Job Title: Product Owner (2 positions - Snr/Jnr))
Job Type: Permanent Full Time
Location:Exeter
Salary: £26,000-£50,000 based on experience
Holiday: 20 days p.a., rising 1 day per year up to 25.
Circumstances: Permanent right to work in the UK and able to commute to Exeter offices.
We are looking to build our Product Owner team to support the development of our existing software platforms including new and exciting projects in rare diseases and pathology management. You will be working closely with our development team delivering against the platform's roadmaps across the continuum of product ownership.
If you think you would enjoy working with senior scientists and clinicians and learning about advanced development methodologies and modern software development techniques then we would like to meet you.
About you
The ideal candidate(s) will possess outstanding communication skills and demonstrate meticulous attention to detail. We are looking for articulate, organised, and customer-focussed individuals with an ability to excel in a team setting. Experience of leading teams or multi-faceted projects, supplemented by an understanding of Scrum methodology and Agile development would be an advantage. A strong academic foundation in STEM (biological sciences preferred) and an aptitude in computing is required.
About us
You will join a growing team of dedicated, friendly and enthusiastic software engineers and customer facing product owners. We value teamwork and collaboration with an openness to innovative practices and continuous improvement. We strive to deeply understand our customer needs and deliver high quality solutions. We adopt a dynamic working style utilising a team space in our Sheffield and Exeter offices.
About Certus
Certus are at the forefront of the life sciences and healthcare industry developing software systems to support clinicians and other healthcare professionals improve the outcomes for patients living with rare diseases. Our technology platforms are used to support quality management in pathology services and scenario-based training in healthcare related domains to improve patient care, outcomes and organisation efficiencies.
The above full-time, permanent posts are available immediately.
Job Description
Main Purpose of the job:
As a product owner you will be the primary point of contact for Certus’ platforms and customers, overseeing all communications and delivery of application enhancements. Internally, you will be responsible for working with the development team to design, prioritise and and deliver the platform roadmap, in alignment with both the company and customer requirements.
Main Duties and Accountabilities:
* Validate new features against acceptance criteria with the development team, providing clear feedback and scheduling deployments to live applications.
* Work with customers and company directors through meetings, in-person workshops and online forums to understand requirements, articulating these as user stories and acceptance criteria.
* Lead/Contribute to developing the platform vision as a product backlog, using an understanding of stakeholder pressures, user feedback, and company strategy to prioritise feature development.
* Manage customer support and enhancement requests, triage responses, investigate problems and work with the development team to meet service level requirements for product support.
* Working within Scrum methodology, lead and/or collaborate to build Sprints according to developer strengths, the platform backlog, and independent customer development requests.
* Lead/Attend meetings and presentations with current and potential customers to communicate platform and bespoke customer developments, demonstrate new feature releases, create guidance documentation, and manage responses to bug reports.
This job description summarises the main duties and accountabilities of the post and is not comprehensive: the post-holder may be required to undertake other duties of similar level and responsibility.
Person Specification:
Attainment/Qualifications
Essential:BSc degree or equivalent qualification in a product management, software, maths, science or engineering discipline.
Desirable:MSc/Phd degree in a field with significant data analytics focus. Scrum Product Owner certification.
Prior Experience
Essential:Experience/Demonstrations of managing projects or leadership during education.
Desirable:Experience/Demonstrations of using project management and Scrum in industry placement or direct industry employment.Demonstrable ability to understand team capabilities to set expectations, guide and deliver against agreed outcomes.
Technical Skills and Understanding
Essential:
Desirable:Knowledge of Scrum methodology and Agile development.
Delivering Results
Essential:Ability to focus and deliver specific outcomes in appropriate timescales.
Desirable:Focuses effort on priority tasks and activities to achieve maximum results.
Progress multiple activities simultaneously.
Customer Focussed
Essential:Talks and listens to customers to clarify their real needs and expectations
Desirable:Ability to quickly build good customer relationships and understand customer motivations and nuances
Teamwork
Essential:Develops ideas and solutions jointly with others. Supports less experienced colleagues
Desirable:Focuses the team on what will contribute to success in the long term. Gives fair and constructive feedback to team members.
Adaptability
Essential:Adopts ideas used successfully elsewhere. Generates innovative ideas and solutions.
Desirable:The ability to respond & adapt to changing circumstances and to manage, solve problems and provide solutions to constantly improve processes and systems.
Communication
Essential:Excellent written and verbal communication skills.
Desirable:Conveys and presents complex information in plain language.
Circumstances
Circumstances: Permanent right to work in the UK and able to commute to Sheffield or Exeter offices.
If you are excited by this challenging prospect and want to contribute to making a difference in patient and healthcare outcomes, please email a CV and a covering letter to recruitment@certus-tech.com that sets out what makes you a suitable candidate.Applications submitted without a covering letter will be rejected.
Job Types: Full-time, Permanent
Pay: £26,000.00-£50,000.00 per year
Further details at https://www.certus-tech.com/join-us Send your CV and covering letter by email to recruitment@certus-tech.com
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