Product Owner, Junior Level

ASRC Federal is seeking a Junior Product Owner / Business Analyst with a wide array of experience as this position will support a variety of initiatives.

Join our team supporting the Department of the Interior.

The following information aims to provide potential candidates with a better understanding of the requirements for this role.

Responsibilities

• Focus on content and intent
• Bring the vision to the team.
• Understand the what and why for each work item.
• Understand the domain and the business.
• Represent the voice of the customer to the development team.
• Maintain a clear backlog with high quality stories and be decisive about its content.
• Lead decomposition, sizing and sequencing of work.
• Prioritize work by considering all applicable information.
• Coordinate and drive feature release decisions.
• Collaborate effectively
• Build and maintain connections within and beyond the development team.
• Coordinate work with other teams.
• Actively facilitate and participate in meetings and group chats.
• Communicate concisely and balance disagreements.
• Manage expectations and elicit feedback.
• Document the progress of the team's work in ALM and demo completed work.
• Improve and help others improve
• Be available and accessible.
• Share ideas and experiences.
• Advocate for a high performing, positive culture.
• Constantly find meaningful opportunities to improve and act upon.
• Support a variety of business analysts tasks / initiatives such as develop, redesign, and / or reconstruct and improve business processes and procedures.
• Participate in quality reviews and provide testing support for various applications, tools, learning and development materials and other initiatives, to ensure work complies with specified standards.
• Create, edit and / or review a wide variety of documentation; prepare communications, briefings, spreadsheets, white papers etc.

in support of projects and programs.

Conduct research, analysis and perform program management support tasks.

Requirements

We are looking for exceptionally bright and motivated people to join our team as we provide comprehensive solutions to our federal clients.

ASRC Federal fosters a culture of professional development and collaboration in a working environment that recognizes contributions.

Apply today and talk with your ASRC Federal recruiter.

• Bachelor's degree required (Business Administration, Computer Science, IT, MIS, Organizational Development or other relevant degrees)
• A minimum of two (2) years of experience in product owner, business support, analysis, business process redesign or change management efforts.
• Experience with feature decomposition, story writing and story splitting.
• Experience with user centered design techniques such as story mapping, journey mapping, empathy mapping, etc.
• Solid understanding of Agile development methodologies.
• Excellent interpersonal skills in dealing with federal customers and colleagues.
• Strong analytical skills as well as excellent communication skills both orally and in writing.
• MS Office 365 tools knowledge, skills and abilities (Outlook, Excel, Word, PowerPoint, OneDrive, SharePoint) and Adobe Acrobat Pro for creating, editing, converting, collating, organization, high functioning PDF, fillable, 508 compliant forms that contain conditional formatting tailored to each form.
• Experience with JIRA, Confluence or Miro for facilitation, communication and refinement of work is desired.
• Experience with Application Lifecycle Management (ALM) tools such as JIRA is desired.
• Ability to present information thoroughly and logically.
• Prior government contracting work experience is a plus.
• Permanent Residency or US Citizenship is required for the government clearance (Public Trust).

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