Landis+Gyr is a leading global provider of integrated energy management solutions. We measure and analyze energy utilization to generate empowering analytics for smart grid and infrastructure management, enabling utilities and consumers to reduce energy consumption. Our innovative and proven portfolio of software, services and intelligent sensor technology is a key driver to decarbonize the grid and helped to avoid around 9 million tons of CO2 in FY 2023. With sales of USD 2.0 billion in FY 2023, Landis+Gyr employs around 6,900 talented people across five continents. 

For more than a century, we've been pioneers in energy innovation, and we continue to lead the way toward a more sustainable and efficient energy landscape. 

Join us at Landis+Gyr, where we manage energy better! 

Position Summary

The Product Owner serves as an expert in business process engineering and software development life cycle, including analysis, design, development, testing and implementation of software applications.  This role elicits requirements, evaluates options, and provides direction on implementation.

The Product Owner must understand stakeholder requirements and how Landis+Gyr solutions fit into these requirements. The Product Owner analyzes feature requirements for products or product lines and transforms requirements into development work items.

The ideal candidate will have either previous device and device management experience or cloud and analytics experience.

Key Responsibilities

• Analyze functional and stakeholder requirements to produce optimized user stories
• Present system capabilities to stakeholders and 3rd party partners
• Manage requirements, user stories and traceability through the product lifecycle
• Understand, interpret, and rationalize solutions to complex problems
• Work in diverse cross functional development teams including resources both foreign and domestic
• Work closely with Product Managers and other Product Owners to ensure features/user stories meet the acceptance criteria of the requirements provided by Product Management
• Work with System Architects on design and architecture of system solutions
• Work with software QA teams to ensure test cases cover all the scenarios required for testing features and user stories
• Work with Documentation team to provide technical details and review customer facing release documents such as user guides and release notes
• Participate in various sprint/iteration meetings as well as facilitate meetings with development teams when required
• Proactively communicate and collaborate with stakeholders to deliver the artifacts such as Functional Requirements, User stories, Use Cases, UI Screens, Interface designs, etc.
• Create new and maintain existing documentation as new requirements are introduced and implemented
• Support and adhere to Company’s Code of Conduct and Ethics Policy.
• Perform other duties as assigned or required.

Education and Experience

Required Minimum Level of Education: Bachelor’s degree

Desired Education/Experience:

• Experience as a Business Analyst/Systems Analyst/Product Owner in a wide variety of project sizes
• Multi-dimensional (diverse) product development experience is a plus

The Product Owner may have experience with any of the following:

• RF Communications
• Computer Networking
• MS.Net/Java Application
• Database PostgreSQL preferred, Oracle, SQL Server
• Message Bus or Streaming (Kafka)
• Azure DevOps formerly Team Foundation Server (TFS) or equivalent
• Agile methodology
• Confluence/Wiki
• Knowledge of the utility industry (Electric, Gas, Water)
• Machine Learning and Cloud Analytics
• Cloud technologies (preferably GCP’s offerings)

Required/Desired Certifications:

Preferred “Product Owner” certification 

Knowledge, Skills, and Abilities

• Experience defining or understanding software requirements
• Excellent verbal and written communication skills
• Ability to work with 3rd party partners on a daily basis.
• Ability to convey complex topics to management, stakeholders and the software development teams
• Ability to work in small teams, as well as independently, with minimal supervision
• Ability to create new and maintain existing documentation.
• Self-starter, well organized and ability to work following processes and methodologies
• Working knowledge of Azure DevOps /TFS
• Good working knowledge of Microsoft applications (i.e., Word, Excel, Visio)

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