Product Owner

**Come create the technology that helps the world act together**

Nokia is committed to innovation and technology leadership across mobile, fixed and cloud networks. Your career here will have a positive impact on people’s lives and will help us build the capabilities needed for a more productive, sustainable, and inclusive world.

We challenge ourselves to create an inclusive way of working where we are open to new ideas, empowered to take risks and fearless to bring our authentic selves to work.

**The team you’ll part of**

As Nokia's growth engine, we create value for communication service providers and enterprise customers by leading the transition to cloud-native software and as-a-service delivery models. Our inclusive team of dreamers, doers and disruptors push the limits from impossible to possible.

You will part of the core team that deploys/automates our products from Business Applications Portfolio. Your team will be responsible to constantly innovate and ease deployments through automation & adopt to customer requirements using latest cutting-edge technologies and cloud native solutions.

This is an exciting opportunity with a fun team that values trust and autonomy. You will be a part of a team whose objectives are to deliver in an environment where openness, trust and autonomy are encouraged, each team member selects the tasks to work on and exchanges daily with his/her team mates on the progress and challenges.

**What you will learn and contribute to**

We are looking for passionate Product Owner

As part of our team, you will:

- Owner of the Feature Backlog in R&D. Defines and enforces backlog planning process for assigned product to ensure timely delivery of features
- Interface to Product Management regarding feature handling and planning
- Ability to orchestrate the work on tasks of multiple types, size, complexity, urgency and priority
- Good understanding of SaFe Agile software development and Scrum framework
- Accountable for owning a Streaming Product
- Sustainability and long-term view of product domain
- Consolidates feature effort and schedule estimations for FS2 decisions including bottleneck analysis and proposals to balance resources over the units
- Release planning
- Ensure prioritization of Long lead time (multiple releases) features
- Measures release development performance and fosters improvements
- Strong drive & ability to coordinate work for the team members
- Beyond standard approach to solve problems
- Owning and prioritizing the backlog, make decisions on features the squad will deliver; participate in planning and alignment forums across teams
- Define the scope and vision for minimum viable product and minimum marketable product based on customer needs, resolving the trade-offs and bridging the gap between customer, business and tech considerations
- Represent voice of the customer, regularly seek feedback from users and use the feedback, coupled with quantitative data to iterate rapidly
- Responsible for unlocking and delivering benefits / efficiencies in the Squad, with assistance of the Squad Members as required

**Your skills and experience**

Mandatory skills:

- Min Bachelor of Engineering Degree with minimum 12+ years’ experience
- 7+ years of experience in Product Owner role
- Strong Product Development Experience in an Agile Scrum Team
- Agile, DevOps, Scrum, Kanban Methodologies
- Hands on with Java & C languages and build tools
- Experience in containerization (Docker, Kubernetes), cloud native architecture
- Exposure to Microservices development
- Worked on Database any of SQL/No SQL DB
- Exposure in various hyper scalars
- Good communication skills

Nice to have skills:

- Exposure to Streaming Technologies (kafka, Flink, Kinesis, Spark etc)
- Automation/CI/CD experience: Jenkins, GIT
- ‘Getting things done’ and hands-on mentality

**What we offer**

Nokia offers flexible and hybrid working schemes, continuous learning opportunities, well-being programs to support you mentally and physically, opportunities to join and get supported by employee resource groups, mentoring programs and highly diverse teams with an inclusive culture where people thrive and are empowered.

**Nokia is committed to inclusion and is an equal opportunity employer**

Nokia has received the following recognitions for its commitment to inclusion & equality:

- One of the World’s Most Ethical Companies by Ethisphere
- Gender-Equality Index by Bloomberg
- Workplace Pride Global Benchmark
- LGBT+ equality & best place to work by HRC Foundation

At Nokia, we act inclusively and respect the uniqueness of people.

Nokia’s employment decisions are made regardless of race, color, national or ethnic origin, religion, gender, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, age, marital status, disability, protected veteran status or other characteristics protected by law.

We are committed to a culture of inclusion built upon our core value of respect.

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