Title:  Cloud Platform Product Owner

Package:  Competitive Salary + Benefits

Role ID:    SF17250

Are you ready to be part of the future? At QinetiQ, we’re not just imagining tomorrow we are creating it. From cutting edge defence technology to ground breaking innovations our mission is to empower and protect lives.  Join us as a Cloud Platform Product Owner at our Farnborough, Malvern or Bristol site, where you will have the opportunity to work with cutting-edge technology in partnership with some of the most brilliant minds.

The Role:
As a Cloud Platform Product Owner you would join the Digital Enterprise Services Product team, where you will be responsible for the vision, roadmap, development and ongoing operation of your Product(s) deployed across the enterprise.

Day-to-day, you’ll lead a team of specialists with responsibility for the user satisfaction, value, cost, availability and lifecycle of your products, ensuring duplication, inefficiency and obsolescence is driven out and risk is effectively managed.

Your responsibilities will include:

• Establish and maintain excellent relationships with Business Owner(s) and key stakeholder groups for your Products, and use those relationships to understand and optimise the value your Products deliver to the organisation
• Work closely with the in-sector support and Service Management teams to ensure that your Products are deployed, operated and consumed effectively across the business
• Collaborate with other Product Owners, including those delivering components or platforms that your Products depend on or depend on yours to deliver an integrated, cost-effective service to the organisation and / or its customers

Essential experience of the Cloud Platform Product Owner:

• Strong experience of detailed experience in IT services within an enterprise level IT environment
• Experience of full-lifecycle accountability for a technology or product domain delivered in a complex business environment
• Knowledge and awareness of Azure Cloud Platforms
• An ability to turn business strategy into practical direction for a technical team
• Awareness and understanding of IT & Corporate systems and solutions, current trends and emerging technologies
• Excellent knowledge of relevant applications / platforms and product user rights

Essential qualifications for the Cloud Platform Product Owner:

We value difference and we don’t have a fixed idea when it comes to background or education, provided you can show the required level of experience and willingness to learn then we would like to hear from you. 

This role is 37 hours per week based at Farnborough, Malvern or Bristol. Hybrid working patterns available.

QinetiQ operates state-of-the-art facilities across the UK that focus on defence, security and technology innovation. These facilities enable QinetiQ to conduct a wide range of research, testing and development activities that support both military and civilian applications helping to advance technology and support national security.

Why Join QinetiQ?

As we continue to grow into new markets around the world, there’s never been a more exciting time to join QinetiQ. The formula for success is our appetite for innovation and having the courage to take on a wide variety of complex challenges.  As a QinetiQ employee, you’ll experience a unique working environment where teams from different backgrounds, disciplines and experience enjoy collaborating widely and openly as we undertake this exciting and rewarding journey. Through effective teamwork, and pulling together, you’ll get to experience what happens when we all share different perspectives, blend disciplines, and link technologies; constantly discovering new ways of solving complex problems in a diverse and inclusive environment where you can be authentic, feel valued and realise your full potential. Visit our website to read more about our diverse and inclusive workplace culture.  www.qinetiq.com/en/careers/life-at-qinetiq

Our Benefits

• Matched contribution pension scheme, with life assurance
• Generous holiday allowance, with the option to purchase additional days
• Options to join Health Cash Plan, Private Medical Insurance and Dental Insurance
• Employee discount portal: Personal Accident Insurance, Travel Insurance, Restaurants, Cinema Tickets and much more
• We are proud to support the Armed Forces community by honouring the Armed Forces Covenant and maintaining our Gold Award standard in the Defence Employer Recognition Scheme
• Volunteering Opportunities - helping charities and local community

Our Recruitment Process:

We want to make sure that our recruitment process is as inclusive as possible and we aspire to bring out the best in our candidates by creating an environment where everyone feels value, heard and supported.  If you have a disability or health condition that may affect your performance in certain assessment types, please speak to your Recruiter about potential reasonable adjustments.

Many roles in QinetiQ are subject to national security vetting being completed, applicants who already hold the appropriate level of vetting may be able to transfer it upon appointment. A number of roles are also subject to additional restrictions, which mean factors such as nationality or previous nationalities may affect the roles that you can be employed in.

For further information on National Security Vetting please see link below

UKSV National Security Vetting Solution: guidance for applicants - GOV.UK (www.gov.uk)