Staff Technical Product Owner

Job Description SummaryResponsible for working in lock-step with application or domain leaders acting as a senior technical product manager to create a clear strategic direction that will be delivered by the product development team. You will work with the team and deliver a clear and descriptive set of requirements to enable the delivery of product features and functionality. Your priority is seamless integration and alignment of perspectives from a broad set of stakeholders including but not limited to: Customers, Process Owners, Enterprise Architects, Application Managers, Development teams and Technical Architects.
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Job Description

Roles and Responsibilities

Essential Responsibilities:

Your Day at GE:

• Interact with Product Managers, customers and stakeholders in fine tuning product backlog for the engineering teams.
• Collaborate with Product Managers/TPMs to decompose features into consumable user stories.
• Prioritize continuously in accordance with the understanding and validation of customer problems and needs.
• Work with cross-functional teams to deliver features and products.
• Show increasing understanding of the technology stack and its impact on the final product.
• Routinely collaborate with UX Design to know customers and understand behaviours.
• Conduct customer and stakeholder interviews and elaborates on personas.
• Conduct Formative and Summative sessions.
• Demonstrate ability to influence customers and product managers through persuasion and influencing.
• Collaborate with SM & PMO for the release and sprint backlogs short-term roadmap for MVPs and quarterly releases.
• Own and manage the backlog; continuously order and prioritize to ensure that prioritized backlog exists for at least 2-3 sprints ahead.
• Own and write all User Stories and Acceptance Criteria for team.
• Provide Solution to challenges from customer point of view.
• Work on creating futuristic backlog for workflows and present ideas to Engineering Leaders
• Work with Engineering teams and support in POCs
• Engage frequently with the development team; facilitate discussions, provide clarification, story acceptance and refinement, testing and validation; contribute to design activities and decisions.
• Own demo setup and demo functionalities of sprint work.
• Translate unstructured or ambiguous work requests into actionable user stories and work unit.
• Partner with Service Owners/ Development Managers to ensure healthy development process.
• Apply Agile Methodologies and ensure ownership of product backlog.
• Use Requirements Engineering techniques and tools to ensure all scenarios get covered.
• Get involved in Learning activities and business level activities.
• File IP disclosures

Qualifications / Requirements

• Bachelor’s Degree in Computer Science or in “STEM” Majors (Science, Technology, Engineering and Math)

Technical Expertise:

• Strong knowledge of software design and coding principles

• Experience working in an Agile environment

• Familiarity with versatile implementation options

• Demonstrates knowledge on technical topics, such as caching, APIs, data transfer, scalability, and security

• Experience on AWS or any other cloud platform is desired
• Experience in Data Analytics project is desired

Business Acumen:

• Demonstrates the initiative to explore alternate technology and approaches to solving problems

• Skilled in breaking down problems, documenting problem statements and estimating efforts

• Has the ability to analyse impact of technology choices

• Skilled in negotiation to align stakeholders and communicate a single synthesized perspective to the scrum team. Balances value propositions for competing stakeholders.

• Demonstrates knowledge of the competitive environment

• Demonstrates knowledge of technologies in the market to help make buy vs build recommendations, scope MVPs, and to drive market timing decisions

Leadership:

• Influences through others; builds direct and "behind the scenes" support for

ideas. Pre-emptively sees downstream consequences and effectively tailors

influencing strategy to support a positive outcome.

• Able to verbalize what is behind decisions and downstream implications.

Continuously reflecting on success and failures to improve performance and decision-making.

• Understands when change is needed. Participates in technical strategy

planning.

Personal Attributes:

• Able to effectively direct and mentor others in critical thinking skills.

Proactively engages with cross-functional teams to resolve issues and design

solutions using critical thinking and analysis skills and best practices. Finds

important patterns in seemingly unrelated information.

• Influences and energizes other toward the common vision and goal. Maintains

excitement for a process and drives to new directions of meeting the goal even

when odds and setbacks render one path impassable.

• Innovates and integrates new processes and/or technology to significantly add

value to GE. Identifies how the cost of change weighs against the benefits and

advises accordingly. Proactively learns new solutions and processes to ad

dress seemingly unanswerable problems.

Inclusion and Diversity

GE Healthcare is an Equal Opportunity Employer where inclusion matters. Employment decisions are made without regard to race, color, religion, national or ethnic origin, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, age, disability, protected veteran status or other characteristics protected by law.

We expect all employees to live and breathe our behaviors: to act with humility and build trust; lead with transparency; deliver with focus, and drive ownership – always with unyielding integrity.

Our total rewards are designed to unlock your ambition by giving you the boost and flexibility you need to turn your ideas into world-changing realities. Our salary and benefits are everything you’d expect from an organization with global strength and scale, and you’ll be surrounded by career opportunities in a culture that fosters care, collaboration and support.

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