Sr. Lead Technical Product Owner, Staff Technology Solutions

sponsibilities**

• Serves as the final authority representing the customer's interests in sprint backlog prioritization and requirements discussions, setting all priorities for the team in alignment with the business stakeholder roadmap(s).

• Works to maximize the business value delivered by the team in each development sprint.

• Ensures that the product delivers and maintains a high degree of uptime, security, and quality.

• Ensures that user stories, themes, and epics are written, refined, and clearly define a universal definition of done.

• Facilitates and oversees the immediate needs of the development team as they arise by being fully available to the team.

• Facilitates estimation sessions, backlog grooming efforts, and sprint reviews.

• Coordinates user acceptance testing and all necessary external validation efforts.

• Accepts stories after they are deemed complete by the development team.

• Represents the team and their efforts to others within the organization.

• Ensures cross-team and release requirements and dependencies are shared appropriately.

• Develops and maintains strong and productive relationships with all DTT and business stakeholders.

• Attends all team retrospectives and assists with driving continuous improvement across the team.

• Manages all budget requirements of the Agile team.

• Mentors other Product Owners and is seen as an expert and leader in the discipline of Product Ownership.

• Responsible for managing the product backlog across multiple product teams.

• Responsible for making strategic decisions regarding backlog refinement across multiple products and backlogs.

Minimum Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree or equivalent experience in computer science, engineering, IT systems, or related technical field

• 4+ years relevant work experience

• Knowledge and/or experience with Agile development approaches and techniques

• Experience in driving teams and management to decisions

• Experience leading projects and technical teams

• 4+ years experience with technical systems, data structures and languages

• Experience with the Atlassian tool suite (Confluence, Jira, etc.)

• Experience writing both user stories and formal requirements

• Excellent organizational skills and attention to detail

• Strong verbal and written communication skills

• Excellent personal and relational intelligence

• Demonstration of leadership and strong collaboration at all levels

• Ability to quickly learn and comprehend technical systems

• Self-starter who completes responsibilities with minimal supervision

• Team player who is committed to both the team and the product

• Strong decision-making skills with the ability to collaborate and make decisions in the gray

• Creative thinker with a vision

• Ability to effectively manage vendors

• Strong analytical and problem solving skills

• Strong interpersonal skills and desire to work collaboratively

Preferred Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in Bachelor's degree in computer science, engineering, IT systems, or related technical field

• 7 - 10 years relevant work experience

• Experience with software system design

• Experience with UX/UI design

• Experience with scripting and querying software languages (Python, SQL, etc.)

• Experience with AWS cloud services (Cloudwatch, S3, RDS, EBS, EC2, etc.)

• Experience with cloud-hosted APIs and proficient with using tools to interact with them (Datadog, Postman, etc.)

• AWS Cloud Practitioner

• Certified Scrum Product Owner (CSPO)

• Advanced Certified Scrum Product Owner (A-CSPO)

Minimum Years of Experience

4

Travel Requirements

10%

Required Level of Education

Bachelor's degree or equivalent experience

Preferred Level of Education

Bachelor's Degree

Major/Concentration

Computer science, engineering, IT systems, or related technical field

Relocation Assistance Provided

No