At Alstom, we offer you the opportunity to unleash your potential and reinvent yourself. As a future employee, you will have a unique opportunity to drive our organization forward while continuing to build your career and contribute to the expanding growth of the global railway industry.Today, the railway industry is characterized by strong and sustained growth across the world, driven by environmental challenges, population growth, urbanization, and increasing demands for mobility. With €8 billion in sales and over 75,000 employees based in over 70 countries, Alstom develops and markets the most complete range of systems, equipment, and services in the railway sector.More information about Alstom can be found at: www.alstom.comSmart Transportation is a strategic program that aims at developing Alstom new offering in mobility. This set of initiatives will mainly consist in new digital solutions but will also cover some other “smart” solutions in energy efficiency, traffic operations, or passenger services.To achieve this objective Alstom aims at being at the forefront of digital revolution by developing expertise in data platforms, machine learning, data science, video analysis, sensor design, roaming data capture, etc. and building its digital assets.
We are currently seeking a dynamic and experienced Product Owner / Product Manager to lead the development and management of our centralized DevOps team. The successful candidate will play a critical role in defining the product vision, strategy, and roadmap, ensuring alignment with business objectives and driving the product to success.
Product Vision and Strategy:
- Develop and communicate a clear product vision and strategy for the centralized DevOps team.
- Align product strategy with business objectives and internal stakeholder’s needs, ensuring competitive differentiation and customer satisfaction.
- Define, prioritize, and maintain the product roadmap, including short-term and long-term goals.
- Ensure all documentation is up to date and accurately reflects the product vision and strategy.
Stakeholder Engagement and Communication:
- Act as the primary liaison between business stakeholders and technical teams.
- Engage with customers, executive teams, industry partners, research institutes, and other relevant parties to gather requirements, understand needs, and ensure alignment.
- Communicate product plans, progress, changes, and risks effectively to all relevant parties.
- Prepare comprehensive product documentation, including user manuals, training materials, and release notes.
Requirements Definition and Management:
- Translate business requirements into detailed user stories and technical specifications, ensuring completeness and clarity.
- Prioritize the backlog based on business value, technical feasibility, and strategic importance.
- Continually refine and adjust requirements based on feedback, market changes, and technical inputs.
- Document all requirements thoroughly to maintain a clear and organized record.
Product Development and Delivery:
- Lead the agile development process, facilitating sprint planning, reviews, retrospectives, and daily stand-ups.
- Ensure the development team understands the product goals and works efficiently towards achieving them.
- Resolve any impediments or blockers that arise and mediate between competing priorities.
- Document technical solutions and implementation details to support ongoing and future development efforts.
Quality Assurance and Testing:
- Define acceptance criteria for features and enhancements, ensuring they meet business objectives and quality standards.
- Collaborate with QA teams to conduct thorough testing and validation.
- Ensure continuous improvement in product quality through iterative refinements and feedback loops.
- Maintain thorough documentation of testing procedures, results, and any issues identified.
Performance Monitoring and Optimization:
- Monitor key performance indicators (KPIs) to track product success and identify areas for improvement.
- Gather and analyse user feedback, utilizing data-driven approaches to inform product decisions.
- Work closely with the technical team to optimize performance, scalability, and reliability of the platform.
- Document performance benchmarks, optimization techniques, and any changes implemented.
AI Capability Integration:
- Develop a strategic plan for incorporating DevOps and DevSecOps into the DEVX platform.
- Collaborate with SW architects and Software designers to define and integrate AI in the DEVX platform
- Ensure AI integration aligns with overall product goals and enhances customer value.
- Measure KPIs for API integrations, implementation steps, and broadcast the results to the wider forum.
Documentation and Training:
- Prepare comprehensive product documentation, including user manuals, training materials, and release notes.
- Conduct training sessions for internal teams and external stakeholders as needed.
Process and Improvement:
- Apply process, standards, methods, and tools applicable to the métier.
- Organize the program development process and its continuous improvement adaptable to Agile and DevOps ethos.
- Prepare, share, and maintain the Engineering Management Plan together with the program core team and program support team.
- Address program development strategy, technical risks, and technical referents identification.
- Review other engineering plans of the programs to ensure efficiency & consistency with the Engineering Management Plan (EMP).
- Organize capture and activities for continuous improvement and production of métier Key Performance Indicators (KPIs).
Program Development Leardership:
- Interface with the Program manager on the program development activities to deliver the program items according to the QCD commitment.
- Coordinate the program development team activities.
