Technical Product Owner

1 Year Contract

Position Overview:

In this role, as a Technical Product Owner you will act as the internal voice of the customer working in an agile environment. This role will define system features, participate in validation and is responsible for the scope of work the Agile Release Train (ART) will complete. This individual will utilize their strong business and technical skills and experience to manage their team’s intake of work, as well as prioritize delivery and maximize business value being delivered by their Scrum team. In addition, they must be able to work collaboratively as part of a larger technology organization empowered to analyze and deliver innovative solutions to the marketplace. The Technical Product Owner will apply specialized product knowledge and expertise to understand business and technology objectives, communicate the product vision and roadmap, prioritize, and translate needs into requirements to ensure that expected outcomes are achieved.

Minimum Qualifications:

• 3 - 5 years of Years’ experience in software development or maintenance
• College degree (Bachelor) in related technical/business areas or equivalent work experience.
• Demonstrate ability to perform root cause analysis and suggest rectification options.
• Strong verbal and written communication skills – Should be able to provide technical and functional impact summary of the managed incidents.
• Ability to develop productive working relationships with both technical and non-technical partners
• Understands key provider data business objectives and strategy
• Product Owner experience including JIRA work
• Experience leading Backlog Refinement, feature/story decomp, and managing Sprint and PI planning
• Experience delivering API solutions, knowledge of RESTful APIs and JSON/XML Format

Responsibilities:

• Understand the vision of a product from the point of view of customer, end user, or stakeholders
• Work with product management to represent the customer and stakeholder priorities to the scrum team and ensure the delivery products solve real customer/user needs.
• Develop requirements and specifications, prioritize features, build consensus and deliver required technical data and creative materials to our engineers.
• Facilitate communication and track tasks throughout the development process between a variety of internal teams including engineering and business teams.
• Participate in scheduling and negotiation of delivery tasks to set achievable releases dates that align with business partner delivery schedules.
• Define and analyze metrics that inform the success of our products and use data to drive decision making for product development and maximum business impact.
• Works closely with solution architects, business and tech partners to provide delivery plans and validated requirements with delivery partners.

What’s In It for You?

• You will be mentored by senior leaders on the team
• Opportunity to learn new technologies and continue to grow a career in the Technical Product space
• Weekly paychecks