Senior Product Owner - Technology Development Team


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Transport for London

Listed on

30th September 2022

Location

London

Salary/Rate

Circa £55,000 + excellent benefits

Salary Notes

Circa £55,000 + excellent benefits

Type

Permanent

Start Date

ASAP

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Put customers and users at the heart of technological transformation

By 2030, 10 million people will live in London. Millions more will continue to visit. Data and technology will play a key role in keeping people and the city moving.  At TfL, we're applying a whole range of technological innovations to drive forward the management of transport and infrastructure and make it fit for the future.

Fresh from our successful launch of Contactless ticketing, our in-house technology development teams are now responsible for building and enhancing the online, revenue and corporate systems of the future, ensuring that Every Journey Matters.

As Senior Product Owner within the Technology Development team, you'll translate complex business requirements into user stories that our Agile development team can implement efficiently and in an impactful way. Responsible for the creation and maintenance of our product backlog, you'll enable the delivery of high-quality software, ensuring backlogs are well maintained and prioritised, and acting as a bridge between the Agile development team and our business partners. 

You'll also ensure the quality and maintenance of our internally developed software meets the needs of TfL and our customers.

As part of your role, you'll be expected to build strong, collaborative working relationships with a variety of stakeholders around the business, allowing you to influence decision-making based on business priorities and schedules, in addition to providing positive and constructive feedback to others where necessary.

As Senior Product Owner you'll specialise in one of the following product areas:

Online applications, such as customer portals, apps, mobility platforms etc.

Revenue applications responsible for the processing of Oyster and Contactless transactions

Corporate applications, such as CRM tools, asset management and contact centre systems etc.

You'll be experienced in the following:

Working as a as a Product Manager or Product Owner role in an agile development team.

Working in a dynamic environment, handling multiple tasks, ensuring quality products are delivered on time and to budget.

Extensive understanding of requirements elicitation, analysis, documentation, and validation.

Stakeholder engagement: enthusing people, maintaining trust and supporting groups to ensure continued participation over time.

Building relationships with, and influencing, a range of people at all levels within and outside the organisation.

Strong knowledge of customer facing and internal infrastructure and technology trends, particularly those relating to public transport operations

In addition to being skilled in:

Knowledge of an aspect of the public transport operating business (both operational and non-operational) is desirable.

Thorough understanding of Scrum Agile and Kanban development principles.

Detailed working knowledge of systems development and implementation.

Managing and mitigating system risks.

Commercial awareness, ensuring systems development is aligned with contractual agreements.

Familiarity with using ADO or Jira as an agile planning and tracking tool is desirable.

It would be helpful to have a degree or equivalent level qualification in a relevant technology/computer science subject.

If you think this sounds like the role for you, please click the APPLY button.

If you're successful in your application, you'll be joining a team of brilliant people from all walks of life. In return for your skills and expertise, we offer an excellent benefits package which includes:

Final salary pension scheme

Flexible working with a great work/life balance

Free travel for you on the TfL network

A 75% discount on National Rail Season Ticket and interest free loan

30 days annual leave plus public and bank holidays

Private healthcare discounted scheme (optional)

Tax-efficient childcare payments

Tax-efficient cycle-to-work programme

Retail, health, leisure, and travel offers

Discounted Eurostar travel

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