Product Owner for Mainframe Engineering Tooling - Maternity Cover

Job Description

Product Owner for Mainframe Engineering Tooling Squad (Maternity Cover)

The Developer Experience Tribe is offering an exciting opportunity to make a meaningful impact on the productivity and satisfaction of developers in Danske Bank.

While the current Product Owner is on maternity leave, you will take on the responsibility of the Mainframe Engineering Tooling squad within the Developer Experience Tribe. As the Product Owner, you will be responsible for a vast portfolio of products, ensuring best in class tooling for software development for the mainframe platform. You will be responsible for leveraging AI capabilities and further enhancing and modernizing the developer experience.

The team members in the squad are primarily located in Denmark, but also with members in Lithuania and India. As a member of this motivated team, you will collaborate with talented individuals who are passionate about creating exceptional experiences for developers. You will have the chance to shape the tools and processes that empower developers to thrive, innovate, and deliver high-quality software solutions. Joining us means being part of a dynamic and forward-thinking team where you can contribute your expertise, learn from others, and play a crucial role in shaping the future of software development within the organization.

Your Day-Day Responsibilities:

• Guide and inspire the squad to collaborate and deliver on prioritised tasks to enhance the experience for the IT development community.
• Create outcomes and vision to deliver customer value.
• Create, maintain, and prioritize the backlog of user stories that your squad members will use for their daily work.
• Protect the team's time to focus on deliveries.
• Be in constant contact with developers to understand issues and needs.
• Responsible for ensuring that products comply with internal governance requirements.
• Responsible for the on-going assessment, review, and performance monitoring of the team’s product portfolio.
• Accountable for risks, compliance, and contracts related to the applications / services owned.
• Responsible for all product and squad owned activities related to reducing technical debt, by showing due diligence and ensure a sustainable and healthy product.
  
  

About You:

• Bachelor's degree in Business, Computer Science, Engineering, or a related field.
• At least 3 years of proven experience as a Product Owner, Project Manager, or similar role in a technical environment.
• In-depth knowledge of Agile methodologies, particularly Scrum and Kanban.
• Familiarity with financial services or working in a regulated environment is a plus.
• Customer focused, ideally with proven success in enhancing developer experiences.
• Leadership skills with the ability to build, guide, and inspire a team. Strong focus on ability to set direction, communicate priorities and collaborate.
• Good strategic planning abilities, and the ability to convey strategy to executable actions. This includes roadmap development and executing projects.
• Excellent communication and interpersonal skills, with the ability to collaborate effectively with cross-functional teams, as well as developers and management.
• Strong problem-solving and decision-making abilities to manoeuvre in ambiguity, as well as an analytical mindset to make data-driven decisions.
• Ability to thrive in a high pace environment with high level of empowerment
  
  

Eager to be part of this thrilling journey? Then we look forward to hearing from you and kindly ask that you attach your CV and a compelling Cover Letter that reveals why you envision yourself thriving in this role.

If any further questions to the position, feel free to contact Henrik Sloth Schade on [email protected]