Job Title:     Digital Workplace Product Owner

Location:     Farnborough, Malvern, Bristol or Portsmouth

Package:     Highly Competitive Salary + Benefits Package

Role Type:   Full-time / Permanent
Role ID:       SF17252

Be part of the QinetiQ journey. Join us as a Digital Workplace Product Owner where you will have the opportunity to work with cutting-edge technology and many of the industry’s most brilliant minds.

The Role

As a Digital Workplace Product Owner, you will have a role that is out of the ordinary. You would join the Digital Enterprise Services Product team, in this role you will be responsible for the vision, roadmap, development and ongoing operation of your Product(s) deployed across the enterprise.

Day-to-day you will:

• You will lead a team of specialists with responsibility for the user satisfaction, value, cost, availability and lifecycle of your products, ensuring duplication, inefficiency and obsolescence is driven out and risk is effectively managed
• You will establish and maintain excellent relationships with Business Owner(s) and key stakeholder groups for your Products, and use those relationships to understand and optimise the value your Products deliver to the organisation.
• You will work closely with the in-sector support and Service Management teams to ensure that your Products are deployed, operated and consumed effectively across the business.
• You will collaborate with other Product Owners, including those delivering components or platforms that your Products depend on or depend on yours to deliver an integrated, cost-effective service to the organisation and/ or its customers.

This role is full-time, 37 hours per week, and can be based from any of our main UK sites, with adaptive working options.

Essential experience of the Digital Workplace Product Owner:

• Strong experience of detailed experience in IT services within an enterprise level IT environment
• Experience of full-lifecycle accountability for a technology or product domain delivered in a complex business environment
• Knowledge and awareness of Microsoft Cloud platforms (M365, Azure, Identity and Information Security)
• An ability to turn business strategy into practical direction for a technical team. 
• Awareness and understanding of IT & Corporate systems and solutions, current trends and emerging technologies
• Excellent knowledge of relevant applications / platforms and product user rights

Qualifications for the Digital Workplace Product Owner:
We value difference and we do not have a fixed idea when it comes to background or education, provided you can show the required level of experience and willingness to learn, then we would like to hear from you.

Please note that all applicants must hold, or be able to achieve Security Clearance as a minimum.

UKSV National Security Vetting Solution: guidance for applicants - GOV.UK (www.gov.uk)

Why join QinetiQ?

As we continue to grow into new markets around the world, there’s never been a more exciting time to join QinetiQ. The formula for success is our appetite for innovation and having the courage to take on a wide variety of complex challenges.

You’ll experience a unique working environment where teams from different backgrounds, disciplines and experience enjoy collaborating widely and openly as we undertake this exciting and rewarding journey. Through effective teamwork, and pulling together, you’ll get to experience what happens when we all share different perspectives, blend disciplines, and link technologies; constantly discovering new ways of solving complex problems in a diverse and inclusive environment where you can be authentic, feel valued and realise your full potential. Read more about our diverse and inclusive workplace culture here.  

Joining QinetiQ offers you an opportunity to work on a broad range of interesting defence-based projects with vast career progression across a global organisation in addition to competitive personal and professional benefits.  You’ll receive a highly competitive salary and benefits package: our basic salaries are very attractive as we constantly review what’s happening in the market. The range of benefits that we offer include, adaptive and flexible working, generous holiday entitlements, Health Cash Plan, Private Medical Insurance and Dental Insurance and much more. 

About QinetiQ

As a company of over 6,000 dedicated professionals, we are a world-centre of excellence in research and development and act as a catalyst for fast-track innovation, offering outstanding experimentation facilities, and technical, engineering and scientific expertise. QinetiQ is made up of dedicated experts in defence, aerospace, security and related markets, all working together to explore new ways of protecting what matters most. Being part of QinetiQ means being central to the safety and security of the world around us. Partnering with our customers, we help to save lives; reduce risks to society; and maintain the global infrastructure on which we all depend. Come and find out how you can play a role.

Please note that many roles in QinetiQ are subject to national security vetting. Applicants that already hold the appropriate level of vetting may be able to transfer it upon appointment, subject to approval. A number of roles are also subject to restrictions on access to information that mean factors such as nationality, previous nationalities held and the country in which you were born may have an effect on the roles that you can be employed in.