Technical Product Owner

Maersk is going through times of unprecedented change. From the farm to your refrigerator, or the factory to your ward-robe, we are developing digital solutions that meet customer needs from one end of the supply chain to the other. Digiti-zation and IT are taking center stage in enabling our customers to trade globally. Join us in Maersk Technology as we re-think what technology can do.

Established approximately 2 years ago, the Vessel and Asset IT is a specialized function with focus on engineering and services for the fleet of 300+ vessel and 3+ million containers. We are growing in numbers to cater for the increasing demand of services leveraging the vast amount of data that our fleet of vessels and containers already generate or can be enabled to generate.

To shape future of our digital solutions for Equipment IOT, we are looking for a driven Technical product owner to join the Vessel & Asset IT Organization in Maersk Technology.

We offer

An exciting and attractive career in an ambitious and competitive environment with the possibility of continuous profes-sional and personal development. Maersk Technology offers a fast paced, challenging and truly international atmosphere with activities in Denmark, United Kingdom, USA, Spain and India. The environment is dynamic with focus on high per-formance, results, and respect for our employees.

As Technical product owner, you will gain broad business knowledge of the company’s activities globally, as well as under-stand how the complexity of Technology supports the transport and logistics business and how use of Internet of things improving asset management.

You will be exposed to a wide and interesting range of business challenges through regular engagement with key stake-holders across all management levels within Maersk. Your role is to define and refine technical workstream backlog for various IOT product and platform development stream, engage with architects and development team to enable deliveries and align with product managers on various aspects of deliveries. You would also support operations for products in pro-duction.

You will join a team of currently 50+ highly skilled employees in Copenhagen and Pune, India aiming to grow further over next 6-9 months.

The Maersk culture is built on heritage, sustained through innovative thinking, and prided for the level of trust it has earned throughout the years. Without our employees, none of this would be possible. For over a century, Maersk has been doing business in industries where trust means everything. The secret behind Maersk’s reputation as a credible and valuable business partner is its people. In every business unit, in every office around the world, Maersk has always been driven by a strong team spirit, and an even stronger sense of pride. At Maersk, every employee is empowered to achieve and surpass their potential, while remaining focused on creating lasting business relationships and long-term, sustainable success.

Maersk is a highly international and inspiring environment with an attractive value proposition for its employees. As part of ensuring a successful work-life balance we promote flexible work-hours and the possibility to work from home when convenient. In connection with maternity leave, we pay for 12 weeks leave with full salary for men and 24 weeks leave for women. In addition to salary, our package consists of a pension scheme, health insurance and 6 weeks holiday a year.

Key responsibilities

You will be a contributing technical product owner, who is techno functional analyst supporting Scrum teams and collabo-rate with the other teams in the program. You will be reporting directly to the Head of Equipment IOT. Your tasks will among other things include the following:
• Work with business and IT stakeholders to gain a full understanding of the business vision, scope and benefits mapping for a project/initiative

• Define, refine and prioritize product backlog for IOT platform and products engaging with business product owners.
• Analyze business needs, understand context, identify solution scenarios, define integration needs, align with architects and manage backlog.
• Challenge, influence and support the stakeholders to solve issues and help realizing the company vision
• Understand and refine business processes to align with business objective and product roadmap

• Maintain traceability of requirements to policy and standards into requirements e.g. security policies and standards
•Participate and lead Scrum ceremonies, e.g. sprint planning, backlog refinement and task estimation
•Ensure product and platform requirements are complete from functional, non-functional and security perspective
•Work with delivery teams to develop sustainable and achievable solutions & verifying the implementation ensuring the delivered system is consistent with the desired business benefits
•Adopt modern technologies and accelerate innovation in the department by driving cloud-native approach, PaaS para-digm, T-shaped people mindset, DevOps, etc.

We are looking for

Five or more years of experience as a business analyst, or similar role, participating in large, complex IT projects •Experience building technical products and ability to troubleshoot technical and non-technical problems

•Experience with technologies like .Net, Microservices, Azure Paas components
•Great analytical skills in mastering multi-functional highly scalable systems, firm understanding of computer science, networking technologies and design, multi-tenant applications, and database technologies
•Experience in working with Agile, Scrum delivery environment

•Excellent collaboration and communication skills, able to build and maintain relationships

•Experience in working in an international and constantly developing environment
•Stakeholder management skills, experience of leading and influencing resources not under direct line management.

•Focused on quality
•Ability to understand the bigger picture and drive out key business benefits and business cases where required for pro-jects/programmes
•Working knowledge of IT tools and practices (Jira, Confluence, SDLC, ITIL)
•Ability to work under minimal supervision
Team player

In addition to above the suitable candidate has ideally:
•Experience in the marine industry.
•Knowledge and practical experience in the usage of satellite communication.
•Experience with mobile communication