- Ensure the product/system reaches the committed performance levels.
- Develop design-to-cost approaches to decrease system/product deployment cost and product unit cost.
- Ensure application of decision-making and validate decisions with program stakeholders.
- Organize, participate, and follow-up on Design Reviews and Peer Reviews of engineering work products.
- Support other métiers and ensure the link between them.
Configuration and Technical Interface:
- Manage the program’s interface on technical matters with the support of Lead Architect and Lead Software Architect.
- Support users for program needs definition and issues.
- Coordinate consistency between program baselines deliveries and long-term needs.
- Manage User Groups/user community and participate in program reviews for technical support and reporting.
- Manage the Delivery Master List (DML), documentation reviews, requirement management, and CCBs (internal and external).
- Organize delivery reviews and ensure the program items deliveries in configuration.
- Lead hardware change and definition, validate configurations under PLM, and validate hardware evolution impacts.
- Support the Program Manager for engineering cost and planning management.
- Provide QCD analyses & estimations on evolutions together with the program core and engineering teams.
- Liaise with projects and tender activities for evolutions & anomalies analysis, roadmap, and documentation support.
- Alert and report on any events/risks that may impact program development and associated QCD commitments.
- Validate material selection and procurement activities with the Program Manager.
- Promote the Alstom Code of Ethics and adhere to the highest standards of ethical conduct.
Education:
- Bachelor's or master’s degree in Computer science, Engineering, Business, or a related field.
Experience:
- Total 15+ years’ experience with minimum of 5 years of experience in product management, with a focus on managing DevOps / Developer Experience tools.
- Experience in managing complex Software products and integrating DevOps and DevSecOps into software products.
- Proven experience in prioritizing and managing product backlogs.
- Experience in stakeholder engagement and managing cross-functional teams.
- Proven track record of delivering products that meet customer needs and drive business value.
Required Qualifications
- Proven experience as a Product Owner in large-scale agile or DevOps projects.
- Strong understanding of DevOps tools and practices (e.g., Jenkins, GitLab, Docker, Kubernetes, Terraform).
- Experience working in a scaled agile environment (SAFe, LeSS, or Nexus).
- Excellent communication, stakeholder management, and decision-making skills.
- Technical background or familiarity with cloud platforms (AWS, Azure, GCP) is a plus.
- Certification in Product Ownership (CSPO, SAFe PO/PM) preferred.
Preferred Qualifications
- Experience in enterprise-scale DevOps or cloud transformation projects.
- Technical background in software engineering or systems architecture.
Skills and Competencies:
- Agile Product Ownership: Strong experience in backlog management, user story creation, and sprint planning.
- DevOps Expertise: Familiarity with CI/CD pipelines, infrastructure as code, containerization, and cloud-native tools.
- Scaled Agile Frameworks: Experience with SAFe, LeSS, or Nexus environments.
- Stakeholder Management: Ability to engage and align diverse technical and business stakeholders.
- Technical Acumen: Understanding of cloud platforms (AWS, Azure, GCP), microservices, and automation tools (e.g., Jenkins, GitLab, Docker, Kubernetes).
- Analytical Thinking: Skilled in defining KPIs, interpreting metrics, and making data-driven decisions.
- Communication: Excellent verbal and written communication skills for cross-functional collaboration.
- Product Vision & Strategy: Define and communicate the product roadmap aligned with DevOps goals such as CI/CD, automation, observability, and infrastructure as code.
- Backlog Management: Own and prioritize the product backlog, ensuring clarity, alignment with business objectives, and readiness for development sprints.
- Stakeholder Engagement: Collaborate with engineering, operations, security, and business stakeholders to gather requirements and validate solutions.
- Scaled Agile Coordination: Work within a SAFe (Scaled Agile Framework) or similar environment to synchronize with multiple agile teams and release trains.
- DevOps Enablement: Champion DevOps principles and practices, including continuous integration, automated testing, deployment pipelines, and monitoring.
- Metrics & Feedback: Define KPIs and success metrics; use data-driven insights to iterate and improve product features and delivery processes.
- Risk & Compliance: Ensure solutions meet enterprise security, compliance, and governance standards.
You don’t need to be a train enthusiast to thrive with us. We guarantee that when you step onto one of our trains with your friends or family, you’ll be proud. If you’re up for the challenge, we’d love to hear from you!
Important to note
As a global business, we’re an equal-opportunity employer that celebrates diversity across the 63 countries we operate in. We’re committed to creating an inclusive workplace for everyone.
