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A career at Hitachi Rail will help create a legacy. With operations in every corner of the world, our work goes to the cutting-edge of digital transformation and technology. From the multi-cultural strength of our global organisation to the sustainable and innovative ways we work to bring people together, there’s something for everyone to get stuck into. And that’s where you come in.
Bucharest, Romania (Hybrid)
Product Owner
Brief task description
As a Product Owner, you are responsible to create and maintain the product
requirements of the ICS product line in the transportation domain.
You will interact with many stakeholders: architects and business analysts at solution level, product design authorities, product line managers and customer representatives.
All products are part of product lines, product concern will continue across many customer projects and you must incorporate a long term vision in any decision.
You will present the requirements to the development team and you will be there in the daily work to clarify what is to be done and to facilitate and participate in design activities.
You will do part of the product planning and you will support the Project Manager in overall planning, resource management and estimation.
Outside customer projects, you will be involved in design and estimation of offerings and, at any time, in activities related to long term product strategy.
The development will be performed in a professional environment in close cooperation with experts from France, Portugal, Hong Kong, Spain, Singapore, Australia, UK, Italy and others.
Professional competency

Education and experience:

• Technical Bachelor degree
• 5 years of work experience in software engineering
• 3 years of work experience in requirements engineering
• work experience in a mission critical / safety critical or transportation domain

Preferred tools and methods:

• Scrum and the Scrum Product Owner role

Personal competencies:

• product engineering skills
• experienced in writing requirements
• you can write formal specification (complete structured product specification in appropriate technical language)
• you can write user stories, use cases, acceptance criteria
• you can create use case models and story mappings
• familiar with product line engineering practices (production plan, strategic reuse, core assets, product scope, variation points and variability analysis)
• configuration management (you can work with versions, branches, you can

manage the complexity of reintegrating branches)

• work experience with project management concerns
• you can consolidate estimations
• you can manage risk
• you can do planning
• you can do resource management
• work experience in both waterfall and iterative software development processes
• knowledge of the following (or similar) tools: Polarion, JIRA

Would be a plus

• experience in / domain knowledge of transportation
• previous software engineering experience (development, testing, architecture) at user interface level
• familiar with programming languages, UI frameworks, UI architectures, enterprise integration architectures
• ability to consider usability, human factors and ergonomics in product design

Personal competencies

• you have a sharp personality: organized, express yourself clearly, able to

prioritize

• you are empathic: you can get the best from stakeholders and the

development team without generating conflicts

• you have presentation skills: you will do product demos, requirements

presentations, reports to management etc.

• you are responsible, assertive, solution oriented, driven and inspiring, you will be an example for the development team
• open to travel

Languages:

• English (very good reading and writing)
• French can be a plus

Benefits:
Excellent career opportunity with a professional development path in a
multinational environment, challenging projects with high safety requirements
training opportunities, attractive salary, medical care, life insurance, restaurant
tickets, sports programs, short Friday.
Thank you for your interest in Hitachi Rail. If your application is of interest, we will be in contact. Please do not hesitate to discover more about us and our latest jobs at
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