Product Owner Logistics
Join newly established teams, working in a unique and complex environment using modern scaled agile ways of working to deliver technology to support the NZDF.
The team:
The Logistics Tower works collaboratively with the domain owner, Defence Logistics Command (DLC) and NZDF Single Services (Army, Navy and Air Force), to design, deliver and manage products that enable the NZDF’s logistics function. The Tower is responsible for sustaining current state technology and delivering and evolving the NZDF’s future state enterprise logistics capability.
The role:
As a Product Owner, you will work closely with the Product Manager Logistics, Architect and other Product Owners to manage planning, delivery and changes being completed by Product teams within the Logistics Tower. Your will be responsible to ensure your teams support the priorities agreed with the business that will deliver the NZDF’s vision and strategy. The Product owner will ensure the team focus on delivery of agreed output and will derive a continued pursuit of excellence within your team, within the wider service portfolio directorate and across the CIS Branch Product Owner cohort. They will define the technology roadmaps for the products within the Logistics Tower, prioritise and deconflict operational and technical requirements in collaboration with the Product Manager and the business, and manage the overall delivery processes.
Technical skills:
Knowledge of or exposure to a combination of the following:
Clearly understand current priorities for the Logistic Tower, and ensure the overall roadmap and activities completed within each Sprint and Programme Increment will achieve the agreed outcomes.
Ensure a culture of ongoing relentless improvement is reflected in the team roadmaps
Understanding how technology will support overall delivery of the agreed objectives
Understand future priorities in the strategic roadmap (owned by the Product Manager) to maximise efficiency’s in work and continually allow delivery outcomes to be maximised.
Understanding detailed integration of new functionality into existing complex environments and landscapes
Have exposure to Application Decommissioning and Consolidation, including planning for the approach to system, data and user migrations across platforms and technologies.
A broad based cloud and on premise software environment experience, including experience with SAP Logistics modules or other large ERP systems
Collaborative interpersonal style, including clear experience in managing customer expectations.
Ability to work within a matrix team model, especially regarding the ability to flow to work through expanding and reducing team numbers dependent of prioritised workloads.
We recommend you visit absoluteit.co.nz/nzdf to find out more about what it’s like to work for CIS Branch, and about working for NZDF. Here, you will also be able to view all roles that are currently open to applications across the different areas of CIS Branch. Roles will be progressively added to this website as they open to applications.
For further information please contact Amanda Halka at AbsoluteIT on (04) 499 7848.
This role closes Tuesday 9th February at 9am.
BEFORE YOU APPLY
Please note: Applicants must be legally entitled to work in New Zealand (NZ) and be able to obtain and maintain the required level of NZ Government security clearance for the position applied for.
The majority of roles in the CIS branch within NZDF require a high level security clearance at either Secret or Top Secret Level. The minimum citizenship and residency criteria for the high level security clearances to be granted by the NZ Defence Force are as follows:
• most preferably a NZ citizen, who has resided in this country continuously for at least the last ten years, OR
• is a citizen of, and/or has resided continuously in one or more of the following countries for the last ten years: either Australia, Canada, NZ, the United Kingdom (UK) or the United States of America (USA); and has a background history that is verifiable and can be assessed as appropriate by the NZ Security Intelligence Service (NZSIS) towards a recommendation of suitability for a security clearance at this level.
Please note we also have a small number of roles requiring Top Secret Special clearance. These roles require fifteen years continuous residence in the above countries.
If you do not meet these minimum criteria, we will not be able to accept your application. Use this online tool to self-check your eligibility for a security clearance. Please note that this tool is not part of the formal security clearance process: *****
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