Lenovo

Description and Requirements

What you'll do:

This position is for a Technical Product Owner for cloud development platform within Lenovo’s Infrastructure Solutions Group (ISG), based in Morrisville, North Carolina.  
This is an exciting role supporting the premier development effort in a growing software and solutions development organization that is focused on being the #1 trusted IT Partner in the datacenter infrastructure market.  

The customer is always a top priority for this team and the position offers opportunities to grow and solve unique client challenges. 
The candidate will collaborate with worldwide, matrix, engineering & business teams to deliver world class hosted software and will use hybrid & agile methodologies to drive the solution delivery. The candidate will act as a servant leader supporting & facilitating relevant agile ceremonies while maintaining a high level of team morale. 
As a delivery-focused individual you will leverage strong verbal and written communication skills to drive the required initiatives forward by removing impediments, create a common understanding of the product and drive an end-to-end solution delivery. 

Work scope:
1. Assisting and advising the business Product Owner on critical technical decisions.
2. Helping the business Product Owner to add and prioritize stories concerning technical debt or technical enablers for business features.
3. Assisting with the product roadmap planning, ensuring complete visibility for both business and technical items.
4. Act as a technical advisor to stakeholders such as business owners, product managers, scrum masters, and members of other teams
5. Support and guide teams on important technical / architectural decisions.
6. Highlights and helps resolve cross-team architectural dependencies.
7. Helps with backlog prioritization and sprint planning.
8. Collaborate with Solution Architects to establish a cohesive product picture 
9.  Support the development of a single technical backlog for all teams
10. Create and manage architecture roadmap in collaboration with the component architects 
11. Guide architecture changes across multiple groups in a consistent way
12. Schedule technical spikes or architectural changes ahead of dependent functional commitments in the product roadmap.
13. In collaboration with business Product Owner and architects create all required product requirement documentation for agile teams to facilitate a continuous delivery 

**** Required skills:
Bachelor’s Degree 
6+ years of cloud solution architect experience with a proven track record of success 
2 + years of architecting highly resilient solutions for Azure or multi-cloud 
Experience in programming languages (NodeJs, Angular) 
Experience with Git and modern CI/CD frameworks and toolsets 
strong planning, organization and people management skills 
Strong experience of working collaboratively with a cross-functional team of Dev, QA & Product Owner 

**** Preferred skills:
Experience working in consultative roles 
Experience with multi-cloud platforms