Product Owner

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**We are looking for a Product Owner -**Automatic Train Protection Systems, ATP (Railway Domain)

**You’ll make a difference by**:

- ** Key Responsibilities**:

- Requirements Management
- Develop and communicate the product vision and roadmap to all relevant stakeholders and team members
- Work closely with stakeholders to identify and understand their needs and translate these into product requirements
- Create and prioritize a product backlog, ensuring the team is working on the highest value features
- Define user stories and acceptance criteria and ensure they are clearly understood by the development team
- Work closely with the development team throughout the product development process, providing clarification and direction where needed
- Review and accept completed work, ensuring it meets the defined acceptance criteria and overall quality standards
- Measure and report on product performance and progress towards strategic goals
- Continuously gather feedback from users and stakeholders.
- Resolve conflicts and remove obstacles that may affect the team’s ability to meet project objectives
- Ensure test coverage for SIL4 safety-critical systems in compliance with EN 50126, EN 50128, and EN 50129.
- Take lead of scrum teams as the Product Owner
- Define product vision, roadmap as per new specifications released by RDSO.
- Assess value, develop cases, and prioritize stories, epics and themes to ensure work focuses on those with maximum value that are aligned with product strategy
- Provide backlog management, iteration planning, and elaboration of the user stories
- Work closely with Product Management to create and maintain a product backlog according to business value or ROI
- Lead the planning product release plans and set expectation for delivery of new functionalities
- Follow our competitors and the industry
- Keep abreast with Agile/Scrum best practices and new trends
- Domain-Specific Experience
- Understand overall system from technology and functionality standpoint. Define dependency list as well as delivery checklist for each Kavach components.
- Validate requirements have met at the end of the sprint or during testing cycles based on the test evidence.
- Collaborate with system architects and safety engineers to ensure traceability and completeness of test cases and product documentation.
- Share your knowledge with development team to ensure they have understood “Why” part.
- Performance & Risk Management
- Experience in implementing risks identification and mitigation strategies.
- Optimize sprint planning and PI and roadmap planning.
- Support test team with compliance with regulatory requirements.
- ** Required Skills & Qualifications**:

- ** Must Have**:

- Bachelor’s or master’s degree in Electronics, Computer Science, or related field.
- Previous working experience as a Product Owner for at least 3 years.
- 10+ years of experience of development, testing and/or requirements engineering in embedded systems, preferably in railway or other safety-critical domains.
- Understanding and experience of working with CENELEC/SIL4-compliant systems.
- In-depth knowledge of Agile process and principles
- Outstanding communication, presentation and leadership skills
- Excellent organizational and time management skills
- Sharp analytical and problem-solving skills
- Attention to detail
- Following are Nice - To -Have requirements:

- Hands-on experience with TCAS/Kavach or similar train protection systems is desired.
- Strong knowledge of real-time systems, communication protocols (e.g., CAN, Ethernet), and embedded software concepts.
- Familiarity with EN 5012x standards, safety lifecycle, and formal verification methods.
- Exposure to other ATP systems such as ETCS, PTC, or CBTC.
- Knowledge of Requirement Management tools like Polarion, Jira, Confluence, Doors etc.
- Knowledge and experience of working on requirements traceability matrix.
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