Product Owner

Job summary

You will work in a matrix style on products supporting our Genomics Data Integration Workgroup. The aim of this work is to improve data integration between genomics systems and downstream consumers of that data for health protection. This work reports into the Digital & Data Directorate but works across our Medical, Science, and Data Departments. It’s an exciting time to join as we seek to create leading Health Protection data capabilities that enable data scientists and data analysts to develop insights that inform public health decisions with resilient platforms and curated data assets.

Working for your organisation

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Job description

You will draw from an extensive background of experience in translation of requirements into technical deliverables within a software and data lifecycle
environment. You will be fluent in data capabilities and the potential extension and creation of new data capabilities to achieve the objectives of these products.

You will possess excellent people management skills, be able to engage and build strong relationships with business partners. The key skills required include
strong relationship management, be commercially astute, strong data analysis, clear and concise communications both verbally and written and ability to
develop business partnering.

Communication and key working relationships

Internal

• Delivery Leads
• Scrum masters
• Data Engineers
• Architect/Solution leads
• Lab specialists
• Clinical analysts
• Health Protection Teams

External

• Business Partners
• UKHSA leadership team
• Analytics and Reporting
• Central delivery team
• Surveillance and Covid Testing teams
• ONS

Main duties and responsibilities

• Product Delivery – You will be responsible for establishing and developing solutions with Stakeholders using product development techniques for road mapping (e.g. MOSCOW, Kano, or Pareto) and selected tools to describe the Product vision (e.g. business model canvas, lean canvas, or vision box).You will be commercial geared and propose new solutions to increase the Data Product’s business value ensuring alignment to their business partners objectives as part of the UKHSA strategy.
• Stakeholder Management – You will develop strong relationships and close collaboration with Business partners to define the next iterations of the Data Product and plan their releases. Deliver excellent communications, presenting the team’s perspective to the business partner, and building their trust. Understand the business and technical requirements and capabilities with the ability to propose new solutions to meet their Data and Analytics Partner’s needs.
• Delivery framework – You will demonstrate your experience across Product Lifecycle including Strategy, Development, End User Experience, into an agile delivery framework, working alongside scrum masters and data engineers to ensure all deliverable goals are met without any impact to quality.

The core activities of the products for this role include the ingestion of data sources, building data pipelines, curated data views and data capabilities fused from data, models and software that enable the exploitation of data by analysts, data scientists and MI teams.

You will be involved in the delivery lifecycle from engaging with stakeholders on analysing use cases, developing optimal designs that where possible re-use and extend capabilities, and implement and operate the design. Our teams work collaboratively in an agile multi-disciplinary team mode and we are looking for a Product Owner to engage with stakeholders and acquire knowledge on a specialist field to product capabilities in line with business partner strategies.

Please note, the above is not exhaustive.

Person specification

Essential Criteria:

• Strong relationship management: excellent communication and influencing skills – verbal and written – with the ability to liaise at all levels
• Balance of both technical awareness and business acumen
• Ability to manage in an ambiguous environment, clarifying strategies and plans, giving a sense of direction and purpose for self and team
• Ability to drive change and overcome obstacles and resistance
• Constructive and collaborative but with the ability to step in and take decisions in a timely manner to move the team forward
• High attention to detail
• Experience with Agile delivery and working in Agile Scrum teams

Desirable Criteria:

• Experience of working with JIRA (or Azure DevOps or similar tools) within an Agile/Scrum environment
• Experience/understanding of software and data lifecycle management
• Knowledge of data management and cloud data capabilities (AWS Athena, AWS Glue, AWS Data Sync

Benefits

Alongside your salary of £56,185, UK Health Security Agency contributes £16,276 towards you being a member of the Civil Service Defined Benefit Pension scheme. Find out what benefits a Civil Service Pension provides (opens in a new window).

• Learning and development tailored to your role
• An environment with flexible working options
• A culture encouraging inclusion and diversity
• A Civil Service pension with an employer contribution of 28.97%

Things you need to know

Artificial intelligence

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Selection process details

This vacancy is using Success Profiles and will assess your Behaviours and Experience.

Stage 1: Application & Sift

Success Profiles - GOV.UK

You will be required to complete an application form. You will be assessed on the listed 7 essential criteria, and this will be in the form of a:

• Application form (‘Employer/ Activity history’ section on the application)

• 1500 word supporting statement.