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Product Owner

Location: Home-based (UK) with travel to Bristol for quarterly planning events (approximately once every three months). All business travel and accommodation expenses are covered.

Join a team delivering technology that powers critical UK infrastructure

We're recruiting on behalf of a leading organisation responsible for supporting critical national infrastructure. As a Product Owner, you'll join a growing Product Management team delivering a portfolio of exciting digital transformation projects that are modernising business-critical platforms and services.

This is a predominantly home-based role where you'll work closely with Product Managers, Engineering, Integration and Delivery teams to define priorities, manage backlogs and ensure successful Agile delivery.

Current programmes include:

• AWS cloud migration and integration projects.
• Modernisation of Control and Dispatch platforms.
• ResourceLink transformation.
• Enterprise telephony migration.
• Jira migration and optimisation.

No two days are the same, with the opportunity to contribute across multiple products and strategic technology programmes.

What you'll be doing

• Own and prioritise product backlogs across multiple initiatives.
• Gather and refine business requirements.
• Create user stories, epics and acceptance criteria.
• Work closely with developers, architects, QA and business stakeholders.
• Participate in Agile ceremonies including sprint planning, stand-ups, backlog refinement and sprint reviews.
• Support User Acceptance Testing (UAT) and product releases.
• Manage relationships with third-party development partners.
• Ensure products deliver value while balancing business priorities and technical improvements.

What we're looking for

You'll be an experienced Product Owner who enjoys working in a collaborative Agile environment.

You'll have:

• Experience as a Product Owner or in a similar Agile product role.
• Strong experience writing user stories and acceptance criteria.
• Experience managing product backlogs and prioritising work.
• Confidence working with technical teams and business stakeholders.
• Experience supporting UAT and working with third-party suppliers.
• Excellent communication and stakeholder management skills.
• A pragmatic, self-sufficient approach with the ability to make informed decisions and work independently.

Desirable

• Experience working within Scrum or Kanban environments.
• Familiarity with Agile ceremonies including stand-ups, sprint planning and retrospectives.
• Experience supporting AWS cloud migration or digital transformation programmes.
• Experience using Jira or Azure DevOps.

Why apply?

• Home-based with quarterly planning sessions in Bristol.
• Travel and accommodation expenses covered.
• Opportunity to work on enterprise-scale cloud transformation programmes.
• Collaborative Agile environment with modern technologies.
• Long-term projects supporting one of the UK's leading infrastructure organisations.

If you're a Product Owner looking to make a real impact across large-scale digital transformation programmes, we'd love to hear from you.

TO APPLY - PLEASE APPLY WITH AN UP-TO-DATE CV

Candidates will ideally show evidence of the above in their CV in order to be considered.

Please be advised if you haven't heard from us within 48 hours then unfortunately your application has not been successful on this occasion, we may however keep your details on file for any suitable future vacancies and contact you accordingly.

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