Job Title: Technical Product Owner - ContractJob ID: CV21156627Location: Vancouver, BCOverview:With a strong history of innovation for over 100+ years, our client, Canada's largest diversified natural resource company is looking to reinvent themselves. Being part of the RACE team, you'll be leading the charge of a company-wide renewal of technology and infrastructure – a high-tech transformation of mining into the next generation. Reporting to the Product Lead, Processing, the Technical Product Owner, RACE is responsible for developing and driving the product vision and strategy. They will provide constant feedback to the team and help the team to follow this vision. Their biggest challenge is to ensure that the team knows with accurate detail what they are expected to build. This TPO must develop a deep understanding of the target market/industry, build close relationships with key stakeholders, and define the business strategy for the product.What you will be doing:

• Be a courageous safety leader, adhere to and sponsor safety and environmental rules and procedures
• Set ambitious and clear product vision in collaboration with key stakeholders and the delivery team and communicate it effectively to ensure alignment across the program
• Engage with internal and external stakeholders to consult and inform product direction and ensure development is aligned with product vision
• Effectively steward delivery by adopting and continuously improving Agile practices and iterating on the team process to match the evolving organizational context and technology landscape
• Engage with a diverse group of end-users such as data scientists, data engineers, application developers, and operations team members facilitating requirements gathering and prioritization
• Work closely with platform power users to identify their needs in the area of streamlined access to data and self-service analytics and translate them into platform requirements
• Ensure customer-driven platform design working closely with UX designers to map out user journeys and jobs to be done, considering user pain points & usability test results, and establishing an effective feedback mechanism to ensure end-user satisfaction
• Anticipate bottlenecks, provide escalation management, anticipate and make trade-offs, and balance the business needs versus technical constraints
• Work with Technical Leads and Architects to ensure solutions are scalable, modular, and operationally mature
• Collaborate closely with a product management community of practice to share knowledge and elevate product practices across teams

What you must have:

• 6+ years of experience in a technical or a Product Owner role
• Ability to take large, complex projects and break them down into manageable pieces, then deliver them in a timely manner.
• Experience leading large software projects with a variety of stakeholders in all areas of the technical spectrum.
• Experience in balancing requirements across multiple Agile development teams.
• Proven ability to effectively communicate with highly technical end-users
• A deep understanding of big data, machine learning, business intelligence, data analytics, and advanced visualizations is highly desirable
• Ability to maintain awareness and knowledge of relevant technology stack and participate in technical design discussions and solutions
• Passion for creating amazing developer and data scientist experiences
• Critical thinker with a passion to challenge the status quo, finding new solutions and drive out-of-the-box ideas
• Previous experience with enterprise data platforms and APIs would be an asset
• Mining industry experience would be an asset
• A valid driver's license might be required
• Ability to travel 5% of the time

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