Technical Product Owner- Software Engineering Platforms
Category:
Project Management & Agile
Do you thrive in a collaborative environment and enjoy improving operational stability? Would you like to contribute to building software developer platforms based on Open-Source software?
We are looking for a Technical Product Owner to join our team in the Software Engineering Platforms department at Novo Nordisk. Apply today!
Behind the title
As a Technical Product Owner at Novo Nordisk, you will be working on the Heimdall plat-form our internal software engineering platform, supporting multiple development teams across business areas. You will be responsible for preparing and driving the product vision, roadmap, backlog stakeholder management and prioritization.
Additionally, your responsibilities include:
- Being the Product Owner of one or more teams of highly technical platform engi-neers responsible for products in Heimdall platform. This could be our Observabil-ity platform based on Grafana and Open Telemetry. Another product is our Cross plane based control plane to orchestrate applications and infrastructure.
- Driving development of platform features and capabilities with engineering teams from the business
- Ensuring that your backlog is up to date with input from System Architects and LoB stakeholders
- Managing a well-structured backlog that enables developers to easily navigate and consume a prioritized backlog with clear Definitions of Ready (DoR) and Defi-nitions of Done (DoD).
- Collaborating with stakeholders to understand key drivers for deliveries to enable ongoing prioritization and content elaboration
- Clarifying and coordinating dependencies with other Product Owners, Product Man-agement, external stakeholders, and development teams
- Driving and contributing to change management related to new technologies & practices for cloud native software engineering
- Facilitating an involving and constructive dialogue with senior stakeholders to en-sure needed resources are available
Which competencies to bring?
To succeed in this role, we expect you tick most of the following:
- At least 5+ years of software development experience, with strong working exper-tise building large complex back-end systems with Docker, Kubernetes, C#, .NET, Go
- Strong experience being a Product Owner, with great skills in managing stakehold-ers, backlogs and building product roadmap.
- Experience in driving adoption and communicating platform value in collaboration with UX
- Experienced driving highly technical development teams. Bridging the business needs, the technical requirements, and the scalability to ensure we prioritize and develop the right things.
- Previous hands-on experience with Azure Cloud and/or AWS Cloud, especially around PaaS/SaaS service offering and Containers as a Service (CaaS)
- Ability to set direction and communicate a compelling purpose and vision with passion and urgency
- Previous experience with contributing to Open-Source Software would be beneficial
- Experience with backlog management in Azure DevOps
Personally, we expect you to be proactive, highly collaborative, and capable of influencing stakeholders at all levels of the organization. We are looking for an open, transparent, and honest team player, ready to act as role model and empower others to take action
The team waiting for you
Software Engineering Platforms (SEP) is part of the Digital, Data & IT (DD&IT) department where we partner with the business to support digital transformation and innovation in all parts of the Novo Nordisk value chain. Our vision is to accelerate software development by taking ownership in developing and delivering software development platforms, tools, processes, and advisory services.
We strive to make software development teams more effective and efficient, by focusing three areas:
- Scaling software development capability
- Increasing focus on building valuable code
- Enabling faster releases & time to market
Our current team consists of a very diverse pool of talent, with colleagues from various backgrounds and 11 different nationalities – something we at SEP are very proud of.
Joining Novo Nordisk
Novo Nordisk is a global healthcare company headquartered in Denmark. For more than 100 years, we have been driving change to defeat diabetes and other serious chronic diseases. As a result, our treatments today benefit millions of people living with diabetes, obesity, and rare blood and endocrine diseases.We are proud of that. We are proud of our people too, and we employ more than 64,000 bright and diverse minds in 80 offices world-wide. With us, your bright mind and commitment help us change lives for people world-wide. In exchange, we offer you a seat in a rewarding and purpose-driven culture where your professional and personal development is highly valued.
That said, opportunities are many in Novo Nordisk.
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Who to contact
If you have any questions about the job, please do not hesitate to contact our Director of Product Management, Mesim Bajrami, at mbjm@novonordisk.com.
Deadline
10 November 2024.
Interviews will be conducted on an ongoing basis, so we encourage you to apply as soon as possible.
Feeling overwhelmed by job requirements and doubting if you're 100% qualified? Don't let it stop you! We encourage you to apply anyway, as your profile could surprise us and fit our needs better than you think. So take the leap and submit your application!
We commit to an inclusive recruitment process and equality of opportunity for all our job applicants.
At Novo Nordisk we recognize that it is no longer good enough to aspire to be the best company in the world. We need to aspire to be the best company for the world and we know that this is only possible with talented employees with diverse perspectives, backgrounds and cultures.We are therefore committed to creating an inclusive culture that celebrates the diversity of our employees, the patients we serve and communities we operate in. Together, we’re life changing.