Product Owner

Job Title: IT Service Owner / Team Lead (Bridgehead)

Summary:

• Single point of contact between business and engineering for one delivery team.
• Combines business analysis, agile facilitation, and team coordination.
• Elicits and documents business requirements, translates them into testable user stories, facilitates Scrum/Kanban events, tracks flow metrics, removes impediments, and manages stakeholder communication.
• Ensures alignment with BMW enterprise architecture, compliance, and KPIs.
• Owns the technical vision and system architecture across APIs, cloud infrastructure, integrations, and GUI.
• Performs critical code reviews, defines coding standards, and mentors developers.
• Takes on hands-on development work alongside leadership duties.

Mandatory Skills (in order of importance):

1. Requirements engineering (eliciting requirements, user stories, acceptance criteria, process flows)
2. Agile frameworks & facilitation (Scrum, Kanban planning, stand-ups, reviews, retrospectives)
3. Agile tooling (Jira boards, backlogs, sprints, dashboards, reports)
4. Flow metrics & visualization (throughput, lead time, cycle time, WIP, CFDs)
5. Product domain knowledge (vehicle validation, test/defect management, e/e processes)
6. Coaching & mentoring (team dynamics, conflict resolution, continuous improvement)
7. Stakeholder management (cross-team coordination, management reporting, escalation)
8. KPI & compliance reporting
9. Software architecture & technical leadership experience
10. TypeScript / JavaScript (full-stack)
11. Core Java
12. Springboot, MicroServices
13. AWS CDK, Lambda, API Gateway, VPC, IAM (deep hands-on)

Advantageous Skills:

• Cloud & technology awareness (AWS services, serverless, databases, GraphQL, React concepts)
• IREB (Requirements Engineering) methods
• Enterprise architecture alignment (BMW IT Guidelines, standards)
• IT Service Management (ITSM processes, PIC)
• Interface management (API contracts, data flows)
• Docker, ECS Fargate, ECR
• SQS, SNS, EventBridge, Kafka (event-driven architecture)
• CloudWatch, X-Ray (monitoring & distributed tracing)
• Test strategy design (Jest)
• BMW SCP.apps (Integrate) platform experience
• AWS Cost Optimization