REMOTE Product Owner

Remote Product Owner

Apex Systems is looking for a qualified individual to fill an opening for a Remote Product Owner role. Please see the job description below for details of the role.

Responsibilities:

• Responsible for working with Agile Product Managers and other stakeholders across multiple cross-functional agile teams to drive the organization's mission, operations, structure, and goals. To streamline the Product Backlog while maintaining the conceptual and technical integrity of the Features or components for the teams.
• Business expertise to identify short and long-term business priorities; Heavily involved in program backlog refinement, preparation for Program Increment planning, and participation in planning events. Practices Lean/Agile leadership; drives the vision and Program backlog; owns team backlog and implementation.
• Defines and drives iteration goals and iteration content via prioritized stories; Build, edit, and maintain the Team Backlog of user stories, defects, and enablers; Primary responsibility for maintaining the flow of just-in-time story elaboration.
• Understand the scope of enabler work and collaborate with System and Solution Architect/Engineering to assist decisions and sequencing of technological infrastructures.
• Understands Feature planning and prioritization for capabilities; Primary source for story detail and priorities in Iteration Planning, establishes story acceptance criteria; accepts stories into the baseline; Apply Behavior Driven Development (clientD) to guide development, decrease rework, and increase flow.
• Review and accept stories in the Team demo, participate in the Iteration Retrospective and the Inspect & Adapt workshop.

Required Qualifications:

• Bachelor's degree in business or relevant technology-related program is required.
• Minimum 4 years’ experience as a product owner or program manager
• Minimum 2 years’ experience with Agile/SAFe framework
• Minimum 4 years’ experience with cloud technologies such as Azure/AWS