Product Owner - Software Engineering Platforms

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Do you thrive in a collaborative environment and enjoy improving operational stability? Would you like to contribute to building a state-of-the-art platform based on Open Source software?

We are looking for a Product Owner to join our team in the Digital Foundation department at Novo Nordisk. Apply today!

Behind the title

As a Product Owner at Novo Nordisk, you will be working on the Heimdall platform – our internal software engineering platform, supporting multiple internal development teams. You will be responsible for preparing and driving the definition of product vision, roadmap, backlog stakeholder management and prioritization.

Additionally, your responsibilities include:

• Being the Product Owner of one or more teams of highly technical platform engineers responsible for products in Heimdall platform
• Driving development of Heimdall software engineering capabilities in collaboration with stream-aligned engineering teams from the business
• Ensuring that your backlog is up to date with input from System Architects and LoB stakeholders
• Collaborating with stakeholders to understand key drivers for deliveries to enable ongoing prioritization and content elaboration
• Clarifying and coordinating dependencies with other Product Owners, Product Management, external stakeholders, and development teams
• Driving and contributing to change management related to new technologies & practices for cloud native software engineering
• Facilitating an involving and constructive dialogue with senior stakeholders to ensure needed resources are available.

The team waiting for you

Digital Foundation (DF) is part of the Digital, Data & IT (DD&IT) department - where we partner with the business to support digital transformation and innovation in all parts of the Novo Nordisk value chain. Our vision is to accelerate software development by taking ownership in developing and delivering software development platforms, tools, processes, and advisory services.

We strive to make software development teams more effective and efficient, by focusing three areas:

• Scaling software development capability
• Increasing focus on building valuable code
• Enabling faster releases & time to market

Our current team consists of a very diverse pool of talent, with colleagues from various backgrounds and 11 different nationalities – something we at DF are very proud of.

Which competencies to bring?

To succeed in this role, we expect you tick most of the following:

• At least 5+ years of software development experience, with strong working expertise building large complex back-end systems with Docker, Kubernetes, C#, .NET, Go
• Strong experience being a Product Owner, with great skills in managing stakeholders and building product roadmap.
• Experience in driving adoption and communicating platform value in collaboration with UX
• Experience in bridging highly technical DevTeam with the Business needs in both directions to ensure we prioritize and develop the right things.
• Previous hands-on experience with Azure Cloud and/or AWS Cloud, especially around PaaS/SaaS service offering and Containers as a service (CaaS)
• Ability to set direction and communicate a compelling purpose and vision with passion and urgency
• Previous experience with contributing to Open Source Software would be beneficial
• Experience with backlog management tools like Azure DevOps

Personally, we expect you to be proactive, highly collaborative, and capable of influencing stakeholders at all levels of the organization. We are looking for an open, transparent, and honest team player, ready to act as role model and empower others to take action.

Joining Novo Nordisk

Novo Nordisk is a global healthcare company headquartered in Denmark. For 100 years, we have been driving change to defeat diabetes and other serious chronic diseases. As a result, our treatments today benefit millions of people living with diabetes, obesity, and rare blood and endocrine diseases. We are proud of that.

We are proud of our people too, and we employ more than 57,000 bright and diverse minds in 80 offices worldwide. With us, your bright mind and commitment help us change lives for people worldwide. In exchange, we offer you a seat in a rewarding and purpose-driven culture where your professional and personal development is highly valued. That said, opportunities are many in Novo Nordisk.

Who to contact

If you have any questions about the job, please do not hesitate to contact our Digital Foundation Lead Tete Mensa-Annan, at NTAZ@novonordisk.com

Deadline

18 August 2024

Interviews will be conducted on an ongoing basis, so we encourage you to apply as soon as possible.

Feeling overwhelmed by job requirements and doubting if you're 100% qualified? Don't let it stop you! We encourage you to apply anyway, as your profile could surprise us and fit our needs better than you think. So take the leap and submit your application!

We commit to an inclusive recruitment process and equality of opportunity for all our job applicants. 

At Novo Nordisk we recognize that it is no longer good enough to aspire to be the best company in the world. We need to aspire to be the best company for the world and we know that this is only possible with talented employees with diverse perspectives, backgrounds and cultures. We are therefore committed to creating an inclusive culture that celebrates the diversity of our employees, the patients we serve and communities we operate in. Together, we’re life changing.