Product Owner- Finance & Engineering
Spartan Technologies, Inc.
- Duluth, GA
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