Base Location: Reading
Salary: £700 per day
Working Pattern: 40 hours per week / Full time
Embark on a transformative career journey with SSE energy company, where innovation meets impact in the heart of the IT sector. As a pivotal player in our forward-thinking team, you'll harness cutting-edge technology to drive change and propel the UK towards its ambitious net-zero targets. Your expertise will not only shape the future of energy but also carve a sustainable world for generations to come. Join us and be at the forefront of the green revolution, where every line of code contributes to a cleaner, brighter future.
Key Responsibilities:
- Ensuring the IT backlog is maintained prioritised and aligns to Business need, that EPICs and User Stories are developed and accepted by the IT scrum teams.
- Align with the Business Product Managers and the Release Manager to co-ordinate deliverables and releases to ensure an optimal outcome for the organisation at all times while ensuring the platform continues to meet day-to-day requirements. You will be expected to live agile values and principles to contribute to harmonious, effective and efficient working environment.
- Define the Metering, Energy Industry interaction & Billing or Customer Engagement products in collaboration with key stakeholders and socialise with the teams.
- Be the Technical expert in IT for Metering, Energy Industry interaction & Billing or Customer Engagement functions
- Evolve the Billing & Customer Care IT product roadmap based on customer, product teams and business feedback linked to business outcomes.
- Ensure that SSE IT has appropriate knowledge and technical coverage of the solution components
- Work with portfolio governance team to define any funding and investment requirements to continue Product enhancement and growth.
- Oversee platform product priorities, resource requirements, and development stages.
- Ensure that Vendor teams are delivering to contractual obligations and maintain positive vendor relationships.
- Anticipating the organisation needs, managing the product backlog and prioritising needs based on value delivered.
What do you need?
- Experience as a Product Owner delivering platform capabilities, where you've exemplified and promoted Agile values and principles.
- Demonstrated experience in Microsoft Dynamics to support either the Metering, Energy Industry Interaction & Billing or Customer Engagement functions of UMAX.
- Relevant experience in an Energy utility and/or experience of utility billing platforms.
- Experience of managing vendors relationships.
- Ability to provide information in a logical and consistent manner and communicate with technical and non-technical audiences.
- Ability to work in environments that are undergoing change, working in an iterative and adaptive manner.
- Ability to thrive in a challenging environment.
- Strong demonstrated experience of agile processes and principles.
- Experience with defining and prioritising a portfolio of work.
- Ability to negotiate requirements, timelines and other delivery metrics across product lifecycle.
What happens now?
After submitting your application for the Technical Product Owner role, we understand you're eager to hear back. We value your time and interest, and if your application is successful, you will be contacted directly by the team within 2 working days.
We appreciate your patience and look forward to the possibility of welcoming you aboard.
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