Product Owner

Product Owner

Austin, TX 78711 (Texas residents only)

6 months Contract

The Candidate will perform product management, requirement gathering and documentation as part of a project team with direction and guidance from the Project Management Office and Applications Services Management. The Candidate must have a strong comprehension of what the customer is trying to achieve and develop a pipeline to translate that information to create the prioritized product backlog for the development team using an Agile/Scrum methodology. This position entails a candidate that is very organized and possesses analytical thinking with strong communication skills as they will need to see through the eyes of the customer but fluently speak the language of technology. The primary goal of the worker will be to drive the customers product vision into reality with the help of the project team.

Client will require the Candidate to work on the following initiatives and will perform advanced product management tasks such as:

• Ability to turn a product vision into an applicable strategy that can be supported by business and IT management
• Able to analyze and interpret technical information, including industry standards, statutes, administrative rules, procedures and system documentation; to translate user/business needs into a technical style; to communicate technical instructions to system users; to analyze, evaluate, and integrate business rules into system requirements; to exercise sound judgment in making critical decisions; and to communicate effectively verbally and in writing.
• Conducts in-depth interviews with Business SMEs, Business Product Manager and Business division stakeholders to elicit and thoroughly understand critical business processes, functions and problems.
• Identify ways to improve and modernize each specific process via automation.
• Partner with business SMEs and agile product teams to gather requirements and build product roadmaps that will be incorporated into the broader agency product portfolio plan
• Participate in research to identify new opportunities for new and existing features and functionalities
• Create product backlog with Themes, Epics, User stories
• Accept work built by scrum teams and works with Business Product Manager, Lead SME, Lead Product Owner and IT determines if product is shippable
• Regularly attends sprint ceremonies and collaborates with the development team(s)
• Participate in all phases of SDLC, including release planning, analysis & design, user story recording/prioritization and software development.
• Perform acceptance testing of the user stories developed
• Provide guidance and knowledge sharing to existing development staff.

Minimum Requirements: Candidates that do not meet or exceed the minimum stated requirements (skills/experience) will be displayed to customers but may not be chosen for this opportunity.

Years - Required/Preferred - Experience

3 - Required - Experience with application development as an agile/scrum product owner/manager

3 - Required - Experience with customer focused user experience design

3 - Required - Experience with Agile development experience with Scrum, Kanban

3 - Required - Experience with writing acceptance criteria-based user stories

3 - Required - Experience with analytical thought process to aid with prioritization and negotiation

3 - Required - Experience with highly complex application security requirements

3 - Required - Experience with organizing user acceptance testing per sprint and end to end

2 - Required - Experience with story mapping

2 - Required - Experience with business process mapping

2 - Required - Experience with Atlassian Jira and Atlassian Confluence

2 - Required - Experience with completing system documentation

2 - Required - Proficient with the Microsoft Office products, including Outlook, Project, and Visio

2 - Required - Proficient with common collaboration products such as Microsoft Teams, SharePoint, Cisco WebEx

3 - Preferred - Experience working with enterprise software solutions as a developer

3 - Preferred - Experience working with enterprise architectural design

2 - Preferred - Public sector experience (Federal, State or Local Government)

2 - Preferred - Experience with 508 Compliance/Web Accessibility

2 - Preferred - Experience with Information Security Office Compliance

2 - Preferred - Experience with department, company, or agency agile transformation

1 - Preferred - Experience with Service Now ticketing and workflow automation platform

1 - Preferred