Product Owner

Leidos hiring for Product Owner jobs in Earth City, MO, US

Description

Leidos is looking for an Agile Product Owner to join our team responsible for the integration, operations, and sustainment of various operational and in-development systems. This position will oversee several established systems and manage a team made up of devops, systems engineers, systems administrators, and testers tasked to deliver the next generation of Aeronautical Intelligence technologies to our customer. A successful candidate will have experience with Agile methodologies and the various tools necessary to run agile teams, as well as the ability to participate and lead 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
• Create and track milestones related to customer schedules
• 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
• Ability to obtain a Top Secret Clearance and achieve TS/SCI with CI Poly
• Requires BS degree and 4 years of prior relevant experience or Masters with 2 years of prior relevant experience; OR 4 years of experience in lieu of degree

Preferred Qualifications:

• SAFe Agile Certification
• 2+ years experience as a Scrum Master
• Certified Product Owner
• Certified Scrum Master
• PMP Certification
• Understanding of AWS/Cloud technologies
• Understanding of Cyber Security requirements
• Proven experience managing multiple baselines across multiple environments
• Experience with collaboration tools including Jira/Confluence and Rocketchat
• Experience with ArcGIS or geospatial technologies
• Experience with Aeronautical data and systems
• Experience supporting the NGA customer

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.

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.