Job Summary: The company is looking to recruit an ambitious and energetic Technical Product Owner, who will help the company to lead the revolution of renewable energy. Given that organisation is taking renewable energy into a new realm with a new set of tools, the role will require creativity, innovation and a new way of thinking.
Specifically, the job requires taking ownership of the following on a global level:
- The product of the digital platform at the organisation consisting of
- An interconnected ecosystem of software tools across all company verticals
- Structured storage of data across tools
- Automation of repetitive tasks
- Collect, consolidate and prioritize business requirements and incorporate user inputs from business process designers, data analysts and other internal stakeholders. Maintain relationships with SaaS providers and manage budgeting & contract negotiations/renewals
- Build a development roadmap for the digital platform for the next 12 - 24 months
- Coordinate the building/upgrading and maintenance of the digital platform with in-house and external software developers (incl. dev/ops)
- Ensure interoperability of platform including database structure
- Identify the skill and bandwidth requirements, and execute on the resourcing plan
- Enhance the appreciation and knowledge of technical concepts and the product itself within the entire organization and increase the usage (frequency and quality) of the product
- Project and measure commercial viability for platform components and their connection
Location: Preferably Johannesburg, Cape Town or Durban.
Hours: Full time.
Job Requirements:- At least 3+ years of experience in a technical leadership position, ideally technical product owner, solution architect or IT administrator
- Knowledge of software design and product architectures
- Managed the purchase decisions and implementation/maintenance of SaaS products
- Spent time in a Software Engineering role
- Managed software engineers
- Entrepreneurial mindset
- Touch points with data modelling and pipelining is a plus
- Touch points with process automation is a plus
Working Culture:- You agree to live out the company values every day of your employment: this includes to put empathy before ego, being authentic no matter what, that we get it done as one and follow the principle that less is more
- A dynamic, cross-functional team player, willing to take initiative on projects in the context of a multicultural scale-up trying to execute big, bold ideas.
- Having experience working for an international company, or having studied or worked abroad, is considered a plus.
- You must be open, honest, trustworthy, a strong communicator, and understand that what we get done as a team surpasses what we get done individually.
- This organisation is an equal opportunities employer. This organisation is unique because...
- We focus on helping businesses of all sizes in emerging markets get access to cheap, clean renewable energy.
- We have a strong emphasis on a client-centric & innovation-driven working culture.
- We are an international team where remote working is commonplace, where we trust our team members to actively carve out a role for themselves according to their skillset.
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