Product Owner, Senior

Product Owner, Senior

Key Role :

Maintain responsibility for defining and prioritizing user stories, managing the product backlog, and collaborating with stakeholders to ensure alignment with mission objectives and operational requirements.

Leverage in-depth understanding of Agile processes, manage and execute backlog refining sessions for sprint teams, and provide recommendations based on metrics evaluated.

Work with the Client for backlog grooming including prioritization. Ensure prioritization of features and capabilities with the customer to ensure higher priority items are identified and implemented first.

Serve the Client and Scrum Teams by guiding the team on how to use the agile processes. Develop and maintain relationships with internal and external customers.

Provide leadership to ensure the scrum team attains the most value from a self-organized team. Maintain responsibility for impediments including resolving impediments, providing guidance for removing impediments, and escalating impediments to ensure quick resolution.

Facilitate technical discussions, decision making, impediment resolution, and conflict resolution. Ensure transparency from client to scrum team by facilitating internal and external communication.

Perform continual assessment of the maturity of the scrum team and providing coaching and insight in support of greater maturity.

Commit to continuous process improvement including active facilitation of reviews and retrospectives and incorporation of lessons learned for future sprints.

Basic Qualifications :

• 5+ years of experience in software development
• 2+ years of experience in a Product Owner role
• Experience in military cyber operations and with working in a SAFe Agile environment
• Experience with regulations, standards, and frameworks such as NIST, RMF, and DoD cyber security requirements, and with using Atlassian tools such as Jira and Confluence and road maps for product roadmaps
• Knowledge of tactics, techniques, and procedures (TTPs), tools, and technologies, and the software development life cycle (SDLC) processes and methodologies, including Agile, Scrum, and DevOps
• Ability to interact with diverse stakeholders including military personnel, government agencies, and contractors
• Ability to prioritize and manage a product backlog, make data-driven decisions, and drive product delivery to meet mission objectives
• TS / SCI clearance
• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Information Technology, or Cyber Security
• Certified Scrum Product Owner (CSPO) or Agile certification

Additional Qualifications :

• Experience working in a SAFe Agile environment in a government or defense contracting environment
• Possession of excellent verbal and written communication skills
• Possession of excellent negotiation and stakeholder management skills
• Master's degree in Computer Science, Information Technology, or Cyber Security
• SAFe Product Owner / Product Manager (POPM) certification preferred

Clearance :

Applicants selected will be subject to a security investigation and may need to meet eligibility requirements for access to classified information;

TS / SCI clearance is required.

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