Hitachi – Vantara Looking for Product Owner – Solutions Engineering (1025621) at Waltham, MA  Full Time

The Role

We are seeking a Product Owner to join a fast-paced, highly collaborative engineering team. In this role, you will engage with Product Management and engineering leaders to help shape requirements for the engineering team. You will work with cross-functional engineering and corporate teams to deliver complex software solutions that include the combination of Hitachi offerings and strategic partner offerings. The Engineering team embraces a highly collaborative model that requires deep product ownership from start to finish for each project.

Responsibilities

• Own and drive numerous aspects of Hitachi Vantara Content portfolio solutions that integrate with strategic partner offerings.
• Research and understand our market, industry, competition, and strategic partnerships.
• Participate in reviews of business requirements and understand customer use cases & challenges.
• Engage with Product Management on requirements to ensure they meet the definition of ready so engineers can launch projects.
• Help your team map business requirements to how they will validate joint partner solutions.
• Assist with integrations, technology research, and reference solution design.
• Collaborate and work with cross-functional engineering team members to turn requirements into solution validation projects for compatibility and multiple use cases.
• Take ownership of user stories, solutions reference architectures, and solution best practices.
• Contribute to hands on engineering tasks and projects to deliver solution reference architecture & best practices whitepapers.
• Engage & collaborate with cross-functional Hitachi corporate teams, other Hitachi engineering teams, and strategic partner teams to bring joint solutions to market.
• Advocate for and evolve agile methodologies and engineering processes to help your team’s efficiency.

Experience and Skills

• 2+ years of hands-on contribution in software engineering or related field
• Understanding of engineering processes (including Agile methodologies)
• Advanced problem-solving skills
• Ability to convey complex technical information in a clear and concise manner.
• Tech savvy, detail oriented, and highly driven
• Outstanding interpersonal and communication skills
• Passion for delivering results and a positive attitude for success.
• Ability to handle and appropriately prioritize multiple projects and tasks.
• Relevant formal education, including BSCS or MSCS

The following experience would be a plus:

• hands on development experience
• ability to ramp up on new technologies quickly.
• experience leading teams and/or projects, or guide teams through ambiguous projects

Our Company

Hitachi Vantara is part of the Global Hitachi family. We balance innovation with an open, friendly culture and the backing of a long-established parent company, known for its ethical reputation. We guide customers from what’s now to what’s next by unlocking the value of their data and applications to solve their digital challenges, achieving outcomes that benefit both business and society.

Our people are our biggest asset, they drive our innovation advantage as we strive to offer a flexible and collaborative workplace where they can thrive. Diversity of thought is welcomed, and our employee base is represented by several active Employee Resource Group communities. We offer industry leading benefits packages (flexible working, generous pension and private healthcare) and promote a creative and inclusive culture. If driving real change gives you a sense of pride and you are passionate about powering social good, we’d love to hear from you.

Our Values

We strive to create an inclusive environment for all and are open to considering home working, compressed/flexible hours, and flexible arrangements. Get in touch with us to explore how we might be able to accommodate your specific needs.

We are proud to say we are an equal opportunity employer and welcome all applicants for employment without attention to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, veteran, or disability status. With Japanese roots going back over 100 years, our culture is founded on the values of our parent company expressed as the Hitachi Spirit:

Wa – Harmony, Trust, Respect
Makoto – Sincerity, Fairness, Honesty, Integrity
Kaitakusha-Seishin – Pioneering Spirit, Challenge
We are an equal opportunity employer. All applicants will be considered for employment without attention to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, veteran or disability status.