Product Owner

ASRC Federal is a leading government contractor furthering missions in space, public health and defense. As an Alaska Native owned corporation, our work helps secure an enduring future for our shareholders. Join our team and discover why we are a top veteran employer and Certified Great Place to Work™

ASRC Federal Highland Technology is currently seeking a Product Owner with strong technical background to join our Agile Release Train (ART) in support of the government's Natural Resource Conservation Services agency.

Summary: ASRC Federal Highland Technology is seeking a Product Owner with strong technical background to join an agile development team and contribute to the delivery of complex custom software in an enterprise class web application environment.

Responsibilities:

• Focus on content and intent
• Bring the vision to the team
• Understand the what and why for each work item
• Understand the domain and the business
• Represent the voice of the customer to the dev team
• Maintain a clear backlog with high quality stories and be decisive about its content
• Lead decomposition, sizing and sequencing of work
• Prioritize work by considering all applicable information
• Coordinate and drive feature release decisions
• Collaborate effectively
• Build and maintain connections within and beyond the dev team
• Coordinate work with other teams
• Actively facilitate and participate in meetings and group chats
• Communicate concisely and balance disagreements
• Manage expectations and elicit feedback
• Document the progress of the team's work in Jira and demo completed work
• Improve and help others improve
• Be available and accessible
• Share ideas and experiences
• Advocate for a high performing, positive culture
• Constantly find meaningful opportunities to improve and act upon

Requirements:

• Background in software
• Strong analytical skills
• Strong understanding of software development processes
• Excellent communication skills
• Proven ability to work collaboratively with a variety of teammates and stakeholders
• Experience with feature decomposition, story writing and story splitting
• Experience with user centered design techniques such as story mapping, journey mapping, empathy mapping, etc.
• Solid understanding of Agile development methodologies

Successful candidate is subject to a background investigation by the government and must be able to meet the requirements to hold a position of public trust.

Desired Skills:

• Familiarity with tools for facilitation, communication, and refinement of work like JIRA, Confluence or Miro
• Experience with Application Lifecycle Management (ALM) tools such as JIRA
• Knowledge and experience with Scaled Agile Framework (SAFe)
• Experience communicating with a wide range of people at all levels of an organization including business sponsors and executives, architects, product managers, Scrum Masters, developers, QA engineers, etc.
• Familiarity with integrating COTS and custom software as part of an enterprise software solution
• Proficient in problem identification and root cause analysis

Education and Experience:

• Bachelor's degree -- Computer Science or related preferred
• 5 years of IT experience with at least 3 years experience as Product Owner
• 9+ years of relevant work experience in lieu of a degree would be acceptable, especially if the experience is multi-functional (i.e., operations and development)
• Product Owner certification preferred

We invest in the lives of our employees, both in and out of the workplace, by providing competitive pay and benefits packages. Benefits offered may include health care, dental, vision, life insurance; 401(k); education assistance; paid time off including PTO, holidays, and any other paid leave required by law.

EEO Statement

ASRC Federal and its Subsidiaries are Equal Opportunity employers. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, gender, color, age, sexual orientation, gender identification, national origin, religion, marital status, ancestry, citizenship, disability, protected veteran status, or any other factor prohibited by applicable law.