Digital Product Owner

Caterpillar Caterpillar · Industrial · Chennai, Tamil Nadu

This role is for a Digital Product Owner at Caterpillar, focusing on the development of cloud-based technology projects. The responsibilities include requirements gathering, creating user stories, managing projects using Agile methodologies, and ensuring solutions meet business needs. The role requires experience in cloud-based web application development and familiarity with Azure DevOps and SQL queries. While the company is in the technology sector, the core function of this role is product ownership and project management within a traditional software development lifecycle, not direct AI/ML model development or research.

What you'd actually do

  1. Participate in requirements gathering meetings/workshops with product owners to derive the system requirements and uncover areas of improvement
  2. Performing requirements analysis and create user stories with proper acceptance criteria for development team
  3. Conducting requirement grooming meetings and to share business needs and system requirements with the development team
  4. Ensuring solutions meet business needs and requirements
  5. Serving as a liaison between Business users, Business Analyst and development team users

Skills

Required

  • Story Creation
  • Agile Methodology & ceremonies
  • work allocation/tracking
  • working with product owners and Leads
  • cloud based web application development
  • Excellent documentation skills
  • A track record of following through on commitments
  • Excellent planning, organizational, and time management skills
  • Exceptional analytical and conceptual thinking skills
  • The ability to influence stakeholders and work closely with them to determine acceptable solutions
  • Familiarity with Azure DevOps (Formerly VSTS Teams)
  • Knowledge in SQL queries

Nice to have

  • Experience developing applications with Agile team methodologies preferred
  • Familiarity with Estimation models
  • Excellent communications and interpersonal skills
  • Strong Analytical skills
  • Experience at creating technical project Documentation and task time estimates

What the JD emphasized

  • at least 5+ years of experience
  • Experience in working or managing cloud based web application development
  • A track record of following through on commitments
  • Familiarity with Azure DevOps (Formerly VSTS Teams)
  • Experience developing applications with Agile team methodologies preferred