OVERVIEW:
As a Product Owner, lead a software development team in the division to develop the product capabilities for a new system that provides controlled access to data and resources. This new system will provide entitlement management capabilities for users across multiple networks, in a cloud environment. It supports the community's framework for Identity, Credential, and Access Management (ICAM)
GENERAL DUTIES:
- Work with other POs and leadership to help shape the product vision and enumerate high-level priorities
- Prepare for and participate in Sprint Planning
- Consistently refine and prepare program backlog Build, edit, prioritize and maintain the team backlog
- Progressively elaborate requirements and suggestions from stakeholders and the team
- Work with an Agile Scrum team to develop and scrub stories in order to ensure accurate story estimates and sequencing
- Collaborate with the team to detail story acceptance criteria and examples in the form of acceptance tests
- Communicate story detail and priorities and ensure the team aligns and agrees on a final iteration plan
- Validate that stories meet acceptance criteria and the team’s Definition of Done when the team is ready for story review
- Be available to answer the team’s questions to clarify current sprint work
- Collaborate with the team and any other stakeholders in the Sprint Demo and participate in the Sprint Retrospective
- Coordinate dependencies with other POs and work across teams to define and implement improvement stories that will increase the velocity and quality of the program
- Work with users and stakeholders to collect feedback to incorporate into the backlog
- Communicate regularly with the team, stakeholders, and users
- Act as liaison between stakeholders and the team
- Evaluate product progress and quality
REQUIRED QUALIFICATIONS:
- Typically requires BS degree and relevant experience as the following Expert- 11-16 years
- Prior Agile and Scrum experience
- Demonstrate the ability to understand the scope of upcoming work, and collaborate with Technical Lead to assist with decision-making and sequencing of the critical technological infrastructures that will host the new business functionality.
- Strong communication skills to interact with both the teams and customers
- Ability to translate requirements, feedback, and requests into Epics and Stories
- Story writing experience
- Capacity to work well in groups and the ability to lead
- Experience using Agile tracking tools, preferably Jira and Confluence
- Strong verbal and written communication skills
- Passion and a continuous-improvement mindset
- Self-motivated
- Problem-solving skills
DESIRED QUALIFICATIONS:
- Scrum Alliance Certified Scrum Product Owner (CSPO) or equivalent PO certification
- Strong knowledge of DevOps tools and processes
- Experience in utilizing diverse metrics to drive team and product improvement
- Additional technical knowledge is welcome: Amazon Web Services, Java, Eclipse/Git/Jenkins, Relational Databases, Web service development
CLEARANCE:
- Full Scope Polygraph minimum
