Senior Business Engineer/ Technical Product Owner to conduct problem discovery and ideation workshops, manage and prioritize the product backlog within the

Our Public sector client is seeking a Senior Business Engineer/ Technical Product Owner to conduct problem discovery and ideation workshops, manage and prioritize the product backlog within the Innovation & AI team.

1 year contract, possibilities of extensions; Vancouver based, Hybrid - Once a week in office , in Addition, Must be able to come into the office for important in person meetings.

Must Have:

• 7+ years working experience as a Product Owner, which includes 3 years direct hands-on experience in the Agile practice and DevOps within an enterprise level, in highly complex and integrated environments.
• Extensive experience liaising with product owners and developing design artifacts such as personas, journey maps, wireframes, story boards, user flows, process flows, site maps, prototypes, and mockups.
• Experience writing user stories including acceptance criteria. performing user research, analyzing user needs and solutions and aligning with business outcomes.
• Experience designing, planning and facilitating problem discovery and ideation workshops in group settings
• Holds Product Owner certification as Certified Scrum Product Owner (CSPO), Professional Scrum Product Owner (PSPO), SAFe Product Manager / Product Owner (PMPO), IEEE Computer Society Scrum Product Owner Certification, Agile Certified Professional (ACP) or similar.
• Experience contributing to prioritization of backlogs comprising of feature development and technical debt, quality assurance and supporting team delivery.
• Holds Scaled Agile Framework (SAFe) training and certification like SAFe Practitioner, or commitment to take the course and obtain certification within 2 months from commencement of work.
• University degree in Computer Science or Business Administration or STEM (Science, Technology, Engineering, Math)

Responsibilities:

• Apply strong strategic thinking and problem-solving skills to effectively align and execute on initiatives with broader organizational priorities and goals.
• Manage a large, complex portfolio of innovative opportunities that span across divisions
• Engage stakeholders by building solid relationships through continuous and effective communication.
• Monitoring and evaluating progress at each stage of the innovation, product management lifecycle.
• Liaising with the key stakeholders, product team and end-users to deliver updates.
• Validates the requirements to ensure they meet the desired outcome/benefit.
• Creates options, through team collaboration, to remove impediments that may be blocking the teams' progress.
• Performs problem discovery, user research, analyze user needs and align with desired business outcomes.
• Understands cross functional team capacity to influence commitments based on knowledge of team velocity.
• Participates in team and effort activities as needed such as: backlog grooming, sprint planning and team retrospectives. This includes working with the Scrum Master, Business Engineer, the DevOps team, and the community of engineers.
• Acts as a core member of Innovation Team and key contributor and subject matter expert
• Identifies and implements opportunities for improvement around process, technology and people.

Deliverables:

• Create product backlogs that transposes business requirements and non-functional requirements into unambiguous user stories and acceptance criteria for delivery teams to build product.
• Plan, create and facilitate problem discovery and ideation workshops with multiple key stakeholders and end-user groups. Synthesize outcome of workshops and share back with key insights to derive next steps in product lifecycle.
• Creates problem statements, business process flows, product requirements documents and roadmaps to articulate product strategy to move opportunity forward.