developing a diverse workforce and an inclusive working environment. By building a culture of respect and appreciation, we give everyone who works here the opportunity to realise their full potential.

To work for Rolls-Royce Submarines you need to hold a Security Check (SC) clearance without any caveats to that clearance. Rolls-Royce will support the application for Security Clearance if you don’t currently have this in place. Due to the nature of work the business conducts and the protection of certain assets, you must hold a UK nationality. Any dual nationals will require additional scrutiny and background checks prior to commencing work with RRSL.