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As a Product Consultant in Kainos you will be responsible for your teams backlog maturity, taking ownership of features from inception through to delivery. You will drive MVP thinking and communicating the value of it with those in your team, the wider project team and relevant stakeholders. You will be a leader in your team, comfortable running agile ceremonies, encouraging engagement and discussion. You will plan and run workshops, engaging with a variety of stakeholders to facilitate consensus in areas of uncertainty. You will actively participate within the Product capability, supporting the delivery of initiatives. You will also manage, coach and develop a small number of staff, with a focus on managing employee performance.
* Experience in bespoke software delivery, operating as a part of an agile team working for an external customer(experience in a client-facing role in a consulting environment is a must-have).
* UK public sector experience (central government).
* Experience of the software development lifecycle, involved from analysis through to acceptance, launch and live operations.
* Excellent facilitator of workshops, able to lead stakeholder groups to achieve focused outcomes.
* Accomplished at modelling As-is and To-be business processes, able to present these to stakeholders and the team to ensure understanding and to achieve buy-in.
* Experience instakeholder management, comfortable challenging decisions when appropriate and tailoring collaboration and communication styles where necessary
* Responsible for the breakdown of an area of work from inception through to delivery, managing the teams backlog ensuring quality and maturity.
* Responsible for theelicitation of functional, technical and non-functional requirements, translating these into user stories so they are easily understood across the whole team.
* Ability to use prioritisation techniques torefine the backlog and manage dependencies.
* Proven ability tomanage scope to meet the required MVP, ensuring value is delivered.
* Ability to work withincommercial constraintsfor example cost restrictions and project deadlines.
* Excellentuser story writing skills, ensuring quality and consistency of stories across the project.
* Proven ability to build trusted relationships both inside and outside of the delivery team, comfortable collaborating on the breakdown of an area into deliverable pieces of work.
* Experiencecontributing to sales activities(e.g. working on bids, writing sales proposals etc.).
* Experienced inAgile methodologiesand able to mentor those in your team as well as coaching our clients.
* We are passionate about developing people – a demonstrated ability in managing, coaching and developing junior members of your team and wider community.
* Experience of explaining technical jargon tonon-technical/commercialteams.
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