Scrum Product Owner

For our client, a Global leader in Industrial Automation solutions, running software development center in Katowice we are looking for Scrum Product Owner.

Product Owner will join our client's embedded software development team, counting over 80 headcounts and still growing. The team is divided into Scrum teams (currently 10). Being a part of large embedded software development centre of Global company the department is resposible for development of communication modules for industrial automation installations: ethernet bridges, ethernet adapters, communication part in industrial drivers. The company is going strongly towards security direction and they are introducing technologies like TLS, DTLS to their products. Katowice centre holds the status of both design and implementation centre, which means that all decisions connected to components architecture are made locally. The team is working on new generation of devices, most of the time new code is developed, and there are not so many maintenance tasks. Whole centre works in SAFe (Scalable Agile Framework). The teams work according to Scrum methodology (daily stand-ups, sprints every 3 weeks, PI's every 3 months, retrospectives). Tests are predominately automated, they have their own test lab, test automation system is written in Python. 80% of maintained code has been developed locally in last 6 years. There is some legacy code connected with the platform, developed in US, predominately not older than 10 years. Technical debt is minimal.

One will play the Product Owner's role in Scrum teams liaising between the business (stakeholders in USA) and software teams; collecting requirements, passing them on to Scrum team and giving feedback back to the business, representing the business towards software team and software team towards the business. One is reporting to Team Lead who reports to Software Development Manager. The role requires communications with engineers based in other software & hardware development centers (USA, Asia).

- a minimum of 3 years of experience in collecting the requirements on client facing role
- experience with Agile/Scrum methodologies
- understanding of industrial automation, embedded software (nice to have)
- very good command of English

- work in a design centre where all decisions about architecture are made locally
- work in an international product company, developing own hardware, software and platform
- work on new generation of products
- work in highly predictive, very standatized and regulated environment, working according to SAFe/Scrum routine
- work in very fast growing centre in terms of headcount
- work in a new and very modern office space with very well equiped labs