▷ [Immediate Start] Service Owner

The ideal candidate should possess the following technical skills:

- Experienced professional who is intrigued by what data is and passionate about the value it can bring.

- Solid practical skills and experience in data platform delivery on Azure, AWS, and/or GCP technologies.

- Solid understanding of data governance and program governance in a large corporate setting.

- You are a go-getter who likes to make things happen.

- An open mindset to feedback and new ideas with an ability to think creatively and thrive in a fast-paced, dynamic, and sometimes ambiguous work environment.

- Ability to multi-task with conflicting priorities.

- Ability to manage multiple scrum teams, programs and initiatives in parallel.

- Ability to logically work using a structured approach to prioritise initiatives across multiple stakeholders.

- You take a collaborative approach to work and have excellent stakeholder management skills.

- Solid experience in an Agile environment, leading distributed teams and working with people covering a diverse range of styles, personalities, skills, and experiences.

- Experience with JIRA and Confluence.

- Exposure (or a genuine interest) in data technologies.

- Familiarity and keen interest in the latest developments in the world of data and AI.

What You Will Be Doing

- Educate business stakeholders to understand strategy and objectives to build and align on a product roadmap that transforms the strategy into an actionable and outcomes-based plan.

- Responsible for end-to-end delivery defined by a clear roadmap and track and report on success metrics.

- Work within the scrum team to apply product vision and a sense of purpose and continuously deploy incremental customer value.

- Assist in the translation of business requirements into value-driven features and stories.

- Track key organisational and business outcomes / value, and health metrics.

- Action release and sprint goals, prioritising the product backlog while focusing on delivering the maximum value aligned with product strategy.

- Work closely with the Scrum Master to optimise team outputs and coach and mentor other members of the broader team.

- Provide hands‑on SME in the Service Owner and Product Owner domain.

Required Professional and Technical Expertise

- Minimum of 10+ years of experience as a project manager, iteration manager or scrum master in IT Consulting or other technology business units across the industry

- Minimum of 3+ years of project management experience in data initiatives such as data Governance, modernisation, migration, governance, reporting, analytics and data science

- Diverse practical experience in project delivery frameworks such as Scaled Agile, Distributed Agile, Agile Sprints, Kanban, Waterfall etc

- Skills include Project Planning, Budgeting, Performance Management, Scheduling, Staffing, PM Methods, Performance Management, Scope Management, Contractual Deliverables, Change Control and Risk Management

- Solid Understanding of various data professional roles and responsibilities

- Understanding of concepts of business‑critical design, services sensitive to performance SLAs with high availability, fault‑tolerance, automatic fail‑over and geographical redundancy

- Experience delivering projects based on Cloud Platform such as Azure, AWS, GCP and IBM and other modern data platforms

- Understanding of containerisation, virtualisation, infrastructure and networking

- Understanding of software development life cycle and methodologies

- Experience in presenting to and influencing stakeholders and senior managers

- Experience in Banking is required.

- Team leadership and people manager experience

- Degree in Computer Science, Information Technology or related Engineering courses

- One or more industry‑recognised technology or project delivery certifications or badges

Desired Attributes and Skills

The specialist should be skilled in Leading project teams in delivering solutions according to project charter or client project contracts for Data initiatives. Skills include Project Planning, Budgeting, Performance Management, Scheduling, Staffing, PM Methods, Performance Management, Scope Management, Contractual Deliverables, Change Control and Risk Management

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