Renewable Energy jobs in United Arab Emirates

Product Owner - Data Acquisition

Apply locations Edinburgh, GB time type Full time posted on Posted 2 Days Ago job requisition id JR1487

Wood Mackenzie is the global data and analytics business for the renewables, energy, and natural resources industries. Enhanced by technology. Enriched by human intelligence. In an ever-changing world, companies and governments need reliable and actionable insight to lead the transition to a sustainable future. That’s why we cover the entire supply chain with unparalleled breadth and depth, backed by over 50 years’ experience. Our team of over 2,400 experts, operating across 30 global locations, are enabling customers’ decisions through real-time analytics, consultancy, events and thought leadership. Together, we deliver the insight they need to separate risk from opportunity and make confident decisions when it matters most.

About you and how you can excel in this role

You will be a self-starter, energised by a challenge, passionate about realising and delivering an enterprise data platform to the rest of the business. You will have:

• A desire to develop your career in product management, experience in prioritising work and working within often conflicting constraints.
• Experience of building and supporting platforms for supporting the development and delivery of common capabilities to support a suite of products.
• Ensure robust Quality Assurance for developed capabilities to support scalability and availability.
• Internal customer-led experience of leading a team developing a platform or API to support a large-scale analytics platform would be an advantage.
• Experience of building a medium-term road map for platform capabilities, taking into account a wide range of requests, and prioritising short, medium and long term objectives.
• Knowledge of data architecture and platforms would be an advantage. Ideally some experience of data management tools and large-scale database supporting analytics including relational and graph databases, and handling archive and real-time data in large volumes.
• An understanding of Agile, LEAN and iterative software development.
• Experienced collaborator across diverse customers (Research, Data, UX, Engineering) to achieve customer-focused results.
• Excellent oral and written communication skills.
• An interest in making a difference to the way we power the planet.

About the role

You’ll play a central role in setting the priorities and ensuring a smooth transition of existing pipelines.

Knowledge & experience

• Existing Product Owner or Business Analyst looking to expand their role within a large analytics environment.
• Basic understanding of the product development process including agile software development, design process, and instrumenting analytics.
• Critical thinking skills.
• Understand constraints from a range of sources including technical, design, user, cost/value and regulatory.
• Understand the product development and engineering process from requirement definition through to validation.
• Basic knowledge on the sector the product serves, understanding of the major players, market conditions, and industry standards.

Impact on the team

• Foster healthy culture, support and direction for the team.
• Provide guidance, direction by defining user requirements with clear acceptance criteria across multiple features.
• Work with tech lead to identify solutions that work within a set of defined constraints.
• Represent the team while working with senior product management, sales, and marketing to prioritise product value and benefits.
• Assist in documentation and testing of given solutions to ensure fit for customers.
• Ability to qualify and validate completed functionality to ensure fit for customers.
• Ensure team has a broader understanding of their impact on the wider data platform.

Stakeholder & client relationships

• Present relevant information to development and design teams to secure buy-in and clarify problem statement.
• Translate requirements from customers and define the product functionality according to wider customer needs.
• Inform senior stakeholders on progress and raise risks to the appropriate level.
• Gather feedback from relevant customers and internal stakeholders.

Equal Opportunities

We are an equal opportunities employer. This means we are committed to recruiting the best people regardless of their race, colour, religion, age, sex, national origin, disability or protected veteran status.

If you are applying for a role and have a physical or mental disability, we will support you with your application or through the hiring process.

If you like wild growth and working with happy, enthusiastic over-achievers, you'll enjoy your career with us!

Our Work Experience is the combination of everything that's unique about us: our culture, our core values, our company meetings, our commitment to sustainability, our recognition programs, but most importantly, it's our people.

Our employees are self-disciplined, hard working, curious, trustworthy, humble, and truthful. They make choices according to what is best for the team, they live for opportunities to collaborate and make a difference, and they make us the #1 Top Workplace in the area.