Job Description
SR. ENGINEER, PRODUCT OWNERSHIP
SAN DIEGO CA
12 MONTHS
DESCRIPTION:
Candidates must have :Product Ownership (PO). It's important that there is at least 3 5 years' experience working in a software R&D team, doing that kind of work.
NOTE: THIS POSITION IS FOR A PRODUCT OWNER ROLE. JOB DESCRIPTION BELOW
Position will start remote until Covid restrictions are lifted. Strong preference to local candidates. If not local please include current location and if willing to relocate. This is not a FT remote opportunity.
Collaborate with internal and external stakeholders to Perform user needs, requirements, and functional workflow analysis with appropriate internal and external stakeholders in advance of development team, and in partnership with them, to clearly and concisely define what should be developed and tested.
As a Product Owner, is accountable within the R&D group for functional feature definition. Ensures the solution is valid and valuable to stakeholders through subject matter expertise in the assigned product domain, continued customer engagement throughout the software development life cycle, and driving accountability by the business for user needs.
Prototypes, documents, and reviews functional software solutions with the cross-functional development team to solve our customer's greatest problems within the context of a system software release.
Within a sprint team the individual in this role will collaborate with an extended development team to define user stories and their associated acceptance criteria for the software that drives BD's suite of medication dispensing devices, medication management enterprise applications.
JOB RESPONSIBILITIES:
- Elicit feedback from internal and external stakeholders to confirm that the functional problems are sufficiently understood
- Partner with business owners to clarify and prioritize value of product backlog
- Analyzes assigned functional workflows supported by our Medication Management & Dispensing software products
- Documents functional needs of the end-user in the form of Features and User Stories & their associated acceptance criteria
- May model functional workflows and create story maps for assigned features
- Independently leads the internal development team and broader R&D stakeholders through backlog grooming and refinement activities.
- Partner with UX designers to create visual representations of the proposed solutions
- Ensures that the software engineering, software quality engineering, and product management teams understand the functional solutions well enough to successfully estimate, develop, and test them
- Ensures readiness of features ahead of implementation
- Accountable for ensuring product features have met the team's definition of done
Desired Experience:
- Experience working within a cross-functional product development team
- Demonstrates working knowledge of agile product development practices, techniques, processes, and roles
- Familiarity with the medication management product domain
- Experience defining user-facing problem statements and confirming validity with internal and external customer stakeholders
- Ability to translate the results of analysis into a functional design by designing solutions to address requirement(s)
Qualifications:
- Requires a Bachelor's degree in related field, preferably in Computer Science, Systems Engineering, Software Engineering, or Computer Engineering
- 3 - 5 years' experience in a requirements engineering, system engineering, business analysis, or product ownership role
Desired Abilities:
- Successful in partnering with Software Engineering, Software Quality Engineering, Product Management, and/or Project Management teams
- Strong interpersonal and negotiation skills
- Excellent oral and written communication skills
- Comfort with presenting to large cross-functional groups
- Ability to garner and drive consensus across multiple functions
- Comfortable with ambiguity
Preferred experience:
- Familiarity with the hospital, pharmacy, nursing, or other clinically related domains
- Exposure to PIS's (Pharmacy Information Systems), eMAR's, Patient ADT, Formulary, or similar Hospital Information Systems
- Experience creating and reviewing formal design inputs such as User Needs, Requirements, and Specifications
- Experience working within an agile software development environment, directly supporting the needs of the sprint team as a product owner or product owner-proxy
- Experience working on systems comprised of hardware and software