Product Manager

**Make an impact with NTT DATA**
Join a company that is pushing the boundaries of what is possible. We are renowned for our technical excellence and leading innovations, and for making a difference to our clients and society. Our workplace embraces diversity and inclusion - it’s a place where you can grow, belong and thrive.

**Your day at NTT DATA**

**What you'll be doing**

**Key Responsibilities**:

- Fully understands the products vision, roadmap and growth opportunities to enable onward articulation into the development team.
- Plans and prioritizes the different products features backlogs and development for the offers/products.
- Provides backlog management, iteration planning, and elaboration of the user stories, according to business value or ROI.
- Provides an active role in mitigating impediments impacting successful team completion of release and iteration goals.
- Establishes components and features acceptance criteria, accepts the same into the baseline.
- Follows business competitors and the industry and keeps abreast with Agile/Scrum/SAFe best practices and new trends and seeks to relentlessly improve the team operations.
- Our Product Manage will also lead the different projects governances, control the budgets of the same and she/he will provide project leadership to resolve customer escalations if required. Ensuring clear and concise communications to all stakeholders.
- Provides pre-sales support by working with sales teams to scope and cost a project or program solution which includes the completion of a proposal. This may include Client presentations of our delivery approach as part of a tender process.
- May indirectly manage a team of project managers and implementation resources. Provides guidance, mentorship, and supports team to achieve required results.
- Performs any other related task as required.

**Knowledge and Attributes**:

- Advanced knowledge of product development in an ITC industry.
- Advanced understanding of iterative development.
- Powerful communication aptitude, with an innate ability to say “no” in a way that will not discourage or upset the business.
- Effective conflict resolution skills
- Considerable ability to empower teams - through strong collaboration and knowledge brokering.
- Ability to enable value creation and ensure value commitments to delivery are met.
- Advanced understanding of backlog tracking, burndown metrics, velocity, and task definition.
- Ability to relate to and integrate with alternate development methodologies (for example, waterfall).
- Be conversant in DevOps practices and understand strong relationship and bi-directional dependency required with deployment teams.

**Academic Qualifications and Certifications**:

- Master's degree or equivalent in Computer Science, Information Technology or related field preferred.
- Advantageous certifications - from technology providers like Google, AWS, Microsoft
- Advantageous certifications - SAFe Product Owner / Product Manager Certification, SAFe Scrum Master, SAFe for Teams, SAFe DevOps, Professional scrum product owner (PSPO) or certified scrum product owner (CSPO), Program Management Professional (PgMP).
- ITIL Service Management certification will be a plus.

**Required Experience**:

- Advanced experience in Product Management and Project Management. At least 10 years' experience in similar role within a large scale (preferably multi
- national) technology services environment.
- Successful track record in building IT Business Oriented solutions.
- Advanced experience working in Agile approaches such as XP, Kanban, Crystal, FDD.
- Advanced experience managing multiple teams and product roadmaps.

**Workplace type**:
Hybrid Working

**About NTT DATA**

**Equal Opportunity Employer