Description

•             Define and execute product vision, strategy, roadmap, and lifecycle management for Electric Utility Network Operations applications. 

•             Gather, analyse, and prioritize business requirements; translate utility operational needs into product features, epics, and user stories. 

•             Strong understanding of Electric Utility Transmission & Distribution operations, including SCADA, DMS, OMS, ADMS, DERMS, and related business processes. 

•             Act as Product Owner/Product Manager for Agile teams, managing and prioritizing the product backlog to maximize business value. 

•             Lead Agile ceremonies including backlog refinement, sprint planning, sprint reviews, retrospectives, and release planning. 

•             Define acceptance criteria, validate delivered functionality, and ensure alignment with business and operational requirements. 

•             Collaborate with cross-functional teams including engineering, architecture, operations, QA, UX, and business stakeholders to deliver high-quality products. 

•             Drive stakeholder engagement with utility customers, control centre operators, field operations, IT teams, and executive leadership. 

•             Monitor product performance through KPIs, customer feedback, operational metrics, and continuous improvement initiatives. 

•             Support grid modernization, digital transformation, and innovation initiatives leveraging cloud, analytics, AI/ML, and smart grid technologies. 

•             Ensure compliance with utility industry standards, cybersecurity requirements, and regulatory obligations. 

•             Facilitate change management, product adoption, user training, and business readiness activities. 

•             Demonstrate strong leadership, problem-solving, decision-making, communication, presentation, and stakeholder influence skills. 

•             Foster Agile and Scrum best practices, continuous delivery, incremental value realization, and collaboration across distributed teams.

Technical Skills:

• Utility Network Operations Systems: SCADA, DMS, OMS, ADMS, EMS, DERMS. 
• Electric Utility Domain Expertise: Transmission & Distribution (T&D) operations, control centre operations, outage management, grid reliability, load management, and DER integration. 
• Network Modelling & GIS: Utility network models, GIS integration, topology management, connectivity analysis. 
• Cloud & Digital Technologies: Microsoft Azure, cloud-native architectures, SaaS platforms. 
• System Integration: APIs, microservices, middleware, enterprise application integration. 
• Data & Analytics: Operational analytics, reporting, dashboards, KPI monitoring, AI/ML-driven insights.
• Smart Grid Technologies: Grid modernization, distributed energy resources, renewable integration, demand response, digital twins.
• Cybersecurity & Compliance: NERC CIP, NERC Reliability Standards, IEC, IEEE standards, utility cybersecurity practices.
• Software Delivery: Agile/Scrum, DevOps concepts, product lifecycle management, release management. 
• Emerging Technologies: IoT, AI/ML, predictive analytics, advanced visualization, decision-support systems

Key Skills

Education

Bachelor's degree