Product Owner (TMS project - Transportation Business)

Product Owner (TMS project - Transportation Business)

The people we all rely on to make the world go round – they rely on Thales.  Thales rely on its employees to invent the future: right here, right now.

Present in Romania for over 40 years, Thales is expanding its presence in the country by growing its Digital capabilities and by developing a Group Engineering Competence Centre (ECC). Operating from Bucharest, Thales delivers solutions in a number of core businesses, from ground transportation, space and defence, to security and aeronautics.
Several professional opportunities have arisen. If you are looking for the solidity of a Global Group that is at the forefront of innovation, but with the agility of a human structure that tailors to the personal development of its employees and allows opportunities for evolution in an international environment, then this is the place for you!

As a Product Owner, you are responsible to create and maintain the product requirements of Human Machine Interface and Traffic Management product lines in the railway domain.

You will interact with many stakeholders: architects and business analysts at solution level, product design authorities, product line managers and customer representatives.

All products are part of product lines, product concern will continue across many customer projects and you must incorporate a long term vision in any decision.

You will present the requirements to the development team and you will be there in the daily work to clarify what is to be done and to facilitate and participate in design activities.

You will do part of the product planning and you will support the Project Manager in overall planning, resource management and estimation.

Outside customer projects, you will be involved in design and estimation of offerings and, at any time, in activities related to long term product strategy.

Professional competencies

Qualification

• 5 years of work experience in software engineering

• 3 years of work experience in requirements engineering

• work experience in a mission critical or safety critical domain

Must have

• Work experience / familiarity with Scrum and the Scrum Product Owner role

• Product engineering skills

• Experienced in writing requirements

- you can write formal specification (complete structured product specification in appropriate technical language)

- you can write user stories, use cases, acceptance criteria

- you can create use case models and story mappings

familiar with product line engineering practices (production plan, strategic reuse, core assets, product scope, variation points and variability analysis)

• Configuration management (you can work with versions, branches, you can manage the complexity of reintegrating branches

• Work experience with project management concerns

- you can consolidate estimations

- you can manage risk

- you can do planning

- you can do resource management

• Work experience in both waterfall and iterative software development processes

• Knowledge of the following (or similar) tools: DOORS, JIRA

• English language fluency and proficiency: all communication and documentation is done in English

Non-technical skills

• you have a sharp personality: organized, express yourself clearly, able to prioritize

• you are empathic: you can get the best from stakeholders and the development team without generating conflicts

• you have presentation skills: you will do product demos, requirements presentations, reports to management etc.

• you are responsible, driven and inspiring, you will be an example for the development team

Would be a plus

• experience in / domain knowledge of traffic management or railway signaling

• previous software engineering experience (development, testing, architecture) at user interface level;

• familiar with programming languages, UI frameworks, UI architectures, enterprise integration architectures;

• ability to consider usability, human factors and ergonomics in product design

• familiar with CENELEC standard for software development;

• you’ve heard about quality and process management; for example about CMMI-DEV or ISO 9001.

Benefits

Excellent career opportunity with a professional development path in a multinational environment, challenging projects with high safety requirements training opportunities, attractive salary, medical care, restaurant tickets, sports programs, work from home, etc.

At Thales we provide CAREERS and not only jobs. With Thales employing 80,000 employees in 68 countries our mobility policy enables thousands of employees each year to develop their careers at home and abroad, in their existing areas of expertise or by branching out into new fields. Together we believe that embracing flexibility is a smarter way of working. Great journeys start here.

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