Product Consultant (Public Sector)

Responsibilities

As a Product Consultant in Kainos you will be responsible for your team’s backlog maturity, taking ownership of features from inception through to delivery. You will drive MVP thinking and communicate the value of it with team members, the wider project team and relevant stakeholders. You will lead agile ceremonies, encourage engagement and discussion, plan and run workshops with a variety of stakeholders to facilitate consensus in areas of uncertainty. You will actively participate within the Product capability, supporting the delivery of initiatives and manage, coach and develop a small number of staff with a focus on performance management.

Minimum Requirements

• Experience in bespoke software delivery, operating as a part of an agile team working for an external customer (client‑facing role in a consulting environment is a must‑have).
• UK public sector experience (central government).
• Experience of the software development lifecycle, involved from analysis through to acceptance, launch and live operations.
• Excellent facilitator of workshops, able to lead stakeholder groups to achieve focused outcomes.
• Accomplished in modelling As‑is and To‑be business processes, presenting them to stakeholders and the team to ensure understanding and buy‑in.
• Experience in stakeholder management, comfortable challenging decisions when appropriate and tailoring collaboration and communication styles where necessary.
• Responsible for the breakdown of an area of work from inception through to delivery, managing the team’s backlog ensuring quality and maturity.
• Responsible for elicitation of functional, technical and non‑functional requirements, translating these into user stories so they are easily understood across the whole team.
• Ability to use prioritisation techniques to refine the backlog and manage dependencies.
• Proven ability to manage scope to meet the required MVP, ensuring value is delivered.
• Ability to work within commercial constraints for example cost restrictions and project deadlines.
• Excellent user story writing skills, ensuring quality and consistency of stories across the project.
• Proven ability to build trusted relationships both inside and outside the delivery team, comfortable collaborating on the breakdown of an area into deliverable pieces of work.
• Experience contributing to sales activities (e.g., working on bids, writing sales proposals etc.).
• Experienced in Agile methodologies and able to mentor those in your team as well as coach clients.
• Passionate about developing people – demonstrated ability in managing, coaching and developing junior members of your team and wider community.
• Experience explaining technical jargon to non‑technical/commercial teams.

Equal Opportunity & Inclusion

We believe in the power of diversity, equity and inclusion and are committed to building a team that is as diverse as the world we live in, where everyone is valued, respected, and given an equal chance to thrive. We actively seek talented people from all backgrounds, regardless of age, race, ethnicity, gender, sexual orientation, religion, disability, or any other characteristic. All candidates receive a level playing field.

Our recruitment process is tailored to each candidate’s needs and we provide accommodations or adjustments as required.