We are assisting a direct client as they are looking for a Product Owner. This role is a Permanent Full time Role. Candidates need to be U.S. Citizens OR Green Card Holders.

 

Responsibilities:

Own Development Backlog & Team Delivery Roadmap

• Envision business functionality and process that is required to deliver on corporate initiatives and objectives
• Develop sequential Road map of deliverables that is socialized with alignment across business stakeholders
• Transform roadmap items into Epics level definitions of MVP deliveries with clear and concise representation of scope, value, outcomes and acceptance criterion
• Effectively organize Story Maps that break down Epics into Feature/Function level deliverables
• Maintain healthy backlog of work accepted by the Development Team
• Plan prioritization of Stories into development Sprint based on value delivery

Program and Sprint Delivery Execution

• Plan Program Increments (PIs) with Release Train and Team Leads by mapping priority efforts to Team capacity
• Groom Epics with Release Train and Stories with the Team to make them “Ready for Dev”
• Monitor un-planned support requests and balance priority between primary development objectives
• Ensure cross team dependencies and/or blockers are communicated and impacts clear in Scrum of Scrums (SoS)
• Define/review strategies required to accept work in terms of functional, regression, SIT and UAT testing
• Accept/Reject work delivered by the development team
• Approval of Releases and Deployments to Production
• Conduct Demos and Read-outs on team delivery across the stakeholders and organization

Business Relationship Management

• Act as the face of the Team promoting the value and delivery of their efforts
• Negotiate priorities across multiple business units with logic and quantitively measure value
• Organize workshops and value stream mapping exercises to discover gaps and opportunities
• Be the “Trusted Advisor” to the stakeholders

Minimum Work Experience

• 10+ years conducting complex business analysis that directly became requirements for successful software development efforts
• 3+ years within an Agile framework for software delivery (preferred as a Product Owner CSP or similar)
• 2+ years delivering or directly supporting process development/implementation for Product Lifecycle Management, Finance, and/or Accounting.
• 2+ years delivering or directly supporting Financial, Enterprise Resource Planning, and/or Engineering applications.
• 2+ years delivering or directly supporting Testing and Quality assurance practices for Software Development
• Proven leadership abilities with influence, communication and motivation of teams
• Exposure to Agile Project management tools such as JIRA and Confluence
• Proven team player with the ability to multi-task in a fast-paced dynamic agile work environment
• Supported a metrics-driven data culture to drive accountability and transparency
• Passionate problem solver and motivated self-starter including ability to analyze situation and recommend sound solutions and implementation strategies
• Outstanding verbal and written communication skills

Additional Desired Skills:

• Scrum Master and/or Product Owner certifications
• Experience working as hands on technical resource
• Experience with Data Warehousing, Business Intelligence methods
• Consulting experience
• Comfortable dealing with ambiguity and ability to make trade-offs
• Able to work under pressure, multitask, manage changing priorities and workload

Education

• Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Information Systems, or a combination of education and experience.

Location: Duluth, GA or Tallassee, AL (some travel required between locations)

Posted On: Monday, July 18, 2022