IT Product Owner

Title:

IT Product Owner

KBR is a global provider of differentiated, professional services and technologies delivered across a wide government, defense and industrial base. Drawing from its rich 100-year history and culture of innovation and mission focus, KBR creates sustainable value by combining engineering, technical and scientific expertise with its full life cycle capabilities to help our clients meet their most pressing challenges today and into the future.

KBR employs approximately 29,000 people worldwide (including our joint ventures), with customers in more than 80 countries, and operations in 40 countries, across two synergistic global businesses.

KBR is looking for an IT Software Development Product Owner to work in our Leatherhead office.

DUTIES AND RESPONSIBILITIES:

This role acts as a liaison between IT development groups and business units for the development and implementation of new systems and enhancement of current systems.

• Evaluates new applications, system requirements, developments in field of expertise, and evolving business needs to recommend appropriate solutions and alternatives.
• Under general direction, uses specialized knowledge or skills to solve complex and unique problems, or direct the daily activities of a business, technical support, or functional support team.
• Establishes priorities for the completion of assigned tasks. Uses judgment to interpret internal and external issues and develop best practices.
• May direct resources, prioritize tasks, and provide guidance to less experienced team members. Relies upon experience, interpersonal skills, and broad knowledge of field to ensure task completion in compliance with policies, procedures, and business strategy.
• Serve as an agile product owner ensuring our software development projects align with customer needs and deliver maximum value while adhering to agile scrum methodologies.
• Drive analysis, validation, and verification to determine what data is required to support business needs, where it is created, read, updated, and deleted and the quality criteria associated with it.
• Lead in the coordination of effort with staff, vendors, and customers to understand the business requirement to design the data architecture, solutions, and processes.
• Support the definition of road maps and portfolios of change that reflect business strategy and performance objectives.
• Lead on the development of processes including models (conceptual, logical, and physical).
• Delivery of customized reports and recommendations to support on-going business decisions and customer reporting requirements.
• Establish strong relationships with teams across the business.

Required Education and Experience:

• Bachelor’s Degree in a relevant discipline or area with a relevant number of years’ work experience as a Business Analyst or Project Manager.
• Scrum Product Owner certified preferred.
• Sound judgement, attention to detail, accuracy, and follow-through on actions including the flexibility to perform in an ever-changing work environment.
• The ability to communicate complex ideas in a clear, concise manner (verbal and written) across functional and technical departments.
• Possess the capacity to work on multiple tasks at any one time, handling conflicting demands, prioritize workload and effectively delegate while maintaining high quality standards. Ability to work across swim lanes and deliver results.
• Expertise in rapidly comprehending the functions and capabilities of new technologies.
• Stakeholder management skills to facilitate change delivery in a busy working environment with competing day-to-day priorities. High emotional intelligence and solid interpersonal and relationship building skills.

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