As a Product Lead at Kainos, you will play a lead role across one or more multi-disciplinary agile delivery teams. You will own the end-to-end backlog for aproduct, responsible for its overall quality and maturity. You will lead the businessanalysts and product consultants on your project, ensuring that the processesfor requirements-gathering and prioritisation are operating effectively.
You will work with delivery managers and solution architects to shape the approachfor the work you and the wider team undertakes. You proactively seek commercialopportunities and take a lead role in product-level commercial negotiations.
You will actively support the engagement with product or programme-level businessstakeholders, gaining their buy-in and managing their expectations. You will act as avisible leader within the consulting capability, owning the delivery of consultinginitiatives. You’ll also manage, coach and develop a small number of staff, with afocus on managing employee performance.
Minimum requirements:
- Experience in bespoke software delivery, operating as a part of an agileteam working for an external customer (experience in a client-facing role ina consulting environment is a must-have).
- Healthcare or Public sector experience.
- Responsible for owning the end-to-end product backlog and takingresponsibility for story quality and maturity.
- Experience in shaping the approach taken in a range of phases of thesoftware development lifecycle – such as analysis, acceptance, launch andlive ops. Responsible for ensuring that requirements-gathering, refinementand prioritisation processes are effective.
- Experience devising goal-oriented roadmaps, gaining buy-in fromstakeholders and instilling a focus on MVP. Experience leading thecollaborative breakdown of goals into small pieces of value-delivering work.
- Experience leading product teams, ensuring the product vision and goalsare understood so that the scope is managed by the team effectively.
- Proven ability to lead, providing direction and promoting good productmanagement practices across one or more agile teams.
- Experience coaching and mentoring clients and colleagues in agile techniques and best practices.
- Proven ability of strong team management skills, including effectively managing, mentoring and coaching members of your team and wider community is important.
- Strong commercial awareness and active participation in revenue or sales- generating activity.
- Actively supports and builds relationships with product and programme-level business stakeholders.
- Facilitates workshops with senior stakeholders, negotiating conflicting viewpoints and achieving buy-in for new initiatives.
- Experience implementing appropriate tools/standards/techniques for business analysis and requirements gathering, securing appropriate buy-in from our internal teams and the client.
- Responsible for working with delivery leads and solution architects to manage scope within commercial constraints, such as cost restrictions or project deadlines.
- Demonstrate a good understanding of relevant technologies and architecture concepts.
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