Software Product Ownership Engineer

Software Product Engineer

Location: Hengelo, Netherlands

Department: Software Engineering

Rate: € competitive hourly rate

Job type: Contract

say HI* to tackling complex technical challenges in an inspiring work environment

Join our international, multidisciplinary team at Thales Nederland working on the design of new products and for managing software and hardware development.

About the job:

As product owner, your primary responsibility is to oversee the development of complex software models by the MINT sub-team. This model is delivered to our customers to diagnose our complex systems, ensuring maintenance is simple and preferably predictable, and enabling remote assistance if necessary. This will involve:

• Co-lead a scrum team and support the team to work efficiently and effectively.

• Use your experience to prioritize between needs from multiple projects and align these with the long-term development goals.

• Assess if there are enough skilled people in the team to be able to meet the demands and prepare for the next challenges ahead

• On a longer term, you will be asked to provide consultancy and (technical) support to the other specialty engineering sub-teams

What you’ll bring:

• Creative and proactive, excellent stakeholder management skills

• Communicate effectively and with strong skills (listening, asking the right questions and expressing yourself in an open, professional way)

• Proven experience in product ownership (or equivalent) at least 5 years or more recent experience in the role of product owner

• Hands-on experience with JIRA (scrum / Kanban)

• Result oriented with a high sense of responsibility and accountability

• You like to work as and with a team, able to convince, inspire, coach and support other team members

• You are able to understand your technical clients and application owners’ needs

• Fluency in spoken and written English and Dutch

• Candidate needs to live in the Netherlands or nearby

• Candidate needs to work at the office in Hengelo for at least 3 days a week, Wednesday is obligated

• Minimum hours per week 36

What you’ll gain:

Wherever your passion lies, Thales can help you make the best use of your skills and creativity. As a contractor at Thales, you can expect to experience:

• A challenging job in a great team within our high-tech, innovative work environment

• Freedom for initiative and good ideas;

• Room for personal and professional growth within our organization;

• Valuable international collaboration with coworkers from 68 different countries around the globe;

• A comfortable work space in a modern environment, with a focus on flexibility and the right work life balance

About Thales

Thales offers untold opportunities to take part in fascinating projects and overcome ambitious human and technological challenges. As a contractor, you’ll be part of a community of experts bringing together innovations from the bottom of the oceans to the depths of space and cyberspace. Collaborating to find solutions to the biggest challenges in the most difficult conditions.

Drawing on a diversity of expertise, perspectives and cultures, we are able to provide the best possible solutions to our customers. Together, we can harness the extraordinary power of technology to build a future we can all trust.

Randstad, as the EMEA Thales talent acquisition partner, is responsible for finding and contracting talent for the contingent roles at Thales. If you are selected for a role you will be engaged or employed by one of the Randstad recruitment companies in EMEA and will not be an employee of Thales.

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