For over 100 years we have been driving change to defeat diabetes, but we know that what got us here today is not necessarily what will make us successful in the future. We are now transforming our business and taking our expertise into new territories including obesity and rare blood and endocrine diseases.

Our story is one of incredible growth and success, which has culminated in receiving many prestigious awards, such as Best Places to Work and Vitality – Britain’s Healthiest Workplace.

The Position
As Senior Product Owner for our Research High-Performance Compute (HPC) team, you will play a crucial role in driving our digital research initiatives forward by providing technical guidance to both the product team and stakeholders and driving value stream mapping initiatives to identify opportunities for optimization and efficiency within our HPC processes.

Other key responsibilities will include:
• Systematically managing stakeholder relationships, gathering feature requests and user stories to ensure that the needs of researchers and data scientists are clearly understood and prioritized
• Collaborating with the product team, architect and lead engineer, to generate strategic product roadmaps that align with our long-term goals
• Preparing and participating in Product Increment (PI) planning sessions
• Prioritizing and managing the product backlog by logically organizing feature requests
• Ensuring effective communication across all product stakeholders

It is an individual contributor position with office presence at King’s Cross, which would be anticipated 3 days per week.

Qualifications

We are looking for a candidate who will present experience and knowledge in:
• Strategic Vision alignment with the ability to develop and communicate a strategic vision for the HPC team, ensuring alignment with broader organizational research objectives
• Proven product ownership experience, with proficiency in Agile methodologies, Lean Thinking, Scrum principles, Kanban principles, and DevOps practices

Deep technical knowledge of HPC and data infrastructure are crucial for the role, including:
• Strong understanding of high-performance computing architectures such as cluster and grid computing, alongside proficiency in relevant programming languages (e.g., Python, R,)
• Familiarity with resource managers or schedulers (e.g., SLURM) and parallel programming frameworks (e.g., MPI, OpenMP)
• Familiarity with cloud computing in a research environment
• Experience with data-intensive computing, data pipelines, and workflows in research environments, as well as knowledge of relevant machine learning frameworks (e.g., TensorFlow, PyTorch)
• Some understanding of BioIT, Cheminformatics and experience in the pharmaceutical industry (highly desirable)

About The Department

We are looking for a Senior Product Owner to join our dynamic team in the data science and AI area in early research, located in either the UK or Denmark. Our mandate is to deliver software, platform, and data engineering solutions for computational biologists, computational drug design and machine learning scientists, geneticists, and epidemiologists. We act as the link between the larger IT organization and the area. Our team consists of lead engineers, full stack engineers, data engineers, product owners, working in an innovative atmosphere to accelerate digital science and innovation.

Working at Novo Nordisk
Novo Nordisk is its people. We know that life is anything but linear and balancing what is important at different stages of our career is never easy. That’s why we make room for diverse life situations, always putting people first.

We value our employees for the unique skills they bring to the table, and we work continuously to bring out the best in them. Working at Novo Nordisk is working toward something bigger than ourselves, and it’s a collective effort. Together, we go further. Together, we’re life changing.

What We Offer
• Bonus: We do our best work to succeed together. When goals are reached, you’ll be rewarded through our bonus scheme.
• Your workplace: Our offices will be your primary workplace but with flexibility to work 2-3 days at home during your working week.
• Pension: a market leading pension scheme with generous employer contributions
• Wellness: We want you to be your best self, so you’ll have access to an award-winning Wellness programme, including Private Medical Insurance.
• Insurances: All colleagues are covered by our private medical, life and disability insurance which provides protection and peace of mind.
• Inclusive culture: our culture is one of care, support and respect for our people. We are committed to making your workplace safe and believe that a transparent, inclusive culture and leadership is the way to empower every individual to do their very best.