Product Owner - Military veterans preferred

Description

Leidos is seeking a Product Owner to support large-scale migration and operations on a large, high-profile DOD contract. The I3TS program provides enterprise-wide IT support to enable DTRA’s Information Management & Technology Directorate (ITD) to consolidate, modernize, and continuously innovate the delivery of IT services and mission capabilities to DTRA’s internal and external mission partners operating in CONUS and OCONUS locations.

The Product Owner will play a pivotal role in DTRA’s implementation of a modernized enterprise architecture. Duties will include performing systems requirements analysis, functional analysis, timeline analysis, trade studies, requirements allocation and interface definition, technical management, integration, system testing, and quality assurance. The product owner will be responsible for entire projects or processes spanning multiple technical areas. This position will work with a team made up of DevOPS, systems engineers, systems administrators, and testers tasked to deliver refreshed and modernized DTRA IT systems under the oversight of project managers and/or scrum masters. The successful candidate will have experience with both Agile and traditional plan-and-predict project methodologies and the various tools necessary to run project teams, as well as the ability to participate in release planning events, daily scrums, and other technical discussions as needed. The effort will harness GOTS, COTS and Custom technologies to deliver advanced production and dissemination capabilities using desktop, web and cloud technologies

Primary Responsibilities

• Drive product delivery through keen understanding of the customer, mission, and product requirements

• Develop the team roadmap and support the team as needed to deliver on commitments

• Plan and prioritize epics, features, stories, and bugs

• Proven ability to write technical tasks with business value for the customer

• Help define, document, and track the completion of Epics, Stories, Tasks, and Bugs

• Communicate with other Product owners and scrum masters, program leadership, customers, and development teams

• Support agile meetings such as daily scrum, retrospectives, and program increment planning

Basic Qualifications

• Defines and manages the team roadmap

• Develops and proposes new ideas regarding technical solutions and processes

• Proactive self-starter demonstrating a positive, willing attitude and excellent oral and written communication skills

• Agile Development knowledge and experience

• Strong analytical skills and the ability to pay careful attention to detail 

• Capacity to work well in groups and the ability to lead a team

• Communicates regularly with key internal and external stakeholders often regarding critical/high priority issues

• Strong briefing skills and experience presenting to senior customer management

Preferred Qualifications

• SAFe Agile Certification

• 2+ years’ experience as a Scrum Master

• Certified Product Owner

• Certified Scrum Master

• Understanding of AWS/Cloud technologies

• Proven experience managing multiple baselines across multiple environments

• Experience with collaboration tools including Jira/Confluence

• Experience supporting the DTRA customer

Original Posting:

For U.S. Positions: While subject to change based on business needs, Leidos reasonably anticipates that this job requisition will remain open for at least 3 days with an anticipated close date of no earlier than 3 days after the original posting date as listed above.

Pay Range:

The Leidos pay range for this job level is a general guideline only and not a guarantee of compensation or salary. Additional factors considered in extending an offer include (but are not limited to) responsibilities of the job, education, experience, knowledge, skills, and abilities, as well as internal equity, alignment with market data, applicable bargaining agreement (if any), or other law.