Product Owner

THALES SOLUTIONS ASIA PTE. LTD.; Singapore; On-site; SGD 90,000 - 130,000; Full time

Job summary

THALES SOLUTIONS ASIA PTE. LTD. seeks an experienced Product Owner to lead backlog management for large-scale ATM system projects. You will act as the voice of the customer, align stakeholders, and ensure delivery meets safety and regulatory obligations.

You will bridge the teams with RTEs, support PI planning, and articulate acceptance criteria and non-functional requirements to deliver value with high quality. Strong facilitation and leadership are essential.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in computer science, Systems Engineering, or related field.
• At least 5 years' experience as a Product Owner, or equivalent role in mission-critical or safety-critical systems.
• Strong facilitation, coaching, and conflict resolution skills.

Responsibilities

• Backlog breakdown and ensuring the consistency of agile artefacts (stories, tasks) and coverage.
• Main point of contact for the team on functional or technical topics to drive alignment.
• Bridge between agile teams, coordinating with the RTEs.
• Collaborate with Architects, RTEs to define Program Increments and participate in the PI Planning.
• Prioritize backlog items and articulate acceptance criteria, non-functional requirements and quality attributes (security, performance).
• Work with users and customers to ensure backlog items deliver value and evolve the product via traceability matrices.
• Supporting the Team in Delivering Value; Foster built-in quality; Participate in demos and gather user feedback.

Skills

Backlog management

Agile coaching

Stakeholder liaison

Facilitation

Acceptance criteria

Leadership

Change management

Systems thinking

Technical literacy

Safety-critical standards

Education

Bachelor's degree in computer science or Systems Engineering

Tools

SAFe

Scrum

Job description

Whom We Are Looking For

We are seeking an experienced Product Owner to participate in delivering large-scale complex systems for the Air Traffic Management (ATM) domain. The successful candidate will serve as the 'voice of the customer' for the team where the incumbent will build and manage key relationships, synthesize information from sources, maintain business alignment in the team's backlog and communicate effectively with various stakeholders to ensure delivery with operational safety and regulatory obligations.

Responsibilities

• Responsible for backlog breakdown and ensuring the consistencies of the agile artefacts (e.g., stories, tasks) and its coverage.
• Acts as the main point of contact for the team on functional or technical topics, to drive alignment.
• Acts as the bridge between the agile teams, coordinating with the RTEs
• Collaborate with Architects, RTEs to define Program Increments and participate in the PI Planning.
• Managing and Prioritizing the Team BacklogSupport the team in story creation, breakdown of the backlog items (e.g., initiatives to epics to stories) with clearly articulated acceptance criteria, non-functional requirements and quality attributes (e.g., security, performance).Prioritize backlog items, create clarity for the team (e.g., collaborating with other stakeholders)Work with the users and customer to ensure that the backlog items deliver value, manage the evolution of the product via traceability matrices
• Supporting the Team in Delivering ValueFoster built-in qualityParticipating in team events and agile events (e.g., PI planning, ART events)Participate to demos and gathering feedback from the users

Requirements

• Bachelor's degree in computer science, Systems Engineering, or related field.
• At least 5 years' experience as a Product Owner, or equivalent role in mission-critical or safety-critical systems.
• Strong facilitation, coaching, and conflict resolution skills.

Essential / Desirable Traits

• Certified Scrum Master (CSM, PSM) and/or SAFe Scrum Master (SSM); SAFe RTE a plus.
• Knowledge of ED-109/DO-278A and safety-critical software standards desirable.
• Possess learning agility, flexibility and pro-activity
• Comfortable with agile teamwork and user engagement
• Strong leadership and change management skills
• Metrics-driven improvement mindset.
• Systems and technical literacy.

Align agile delivery with the following aviation standards (ED-109/DO-278a).