Scrum Product Owner

Merksworth
4 days ago
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Are you an experienced SCRUM Master / Product Owner passionate about working with cutting edge technology supporting safety critical solutions with the Defence sector? If so, the following permanent role might be for you!

My client is a market leader and well known brand operating within the Submarines business responsible for the design, manufacture, supply and through-life support of nuclear propulsion-related products and systems in support of the Royal Navy's submarine fleet.

An exciting opportunity has arisen for an Integrated Product Owner to join their Product Development Team in Glasgow.

You will work as a leader in their safety critical product development team, delivering a complete product design through a stringent design process. You will be the Product Owner for a development team using agile Scrum methods to develop high integrity FPGA based applications adopting the latest state-of-the-art toolsets. Training will be provided where required to equip you with the skills necessary to develop requirements, architectures, designs, HDL code, associated tests and supporting infrastructure for applications essential for the protection and monitoring of a nuclear propulsion plant.

You will be responsible for following and overseeing a safety critical development lifecycle and will be responsible for:

Developing requirements, from equipment to implementation level, for FPGA based designs
Developing and Verifying VHDL code
Supporting hardware-based testing of your designs
Developing and communicating product goals and roadmaps
Creating, ordering, prioritizing and communicating a product backlog
Solving product related problems, making decisions, completing trade-off analysis to stay on track towards business deliverable commitments
Representing stakeholders and provide clear leadership for assigned Scrum teams.You:

Qualified to Degree level (or equivalent experience) in Electronics Engineering, Computer Science, or related discipline
Certified Scrum Product Owner
Experienced in designing and verifying designs expressed using VHDL
Ability to provide clear, concise and accurate technical reports
Ability manage and resolve ambiguity on a technically complex productExperience of the following, whilst not essential, would be extremely beneficial:

Tools:
Azure DevOps
Git
IBM® Engineering Requirements DOORS
Siemens - QuestaSim / ModelSim, Questa PropCheck, FormalPro
Synopsys - Synplify Pro
Standards, Frameworks and Techniques
Knowledge and experience of safety standards such as IEC 61513, IEC 62566, IEC 26262, DO‑254
UVM
Constrained Random Testing
Formal Verification
Languages:
VHDL, SystemVerilog, TCL, PythonThe package:

You'll receive a very competitive salary (£££ offered depends on level of experience) and other benefits including pension, life assurance and 25 days' (plus bank holidays). In addition there are other non-tangible benefits including a commitment to training, development and career development.*** Please note this role require UK defence security clearance to SC level as a minimum, you must be SC clearable to apply for this role

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