Product Owner Azure Cloud

[xxxxx] is looking for a Product Owner to take our Azure Cloud Platform to the next level. We are a mature cloud organisation with a rising number of production systems running on our Azure Platform, on an ambitious growth journey, and consider Cloud as a strategically important enabler. Our current focus is to build the supporting structure and resilience of the platform, to honour the requirements of these mission critical production systems, and supply our business with cutting edge technologies like AI/ML for increased pace of our drug discovery processes. Are you interested and feel like this job is made for you? Then Apply now!
Let’s talk about the role
As our Azure Product Owner your main focus is to ensure that Azure as a platform is ready and aligned with the future needs of [xxxxx]. The aim is to enable our research sites, our offices, and our production sites to develop, test, operate and manage cloud solutions in Azure Cloud in the leanest, automated, and most stable manor.
Your key responsibilities are:

Co-create vision and roadmap: Together with your product team and Product Manager you create the vision and roadmap and communicate to the relevant stakeholders.

Represent the customer: You need to understand the current and future needs of our business areas, and bring forward their perspectives to your product team, to ensure their needs are met by our deliverables along with the timeline.

Stakeholder management: You need know your stakeholders, build strong relations, and ensure a proactive and professional dialogue to understand new needs, changing requirements as well as inspire the business to utilize your products and services together with our Cloud Centre of Excellence.

Prioritize backlog and accept stories: You build, own, share and prioritize the backlog and are comfortable to make difficult decisions when needed. Together with the scrum master you have a leading role in events such as PI-planning, Demos / Retrospective, and Back-log refinement.

Approve and reject deliverables: You are ultimately accountable for the quality of the Azure Platform as a product and the deliverables from your team covering both development/modernization as well as the stable, secure and compliant operations.

The Azure Platform team consist of 13 people covering a scrum master, senior cloud architects, cloud engineers, cloud developers and operations professionals. The product team is responsible for designing and building Azure landing zones at global enterprise level with a multi-subscription Azure environment that accounts for scale, security, templating, governance, compliance, networking, and identity. The team governs the Azure platform in NN, performing tasks such as provisioning Azure subscriptions, enforcing service security requirements, creating compliance tests and deploying and managing shared infrastructure. The team collaborates closely with our colleagues from Global Information Security, to continually improve the security posture and compliance of all Azure workloads.
What we scout for

Academic degree at bachelor level or above within business administration, IT or similar and 3+ years of experience working with cloud

Hands on experience with Product Ownership – defining, scoping, strategizing, and breaking down complex needs to distinct products - either from a product owner role or similar, in preferably global enterprise company

Several years of experience with implementation of Cloud services and Azure Platform at consumer level

You can understand and map business needs and transform these to features and technical deliverables in an inspiring way to your product team.

You have experience with Agile methodologies and tools and are familiar with the concepts of Scrum, Kanban, Prioritization etc. A product Owner certification is a benefit but not a requirement.

As a person you have a strong passion for creating results and find it natural to take a leading role with aim to stay ahead on industry trends and are curious toward new services and technologies. You can set direction and communicate a compelling purpose and vision with passion and urgency on all levels of the organisation. Integrity and trustworthiness characterise your personality and the way you handle tasks and relations.
The team waiting for you
The position is based in Cloud and Corporate Infrastructure (C&CI), part of Global IT Operations. In C&CI we have successfully established an effective, secure, and compliant cloud infrastructure, running on both AWS and Azure. We have a combined strategic focus on enabling innovation while ensuring stable operations. In our Cloud Product area, you become 1 out 7 Product Owners all working with different aspects of Cloud from Platforms to IAM with whom you will collaborate and align with together with our Cloud Product Manager. In addition, you collaborate closely with your scrum master, senior architects, and the delivery team to drive the results. Joining the [xxxxx] family
At [xxxxx], we don’t wait for change. We drive it. We’re a dynamic company in an even more dynamic industry, and we know that what got us to where we are today is not necessarily what will make us successful in the future. We recognize the importance of core IT capabilities within infrastructure, cloud, data management, and platforms to enable the change, digitization, and future growth of our business. We know that life is anything but linear and balancing what is important at different stages of our career is a prerequisite for your success. That’s why we make room for diverse life situations, always putting people first. At [xxxxx] we invest both in your personal and professional development and offer highly attractive career opportunities.
If you have any questions
If you want to know more, please reach out to Cloud Product Manager Søren Nicolaisen at +[xxxxx]or Hiring Manager Emma Jeppesen +[xxxxx]
Deadline
16 June 2024 We commit to an inclusive recruitment process and equality of opportunity for all our job applicants. At [xxxxx] 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.