The Swift Group is looking for a Product Manager. The Product Manager will use their significant intelligence and business expertise to play a key leadership role within a high performing Agile delivery team focused on delivering mission critical applications. They will research software systems, present ideas for system improvements, and conduct impact analysis for software changes to provide high-value features to our customer. The ideal candidate is someone with a strong subject matter expertise in intelligence tradecraft and requirements analysis skills combined with the ability to clearly communicate technical concepts. This Product Manager will have applied experience working in a dynamic Agile/Scrum environment with shifting priorities and requirements under little supervision to prioritize initiative, understand functional requirements, and document findings.

Key Responsibilities:

• Derive lower-level requirements from higher-level allocated requirements that describe in detail the functions that a system component must fulfill, and ensure these requirements are complete, correct, unique, unambiguous, realizable, and verifiable
• Establish a process to formally and proactively control and manage changes to requirements, consider impacts prior to commitment to change, gain stakeholder buy-in, eliminate ambiguity, ensure traceability to source requirements, and track and settle open actions
• Work closely with the technical leads and software engineers to develop and modify systems requirements documentation to meet the client's need and explore potential solutions
• Create and manage the product roadmap; facilitate and write user stories and acceptance criteria; and define, design, and develop testing protocol
• Develop scenarios (threads) and an Operational Concept that describes the interactions between the system, the user, and the environment, that satisfies operational, support, maintenance, and disposal needs
• Improve standard integration strategies based upon rationale for previous decisions that resulted in improved integration performance
• Aids in coordinating the creation of user acceptance test scenarios to be used in testing the applications to verify the client's requirements are incorporated into the system design
• Assess each risk to the program and determine the probability of occurrence and quantified consequence of failure in accordance with an approved risk management plan
• Establish and follow a formal procedure for coordinating system integration activities among multiple teams, ensuring complete coverage of all interfaces
• Adapt processes to improve inefficiencies and accelerate solutions development by providing recommendations for continuous and consistent improvement
• Translate, analyze data, and effectively report problems through written and graphical formats.
• Apply best practices in project management, including those used to initiate, plan, control, monitor, and report upon all phases of project

Required Qualifications:

• Bachelor's degree in a technical discipline, or the equivalent combination of education, technical training, or work/military experience
• 5+ years subject matter expertise as an intelligence professional supporting a wide range of intelligence missions
• Experience developing technical and/or product documentation
• Ability to discern requirements from customer and technical exchange meetings
• Proficient in making data-informed decisions
• Hands-on experience building a consensus across a wide range of stakeholders
• Strong briefing and writing skills are a must as well as the ability to work well with teams or individually with minimal supervision
• US Citizenship and an active TS/SCI with Polygraph security clearance required

Desired Qualifications:

• Proficient in synthesizing business and/or software requirements across multiple organizations
• Experience using Jira and other project management software in a complex engineering environment
• Skilled with qualitative and quantitative research methods
• Experience as a Product Owner or other stakeholder in software development
• Capable in leading process improvements and organizational change

The Swift Groups is an Equal Opportunity/Affirmative Action employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, disability, or veteran status, or any other protected class.