Product Owner

An Amazing Career Opportunity for a Product Owner !!

Location: Cardiff UK

Job ID: 32437

The Product Owner (PO) represents business priorities as set by PACS Product Management (represented by Product Managers) into relevant scrum teams. The Product Owner also attends relevant Product Management meetings about planning and Program Backlog/Vision refinement; this specific role’s assignment will be focused on physical access control systems (PACS) firmware & software components.

The qualified candidate follows the principles of Agile development, gathers product requirements and assures that the team is doing “the right thing” at all times. You will understand the product vision, identify the needs and pass them on to the team in a clear and comprehensive manner, give constant feedback and bring new ideas on Product features.

If this sounds like you, keep on reading!

Who are we?

HID Global powers the trusted identities of the world’s people, places, and things, allowing people to transact safely, work productively and travel freely. Join our winning team, Physical Access Control Solutions (PACS) at our Cardiff location.

The PACS business is highly visible and one of our most significant portfolios within HID Global. The PACS products include smart cards, mobile access and identifications, software, services and controllers for physical access control.

As our Product Owner, you will support HID’s success by:

Preparation and participation in PI planning:

• As a member of the extended Product Management team, the PO is heavily involved in program backlog refinement and prep for Program Increment (PI) planning and plays a significant role in the planning event itself.
• During the event, the PO is involved with story definition, providing the clarifications necessary to assist the team with their story estimates and sequencing.
• Maintaining the team backlog – With input from System Architect/Engineering and other stakeholders, the PO has the primary responsibility for building, editing, and maintaining the team backlog.
• Iteration Planning – The PO reviews and reprioritizes the backlog as part of the prep work for Iteration Planning, including coordination of dependencies with other POs.
• During the iteration planning meeting, the PO communicates story detail and priorities and ensures the team aligns and agrees on a final iteration plan.
• Accepting stories – The PO works with the team to agree on accepted story completion.
• Validating that the story meets acceptance criteria, that it has the appropriate, persistent acceptance tests, and that it otherwise complies with its Definition of Done (DoD).
• Understand enabler work – While POs are not expected to drive technological decisions, they are supposed to understand the scope of the upcoming enabler work and collaborate with System and Solution Architect/Engineering.
• Assist with decision-making and sequencing of the critical technological infrastructures that will host the new business functionality.
• Participate in team demo and retrospective – POs collaborate with their team and any other stakeholders in the team demo.
• Participate in the Iteration Retrospective, where the teams gather to improve their processes and are active in the Agile Release Train’s (ART’s) Inspect and Adapt (I&A) workshop.

Program execution:

• Iterations and Agile teams serve a larger purpose; the frequent, reliable, and continuous release of value-added solutions. During each PI, the PO coordinates dependencies with other POs.
• The PO also has an instrumental role in producing the System Demo for program and Value Stream stakeholders.

Inspect and adapt:

• The PI system demo is part of the I&A workshop. The PO has an instrumental role in producing the PI system demo for program stakeholders.
• To ensure that they will be able to show the most critical aspects of the solution to the stakeholders, POs also participate in the preparation of the PI system demo.

What we will love about your background:

• The codebase is your product, so background in coding is a benefit.
• Experience with agile development and lean innovation practices is a benefit.
• Training in SAFe such as Implementing SAFe and/or SAFe POPM is a benefit.

Your Experience and Education include:

• B.S. degree preferably in a technical field or equivalent combination of education and experience.
• 5+ years’ experience in development and maintenance. Experience encompassing hardware/firmware/software integration and test, new product introduction to manufacturing, and production launch.

Why apply?

Empowerment: You will work as part of a global team in a flexible work environment, learning and enhancing your expertise.

Innovation: You embrace challenges and want to drive ambitious change.

Integrity: You are results-oriented, reliable, and straightforward and value being treated accordingly.

HID Global is an Equal Opportunity/Affirmative Action Employer – Minority/Female/Disability/Veteran/Gender Identity/Sexual Orientation.

We make it easier for people to get where they want to go!
On an average day, think of how many times you tap, twist, tag, push or swipe to get access, find information, connect with others or track something. HID technology is behind billions of interactions, in more than 100 countries. We help you create a verified, trusted identity that can get you where you need to go – without having to think about it.

When you join our HID team, you’ll also be part of the ASSA ABLOY Group, the global leader in access solutions. You’ll have 61,000 colleagues in more than 70 different countries. We empower our people to build their career around their aspirations and our ambitions – supporting them with regular feedback, training, and development opportunities. Our colleagues think broadly about where they can make the most impact, and we encourage them to grow their role locally, regionally, or even internationally. As we welcome new people on board, it’s important to us to have diverse, inclusive teams, and we value different perspectives and experiences.