Senior Solution Owner
Volterra
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See open jobs at Volterra.See open jobs similar to "Senior Solution Owner" Khosla Ventures.At F5, we strive to bring a better digital world to life. Our teams empower organizations across the globe to create, secure, and run applications that enhance how we experience our evolving digital world. We are passionate about cybersecurity, from protecting consumers from fraud to enabling companies to focus on innovation.
Everything we do centers around people. That means we obsess over how to make the lives of our customers, and their customers, better. And it means we prioritize a diverse F5 community where each individual can thrive.
Why do you want to join our team?
At F5, we strive to bring a better digital world to life. Our teams empower organizations across the globe to create, secure, and run applications that enhance how we experience our evolving digital world. We are passionate about cybersecurity, from protecting consumers from fraud to enabling companies to focus on innovation.
Everything we do centers around people. That means we obsess over how to make the lives of our customers, and their customers, better. And it means we prioritize a diverse F5 community where each individual can thrive.
Position Summary
F5’s Technology Services team is transforming the way we deliver value to our organization. We focus on high-impact solutions, meeting our stakeholders where they are to uncover business needs and deliver results. Our teams go beyond the expected to help F5 move confidently through ambiguity and risk and drive more transformative outcomes.
F5 is seeking an experienced Senior Solution Owner who will lead-from-the-front to deliver ongoing business value through one or more empowered scrum teams. They partner with product management to understand the portfolio and business vision and, in concert with their teams, translate that vision into actionable user stories while leading a multi-functional development team to deliver valuable products on time and on budget. Our Sr Solution Owners are the connection between strategic work becoming actionable output through leading cross functional workstreams. This is a leadership role that is at the core of our delivery model and combines elements of product management, engineering and agile in order to deliver ongoing business value for our stakeholders.
What You’ll Do
Define and work within an agile project governance framework (e.g. establish team cadence, facilitate Scrum events, manage dependencies, issues and risks)
Guide and coach, the teams on Scrum and Agile practices consistent with team standards and helping them achieve their commitments and objectives day to day, sprint-to-sprint
Facilitate and organize Scrum ceremonies – help the team focus on goals, self-organize to achieve objectives, and ensure they fully understand the objectives and commitments
Lead continuous improvement efforts with teams by implementing take-aways from retrospectives and implementing concrete solutions to make the teams more efficient and improve delivery success
Be the functional and subject matter authority for the solution and act as the liaison between product, technology, business and governance teams
Partner with the Product Manager and Value Stream lead to craft the product roadmap and prioritize product backlog features
Guide business analysts who own authoring user stories that effectively communicate stakeholder requirements and that are easily consumed by software development teams
Collaborate with the engineering team, in particular the Solution Architect, to define and validate the technical approach, strategy and deliverables for the project
Drive delivery across multiple domains, e.g. define and validate the technical approach, strategy and deliverables with engineering leads; lead QE in the execution of test plans and verification of sprint feature releases; facilitate UAT and business acceptance
Lead, facilitate and attend meetings; provide project status reporting to management; assist with testing scenarios, and validate results
Support Value Stream leader and the budgeting process by being accountable for vendor contracts
Manage audits for applications and technologies
Provide coaching and actively helping grow teammates’ careers
Responsible for upholding F5’s Business Code of Ethics and for promptly reporting violations of the Code or other company policies.
Performs other related duties as assigned.
Leading more complex scrum teams or teams that have larger product scope and complexity
Responsible for upholding F5’s Business Code of Ethics and for promptly reporting violations of the Code or other company policies.
Performs other related duties as assigned.
The Job Description is intended to be a general representation of the responsibilities and requirements of the job. However, the description may not be all-inclusive, and responsibilities and requirements are subject to change.
What You’ll Bring
Ability to serve as a liaison between business and technical teams to drive effective, timely solutions that fulfill both strategic and operational needs
Demonstrated experience delivering, running, and scaling complex services and solutions
Experience working in a large scaled Agile environment, particularly familiar with Scrum practices
Strong organizational skills and the capability to interpret and handle a vast array of information
Excellent communication skills and an ability to build trust with team members and stakeholders
A real passion for building software solutions with state-of-the-art technology
Knowledge of the end-to-end software and hardware renewal process, including tracking, monitoring, and managing software licenses and subscriptions for our product portfolio.
Demonstrate cultural interest and sensitivity. Ability to functionally drive highly engaged teams globally.
Qualifications
8+ years managing software projects; must have at least 5+ years of experience leading teams of 5 or more as well as projects over 15,000 FTE hours, and/or $2M in budget
Coaching and mentorship experience, particularly in building communities of excellence to exchange best practices
Experience leading all Scrum events including sprint planning, daily Scrum, sprint review, and retrospective
Background in product ownership skills to tie product vision into an owned backlog of features and user stories
Our Values
At F5, we live and breathe our core values, Excellence, Integrity, Collaboration, Customer Dedication, Profitable Growth, Innovation, Employee Success, and Diversity. We help each other achieve our goals, value the diversity of ideas different backgrounds can bring, emphasize teamwork over rock-stars, work hard and most of all have fun.
We offer work/life integration programs like Freedom to Flex, dynamic employee inclusion groups, paid maternity/paternity leave, tuition assistance for professional development, a comprehensive mentoring program, rewards/recognition, and so much more. At F5, we truly do help each other thrive and it shows: F5 has been named one of the “World’s Most Admired Companies” by Fortune magazine for the past two years.
And this dedication to living our culture doesn’t just exist within our offices; it extends into our communities through Global Good initiatives such as employee matching, volunteer opportunities, and the F5 Foundation. Our employees are passionate about making a difference in the world.
This is a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity to become part of a company that’s on the forefront of transformation. And because we know that a more diverse F5 is a more powerful F5, we’re looking for smart, passionate, determined individuals to join us. If you make thoughtful decisions quickly, obsess over your customers’ needs, take ownership of your work (the mistakes as well as the successes), and embrace different perspectives by putting the human first, then we want to talk to you.
The Job Description is intended to be a general representation of the responsibilities and requirements of the job. However, the description may not be all-inclusive, and responsibilities and requirements are subject to change.
Please note that F5 only contacts candidates through F5 email address (ending with @f5.com) or auto email notification from Yello/Workday (ending with f5.com or @myworkday.com).
Equal Employment Opportunity
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