Technology Product Owner in Chilworth

Join us and you’ll have an opportunity to make an impact and be part of an organisation committed to driving sustainable outcomes. At OS, we use location data and intelligence to help customers build more resilient societies, preserve the environment, foster healthier, happier spaces that people want to live in, and support the delivery of improved public services and critical infrastructure.

We’re on the hunt for a passionate Product Owner to join our Technology Department. You’ll be guiding one or more delivery teams within the Distributing Service. As Product Owner, you’ll be leading a passionate team of developers and testers to shape the future of our data products and visualisation platforms, ensuring our customers’ needs and expectations are met. You’ll use your analysis skills and experience to assess the root cause of issues, and user asks, and to produce supporting documentation.

Our Technology Product Owner will play a pivotal role in your product’s success. Your role will not only be to help discover and define the requirements we need to ensure our solutions are fit for purpose but also to fully support the engineering teams to ensure the requirements are delivered on time. You’ll have a knack for delivering customer requirements swiftly and to a high standard. You’ll be experienced in leading development teams and comfortable with technical concepts and discussions, as well as communicating with business stakeholders, project managers, architects, and data specialists. You’ll need to be adept at balancing customer requirements, non-functional requirements, and technical debt.

Your role will involve working closely with the Service Leadership Team to shape the product roadmap, aligning with the product vision and capability/service roadmap. You’ll also break down high-level requirements into user stories to build and maintain the development backlogs. We’re looking for someone who is fully conversant with Agile delivery methodologies and is confident leading team ceremonies.

Here is a snapshot of the technologies that we use: Azure Cloud Technologies, React, Azure DevOps, Powershell, YAML Pipelines, Esri ArcGIS, FME, QGIS.

As a Product Owner, you will:

• Steer one or more product development teams
• Provide expert planning and prioritisation, maintaining a focus on customer outcomes within the wider scope of the product vision and roadmap
• Engage with customers and stakeholders to understand customer needs, and to gather user requirements and feedback
• Analyse and translate high-level business requirements into user stories with clear value and purpose, and collaborate with Engineers to ensure the development backlogs are refined and prioritised
• Lead Agile ceremonies including sprint planning and backlog refinement meetings, and contribute to sprint demos
• Identify improvements to processes to drive effectiveness and efficiency through technology development
• Regularly engage with stakeholders to ensure expectations are managed, risks and issues are communicated, managed and mitigated and to communicate delivery team progress

We’re looking for an individual that can demonstrate skills and experience in:

• Backlog management and prioritisation, preferably in Azure DevOps
• Leading efficient and effective meetings
• Balancing multiple priorities and dealing with ambiguity
• Building and maintaining strong relationships, collaborating with peers
• Stakeholder management
• Clear and concise communication and presentation skills
• Business analysis, including requirements gathering and producing technical documentation

For this role, we’re specifically looking for additional skills and knowledge in:

• Website and Web Application development
• Web Usability and Web Accessibility principles
• Web application performance, security and compliance
• High-level knowledge of React, TypeScript, Java, Azure cloud services, Azure DevOps
• Knowledge/understanding of working within a scalable micro-services web application environment.

While a Product Owner Certification and experience with data platforms would be beneficial, they are not essential. We value the right behaviours and passion over ticking every box. If you’re eager to learn and grow with us, we’d love to hear from you.

We may require the successful candidate to be SC cleared.

We want you to love what you do. That is why our benefits package rewards a job well done. Salary – £49,986 - £58,318 (dependent on experience). Performance related bonus up to 10%. A competitive pension scheme (OS contributes up to 12.07%). 28 days annual leave in addition to bank holidays on joining, increasing by one day per year, to a maximum of 5 years. Enhanced family leave, including up to 12 weeks paid partner (paternity) leave. Free subscription to OS Maps. Access to online learning platforms. Coaching and Mentoring schemes. Plus, a suite of excellent additional perks and benefits.

At OS, we believe looking after your health and wellbeing means more than posters and events. We empower you to manage your work and life the way you need it by offering things like an extra days’ leave for each year you work, up to 33 days, Employee Assistance Programme, Hybrid working, Free onsite parking at our modern HQ in Southampton, Eyecare Vouchers, OS Explorers Nursery discount, Cycle to Work scheme.

We believe that as a company we should give back wherever we can, so we give you 1 day a year to volunteer for charities that are important to you, as well as offering a match funding scheme.

We embrace a hybrid working model at OS and understand there is no one size fits all in relation to how we work. We have a fantastic HQ in Southampton, Hampshire where you will be based and required to spend 2-3 days a week at OSHQ.

OS conducts pre-employment checks for anyone made an offer of employment, including identity, right to work, employment history and criminal record checks. Some of our roles may require additional security vetting. We will advise candidates during the recruitment process if additional vetting may be required for that specific role.

We are happy to consider any reasonable adjustments that people may need during the recruitment process, and you will be asked whether you require any during the application process.

Research indicates that women, individuals with disabilities, LGBTQ+ community members, neurodiverse individuals, and people from ethnic minority backgrounds often hesitate to apply for jobs unless they meet every single qualification. At Ordnance Survey, we are dedicated to fostering a diverse, inclusive, and genuine workplace where everyone can thrive. If you’re enthusiastic about this role but your experience doesn’t perfectly match every qualification in the job description, we encourage you to apply anyway. You might be the ideal candidate for this or other roles within Ordnance Survey.