Agile Product Owner - Dod

Agile Product Owner

Our client is seeking an experienced Product Owner (Level 3) to support a Missile Defense Agency program. This role will focus on defining/refining processes to guide the development of software that operates within standalone and distributed computing environments. A successful Product Owner can serve as the voice of the customer with the development teams and act as a single authority for confirming the definition of done is met. The ideal candidate will be experienced in system design and system architecture with demonstrated experience breaking down requirements for Agile development teams in defense or mission-critical domains. Must have an active and transferable DoD Secret security clearance with current investigation at the required level.

Compensation: $100,000 - $130,000 commiserates with education and years of experience

Location: Huntsville, AL (On/Off-Site)

Required Education/Experience:

• Bachelor's degree in software engineering, System Engineering, or a related technical field (or equivalent experience/combined education)
• Minimum 5 years of professional software engineering experience, or 3 years with a master's degree in a related field
• Solid understanding of software design principles and implementation
• Experience with requirements verification practices and processes

Required Skills:

• Support the System Engineering Integration and Test functional organization in understanding software requirements and decomposing those requirements into development features.
• Developing development features and accepting work done to complete those features.
• Meet with customers to understand needs and refine software requirements to fit those needs and use that knowledge to define and improve development features.
• Assist with the migration to a microservices-oriented architecture and adjusting requirements to account for that new paradigm.
• Collaborate in a fast-paced Agile environment, utilizing tools like Jira and Confluence (Digital Agility) for sprint tracking, backlog grooming, and team collaboration.
• Participate in mixed classification and distributed computing environments for code development, deployment, and testing.
• Assist teams with breaking down Feature development stories to actionable tasks that can be independently developed and collectively integrated.
• Interface with cross-functional teams, including systems engineers, software testers, product owners, and program leadership.
• Support the Product Manager vision and assist with the execution of the planned development roadmap through leading Agile teams to success.
• Support Formal Qualification Testing and software readiness reviews prior to release.

Desired Skills:

• Experience supporting DoD or aerospace/defense programs
• Experience with Test-Driven development practices
• Understanding of distributed systems, local compute cluster platforms / cloud architectures, and containerized environments (e.g., Docker, Podman)
• Knowledge of OSF-G architecture or similar real-time frameworks
• Experience with DevSecOps pipelines and CI/CD processes