Embedded Software Engineering Product Owner

Rockwell Automation is a global technology leader focused on helping the world's manufacturers be more productive, sustainable, and agile. With more than 28,000 employees who make the world better every day, we know we have something special. Behind our customers - amazing companies that help feed the world, provide life-saving medicine on a global scale, and focus on clean water and green mobility -our people are energized problem solvers that take pride in how thework we do changes the world for the better.

We welcome all makers, forward thinkers, and problem solvers who are looking for a place to do their best work. And if that's you we would love to have you join us!

Job Description

Rockwell Automation is looking for a creative engineer to join our global Software and Control organization in Milwaukee, Wisconsin as an embedded software engineering Agile product owner. You will be part of a new product development team, with a focus on building the future of our Human Machine Interface products.

You will have a strong background in software development and an interest in expanding their role beyond day-to-day development activities. Our product owners work closely with product management, engineering management, software architects and the development teams to define how new features should be built and leads the breakdown of work into achievable pieces that teams can take on. A strong understanding of software development process, architecture, design, and in an unfamiliar code base is important for this role. Given tightly coupled hardware and software in our products, previous embedded software experience.

• Develop a strong technical understanding of Rockwell's Human Machine Interface products, use-cases, embedded software architecture, design, and code base.
• Work with user-facing product teams to understand customer requirements for new products and features, set priority and scope, and develop data-driven roadmaps to release milestones.
• Engage embedded software architects to understand new feature feasibility, architectural direction, and initial sizing estimates.
• Work with development teams to validate design direction, decompose features into a backlog of Agile stories, and refine those stories into sprint-ready tasks
• Help the development team identify critical work to prioritize, and less-critical work which can be deferred.
• Present recommendations to sponsors for approval based on team input, showing tradeoffs between product capabilities, effort, schedule, and cost.
• Provide input to the Program Increment (PI) planning context, PI objective definition, and story acceptance criteria.
• Work directly with other Product Owners to coordinate inter-team and inter-train dependencies.
• Manage, review, and prioritize the sprint backlog for use in PI planning and understanding of the complete effort.
• Accept work as done by verifying acceptance criteria are met, and that the work fulfills the team's Definition of Done.
• Communicate with and provide information to stakeholders regarding work sequence, risks and mitigation options, and impact of scope changes.

• Bachelor's degree or equivalent experience
• Legal authorization to work in the US is required. We will not sponsor individuals for employment visas, now or in the future, for this job opening.

• 5+ years of software engineering experience with demonstrated professional development in software design and implementation.
• Previous experience developing software and automated tests and tools in object-oriented languages such as C++ or Python
• Experience with automation frameworks and tools development
• Experience in requirements decomposition and test traceability
• Experience in using open-source tools like Git and Jenkins
• Experience with continuous integration environments, automated test, and acceptance testing
• Experience working in an Agile development setting and Agile project tools (e.g., Atlassian suite)
• Experience working with industrial protocols, especially Common Industrial Protocol (CIP)
• Experience developing software and test to safety and security standards such as IEC 61508 or IEC 62443
• Advanced courses or degree in engineering, computer science, or controls

• Health Insurance including Medical, Dental and Vision
• 401k
• Paid Time off
• Parental and Caregiver Leave
• Flexible Work Schedule where you will work with your manager to enjoy a work schedule that can be flexible with your personal life.
• To learn more about our benefits package, please visit at www.raquickfind.com.

At Rockwell Automation we are dedicated to building a diverse, inclusive and authentic workplace, so if you're excited about this role but your experience doesn't align perfectly with every qualification in the job description, we encourage you to apply anyway. You may be just the right person for this or other roles.

This position is part of a job family. Experience will be the determining factor for position level and compensation.

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