Technical Product Owner

Job Purpose: The Emirates Group is looking to provide IT professionals'
opportunities to join the world of aviation and travel. Technology is evolving
and applications are widely used across all the Emirates Group, which includes
the world's largest international airline Emirates, and one of the worlds
largest combined air services providers, dnata. The Group is experiencing a
strong recovery and demand across its businesses and is offering a range of
career opportunities for skilled IT professionals to work with technologies at
world-leading innovative partners in a dynamic and evolving environment.
Offering a dynamic and varied technology environment, the Group offers
exciting career growth opportunities with requirements across B2C, B2B,
corporate support functions, fulfilment and operations, to support its ‎40+
different businesses and brands in Dubai and globally. Aside from its own
internal programmes, Emirates has also invested into a number of innovation
programmes such as the Aviation X-Lab in partnership with GE, Airbus, Thales,
and Collins Aerospace; and Intelak in partnership with Accenture, Microsoft
and Dubai Tourism Technical Product Owners (TPO) are the "front door" to the
engineering teams, feeding team backlogs with work spread across feature,
function, non-functional (NFR), BAU, Technical Debt, spikes, and ceremonies.
As a result, the TPO constantly juggles and prioritises the different types of
work flowing into the team, making decisions in alignment with other TPO's,
and ensuring they meet the objectives of the Program Increment (PI) The TPO
acts as a voice of the customer/stakeholder, ensuring value is at the core of
everything they do, and ensuring sufficient measurement can be achieved post-
delivery. Working closely with the Technical Product Managers (TPM's), the TPO
consumes details of the prioritised Features, and translates them into the
decomposed story definition for their teams, in readiness for further
refinement. The TPO will typically work to a target radar 'near' view of ‎2-‎8
weeks, supporting the team(s), ensuring constant focus upon current and next
iteration, and preparing backlogs for current + ‎2 and + ‎3 iterations. JOB
ACCOUNTABILITIES - Responsible for the story content, acceptance criteria
definition, and end story 'sign off' across team backlogs, ensuring prepared
on time for future PI's, refined frequently with the entire team, and
prioritised accordingly in alignment with other team backlogs. - Ensures
Technical Debt and NFR's are captured, refined, and prioritised across all
sprints. - Captures additional BAU, Ceremony, and Spike activities, and
incorporates into team backlogs, within the boundaries of available capacity.
- Prepare contribution to PI demo, in conjunction with other applicable
Product Owners - Maintain the quality and integrity of features within their
technical and team boundaries, ensuring identification and contribution of
risks and dependencies back to the Product Portfolio backlog - Attends and
contributes to key Product Management meetings, in particular PI Planning. -
Defines metrics to measure the success and performance of prioritised work,
ensuring any further BAU iterations can be proposed and prioritised
accordingly within the boundaries of available capacity. - Participates in
establishing and growing a community of Product Owners, building an identity
for the role, focus upon collaboration, and identifying opportunities for
improvement and growth. - Contribute to the Product Management Communities and
their continual evolution to help drive efficient practices and empowered
teams. - Working with your team(s) to identify and capture team driven
innovation ideas, consolidating across peer group for playback up to TPM
(Technical Product Manager) community.
Qualifications & Experience: Qualifications: - Operations Research, Marketing
science, Information Systems, e-Commerce or a combination of industry
certification and ‎5+ years of relevant experience - Global Product
(CSPO/SAFe/PSPO) trained and certified Experience: ‎2+ years practical
experience of working as a Product Owner/Manager, in a 'team facing' capacity,
with proven record of driving discernible change and delivery, at pace. Whilst
not essential, some experience of working within a Scaled Agile framework,
across multiple initiatives and circa ‎50+ teams. - Well-versed with the tools
for the Product Management aspects of software delivery - Strong and concise
communicator at peer, line, and stakeholder levels. - Builds strong
relationships with peers and team members. - Appetite for building and
identifying value, with a customer centric mind-set. Leadership Role No
Multiple roles available requiring the following skills and experience. ‎1.
Operations - Aviation Operational experienced Product Owners with knowledge
and experience in Airline / Airport ground handling products ‎2. Digital -
Product Owners who are passionate about ecommerce and digital space with
experience and understanding of Internet Booking Engines. ‎3. Digital - Product
Owners who can drive simplicity when it comes to Digital Payment solutions and
a passion for Fintech. ‎4. Commercial - Product Owners who are thought leaders
when it comes to Salesforce ‎5. ERP - Oracle ERP Product owners who get product
Management and Agile, but also are experienced in ERP, ideally but not
essentially the Oracle HR & Finance modules
Salary & Benefits: Join us in Dubai and enjoy an attractive tax-free salary
and travel benefits that are exclusive to our industry, including discounts on
flights and hotels stays around the world. You can find out more information
about our employee benefits in the Working Here section of our website
www.emirates.com/careers. Further information on what's it like to live and
work in our cosmopolitan home city, can be found in the Dubai Lifestyle
section.