Technical Product Owner - Software Applications

Thales; Crawley; On-site; GBP 65,000 - 95,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Performance-related bonus

Half day every Friday (13:00)

28 days annual leave (+ bank holidays)

Job summary

Thales is seeking a Technical Product Owner to drive the Engineering Environments initiatives in the UK. You will work within an agile development team and the Technical Leadership group to maximise value and serve internal customers.

You will act as the interface between development, Portfolio Product Owner and end users, while serving as Technical Authority for your area. Key responsibilities include shaping feature delivery, prioritising the backlog, and ensuring alignment with overall team

Qualifications

• Strong understanding of modern software development practices and tooling.
• Experience aligning engineering outcomes with business objectives.
• Ability to define and implement service offerings for architected environments.

Responsibilities

• Represents engineering customers/users of the Engineering Environments.
• Specifies needs, validates acceptance criteria and approves features.
• Defines the feature development order with Portfolio Product Owner and other Product Owners.
• Takes decisions on direction of solutions for their team.
• Accounts for the Product Backlog content and priorities.
• Collects feedback from end users and stakeholders during iteration reviews.

Skills

DevSecOps

Agile

CI/CD

TDD

BDD

XP

Lean

Tools

Kubernetes

Containers

GitOps

Jira

Bitbucket

Confluence

Artifactory/XRay

Job description

Thales is a global technology leader with more than 83,000 employees on five continents. With over 7,500 people in the UK, operating across defence, space, aerospace, and digital security, we help build a future we can all trust. Thales supports the security and stability of our nation by providing extraordinary technology to our customers, as well as delivering social value to the UK with our products and services.

Thales is transforming the way in which we deliver our tools to engineers. In this role you will be helping to build the next generation of Engineering Environments in the UK using modern deployment methods on a cloud based platform.

As a Technical Product Owner, you will work both as part of an agile development team and as part of our Technical Leadership team. You will maximise the value of the products delivered by the development / deployment team and are in charge of satisfying the needs of the internal customers. You will also act as the primary interface between the development team, the Portfolio Product Owner and the end users of the engineering environments. You will also act as the Technical Authority/Architect for your specific area.

Key responsibilities:

• Represents the engineering customers/users of the Engineering Environments.
• Specifies the needs, validates the acceptance criteria and approves the completed features.
• Defines the order in which the features for their team will be developed and works with the Portfolio Product Owner and other Product Owners to ensure that this fits with the objectives for the overall team.
• Takes important decisions concerning the direction the solutions for their team.
• Is accountable for the Product Backlog for their team in terms of content and priorities.
• Collects feedback from end users and other stakeholders during iteration reviews

Right for this role?

Ideally you'll have a software or systems engineering background in order to understand and credibly represent & promote best practice ways of working and tooled up processes. One of these roles will champion the non-LEWIS applications (old and new, and how we archive programme work securely), and the other will be more cloud software development environment biased.

We recruit at many levels so we would be very interested to hear from you regardless of your length of experience. However, the following would be very beneficial:

• Thorough understanding of, and experience of applying, the current best practices for software development including: DevSecOps, Agile, CI/CD, TDD, BDD, XP and Lean.
• Understanding of both cloud and secure development environments to be able to architect and improve both existing and new bespoke environments.
• Ability to define and implement a suite of service offerings to support their architected development environments including required tooling, infrastructure, and internal services.
• Good understanding of cloud and enabling technologies and practices including Kubernetes, Containers, GitOps.

Experience in some or all of the following software applications is a plus:

• Attlassian Suite (Jira, Bitbucket, Confluence)
• Jfrog Platform (Artifactory/XRay)
• GitLab
• Black Duck
• Performance-related bonus
• Half day every Friday, usually finishing around 13:00
• 28 days annual leave (plus bank holidays) with opportunity to buy up to 40 hours/year (pro rata)
• 24 hours volunteering paid for
• Life cover
• 24/7 Employee Assistance Program and access to mental wellbeing app
• Employee discount shopping schemes on major brands and retailers

Security Clearance Requirement:

Due to the nature of the work that we do at Thales, many of our roles are subject to security restrictions. This role requires you to be a UK National and achieve Security Clearance (SC) without any caveats. It would be advantageous if currently held, however, if not currently held, it is a requirement that the successful applicant undergo, achieve, and maintain SC Clearance prior to commencing employment. If approved by the MOD, a dual national from a non-ITAR country may be considered.

To be eligible for full SC, you generally need to have resided in the UK for the last 5 years. In some circumstances, a minimum of 3 years’ residence in the UK over the last 5 years may be accepted, with additional overseas checks.

Please visit the UKSV website for further guidance:

https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/united-kingdom-security-vetting-clearance-levels/national-security-vetting-clearance-levels.