Senior Software Product Owner

Build a meaningful career
At LifeWorks, we offer more than career opportunities, we provide career opportunities to make meaningful contributions to people’s lives. The extraordinary expertise of a more than 7,000-strong workforce is harnessed to support the employees and families of the organizations we serve. Our innovative programs have a lasting impact on the health, financial security and productivity of 24,000 workplaces.
As an Senior Software Product Owner, you will be responsible for recommending and defining solution requirements across different web applications. You will lead the development of an integration roadmap that will align our products, services, and contracts to increase efficiency and reduce waste. Working as a liaison between business and management, and the support and development teams, resolving needs and providing product direction to the development team and product stakeholders.
As a platform expert, you will also work closely with the enterprise and solution architects to ensure the system and its integrations optimally support the changing business needs and growth. As someone who can work across the business and IT, you will be aware, in detail, of the other systems and business processes impacted by your platforms and related integrations.
Skills required:

• Leadership and strategic thinking
• Ideally, you will have 8-10 years' experience serving as a consultant both in implementation and solution design competencies
• Agile delivery expertise
• Ability to manage complex project situations while working with regionally dispersed and diverse teams and projects, including strong communication, organization and facilitating meetings in a fast paced, goal oriented and modern virtual setting
• Backlog management and prioritisation
• Experience with web implementation and software deployment practices and supporting the project team through the implementation change process
• Ability to understand complex processes and understand how to transform them to increase efficiency and reduce waste
• Stakeholder management

Nice to have skills:

• LEAN practitioner
• A background in health services would be ideal, along with an understanding of best practices within a professional services industry focus
• Azure DevOps

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Fulfilling work that matters
LifeWorks is in the business of helping organizations help their people and in the process, we strive to elevate ours. We're always looking for talented professionals and strategic leaders looking to make a difference in the lives of the people we serve. We appreciate the interest of every applicant; however, we contact only those selected for an interview.
At LifeWorks, we are committed to putting our people first. Our priority is to optimize the health and productivity of our people. In light of COVID-19, our company continues to monitor the global situation and following local guidance in each of our communities to ensure the health and wellbeing of our employees. Safety is our highest priority, and while the goal is to ultimately return to the office, we are currently working remotely and are connecting with candidates through virtual interviews, recruitment events, and information sessions. We are excited to connect with you virtually, and look forward to receiving your application.