Technical Product Owner

Emirates Airlines - Other locations; Dubai; On-site; AED 120,000 - 200,000; Full time

Job summary

A global airline company in Dubai is looking for a Product Owner to lead data-driven projects, ensuring effective collaboration among teams while capturing metrics for success. This role requires 5+ years in IT and experience in product management. The successful candidate will contribute to the organization’s digital transformation, ensuring compliance with data guidelines and fostering innovation. Enjoy a competitive tax-free salary alongside benefits unique to the airline industry, such as travel discounts.

Benefits

Tax-free salary

Travel benefits

Discounts on flights and hotels

Qualifications

• 5+ years experience in Information Technology.
• 2+ years practical experience as a Product Owner/Manager.

Responsibilities

• Be responsible for story content, acceptance criteria, and end story sign off.
• Ensure Technical Debt and Non-functional requirements are captured.
• Define metrics to measure success and performance.

Skills

Operations Research

Marketing Science

Information Systems

e-Commerce

Customer-centric mindset

Analytical and Insight-driven capabilities

Education

Completed Degree or Honours (12+3 or equivalent)

Tools

Product Management tools

Job description

Job Purpose

At Emirates Group our Analytics Centre of Excellence (ACoE) is a centralised unit that provides data and analytics support to Emirates Group businesses. This allows our businesses to make better decisions by using data and analytics to understand our customers, operations, and markets. The ACoE is an essential part of Emirates Group's digital transformation strategy. The unit is helping Emirates Group to become a more data-driven organization and to make better decisions by using data and analytics.

In this role, you will:

• Be 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.
• Ensure Technical Debt and Non-functional requirements are capture, refine, and prioritise across all sprints.
• Capture additional BAU, Ceremony, and Spike activities, and incorporate 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.
• Attend and contribute to key Product Management meetings, in particular PI Planning.
• Define 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.
• Participate 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.
• Work 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.
• Own data and information products and ensure compliance with Enterprise Data and Analytics strategic guidelines and architecture patterns.
• Create and maintain a consistent approach towards the relevant business metadata documentation for the assigned domain which includes information matrix, entity definitions, entity relationships, KPI documentation, business metadata management, data dictionaries and user guides.

Qualification

To be considered for this role, you must meet the below requirements:

• Qualifications: Completed Degree or Honours (12+3 or equivalent)
• Experience: 5+ years experience in Information Technology

Knowledge & Skills

• 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.
• 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.
• Demonstrated technical or domain expertise, utilising a depth and breadth of knowledge and practical experience within the specific domain or technical area. Stays up to date with regulatory and other changes in the technical area, and understands how they apply to the Emirates group.
• 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.
• Must have a good understanding of respective transaction systems as a source for data products as well as relevant business processes.
• Data and KPIs commonly used in airline and ground handling industry.
• Modern Data Architecture and associated Technologies.
• Analytical and Insight driven capabilities and advanced analytical skills.
• Business Intelligence applications and design principles.
• Must have a good understanding of respective transaction systems as a source for data products as well as relevant business processes.

At Emirates, we're committed to providing our employees with opportunities to grow and develop in their careers. So if you're looking for a challenging and rewarding opportunity, apply today and join our team!

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. Find out what it’s like to live and work in our fast-paced, cosmopolitan home city in the Dubai Lifestyle section of our website www.emirates.com/careers