Description
Are you a passionate and gifted leader with Product Owner experience? Are you motivated by working with complex systems, ensuring agreed deliveries, while taking ownership for ensuring the wellbeing and performance of your team? Then this is the right opportunity for you!
Terma provides mission critical solutions for the defense and aerospace industry. We are guided by one overall purpose: To deliver security for countries, alliances, and individuals. We operate in a variety of areas, but security is always the key. We deliver advanced technologies to keep people safe, both in peacetimes and in times of conflict. Our systems provide security for people on land, at sea, and in the air. In space, we are engaged in reaching new frontiers and enabling people on our planet to deal with new and upcoming challenges. Terma puts an emphasis on diversity and brings passionate people together with different cultural and professional backgrounds.
The role and your most important tasks
We are looking for a leader for one of our teams (size 6-10 employees) within the C2 organization in Herlev. The C2 organization is mainly responsible for our C2 Naval system, C-Flex, that provides situational awareness et. al. for surveillance, maritime safety, and combat purposes at sea. The C2 organization counts around 80 highly engaged colleagues and is an area of great focus and importance in Terma. Within the C2 organization in Herlev we work in stable, interdisciplinary, and self-managed teams based on agile principles.
Your tasks will consist of a mix of operational and People Management tasks. With an operational focus, you will act as a Product Owner for the team and be responsible the prioritization of the tasks on the team’s backlog. This involves being responsible for the scrum events like, e.g., refinement, sprint planning, and sprint review. A large part of the product ownership will also involve stakeholder management towards Project Managers, Product Managers, Line Managers, and other Product Owners. On the People Management side, you will be responsible for the ongoing wellbeing and development of your team, to ensure a thriving and well-performing team. All of this will be done in close cooperation with the Director as well as the rest of the C2 management team.
The C2 organization started on a journey around 3 years ago introducing new ways of working in terms of agile development in scrum teams, modern software development practices like Continuous Integration/Deployment (CI/CD), trunk-based development, DEVOPS, and a new development tool stack. The journey is not done and you will have the possibility to influence this journey dependent your experience, drive, and ambitions, through your involvement in strategy definition and implementation.
Your experience and education
You have an educational background as a Computer Scientist, Engineer or similar (MSc level is preferred)
You have high potential regarding the people leadership track and bring at least couple of years of experience within people management - preferably combined with experience from an agile setup and scrum in a Software organization
You have experience with product development from a system or software perspective and you have preferable experience from a Product Owner role
You master English at negotiation level in both writing and speech
Candidates holding experience with most of the following will be preferred:
Team management
Product ownership in a Scrum team setup
Agile development
Continuous Integration/Deployment
Automatic testing
Requirement management
Project management
JIRA, Confluence
You as a person
With your strong leadership skills, personality, and drive, you motivate, induce commitment, inspire, and ensure good collaboration, both inside your own team and across the organization
You master stakeholder management, and with your strong communication skills and your focus on ensuring the right solutions, you navigate naturally around a cross-disciplinary environment where solutions and deliveries are the result of effective collaboration
You are passionate and able to drive change initiatives in the organization with a good feeling of how to qualify and make the organization more efficient
You demonstrate a high integrity and thrive with management responsibility, where you have an essential role in the development of the competences in your team
What can Terma offer you?
You will become part of a high-tech, international, and creative environment in a demanding sector that offers many challenges and opportunities for personal development. You will be part of a dedicated team characterized by professional pride and humor.
In addition to the professional challenges, Terma offers a wide range of social activities and sports facilities, where employees meet in an informal atmosphere.
Do you need further information?
For further information, please contact Michael Smed Kristensen, Director, C2 Naval Solutions on mskr@terma.com.
We look forward to receiving your application no later than 15th of February 2022. Please submit your CV and application as soon as possible, as we will process applications continuously. Please note, that to manage your application effectively and confidentially in our recruiting system, we only receive applications via our job portal.
Bear in mind that candidates must be able to obtain a security clearance by the Danish national security agency. This entails that candidates must, as a minimum, have stayed within NATO/EU for the last 7 years only interrupted by short stays abroad and have citizenship from a country that is member of NATO.
The high-tech and innovative Terma Group develops products and systems for defense, non-defense and security applications, including command and control systems, radar systems, self-protection systems for aircraft and vessels, space technology, and aerostructures for the aircraft industry.
Terma A/S is headquartered at Aarhus, Denmark. Internationally, Terma has subsidiaries and operations in The Netherlands, Belgium, Germany, United Kingdom, United Arab Emirates, India, Singapore and the U.S.