Product Owner

Job Description

Job Description

About Arcticom, LLC

Arcticom, LLC provides network and systems administration, enterprise architecture and resource planning, certification and accreditation, software design, programming, maintenance of telecommunications and land mobile radio equipment and systems, help desk support and IT transformation services among other services.

About this position: Product Owner Location – Beavercreek, OH

The Essential Duties and Responsibilities are intended to present a descriptive list of the range of duties performed for this position and are not intended to reflect all duties performed within the job. Other duties may be assigned. To perform this job successfully, an individual must be able to satisfactorily perform each essential duty. The requirements listed below are representative of the knowledge, skill and/or ability required. Reasonable accommodation may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions of the position.

Wage/Salary Range: $120k-140k

Applicants will be notified via phone or email within ten (10) business days of submittal.

Essential Duties & Responsibilities

• Author, maintain, and prioritize product backlog to ensure highest value delivery in collaboration with IT and business stakeholders, including Agile coach, product owners, cross-functional development team members, and requestors.
• Proficiently facilitate scoping and requirements elicitation sessions for projects while maintaining goal focus and managing group dynamics.
• Build, sustain, and leverage relationships with persons within his/her area of immediate responsibility when gathering, validating and approving requirements.
• Gain an understanding of the stakeholder's business culture and priorities and the need for different requirement gathering techniques.
• Identify sources of requirements, including impacts from vendor supplied documentation, and clearly communicate potential solutions to business problems.
• Remain impartial in requirements discussions; confirm understanding by all parties involved when validating requirements.
• Recognize inconsistencies and gaps in a complex business process.
• Document effectively in requirements discovery sessions and meetings.
• Develop, own, and execute product roadmap.
• Translate product roadmap features into well-defined product requirements including epics, user stories, and acceptance test criteria.
• Collaborate with partners and customers to co-develop a roadmap and drive products and features from concept to launch in a fast-paced environment.
• Communicate platform goals and vision effectively to cross-functional delivery team.
• Partners with stakeholders and customers across the organization to inform the product vision, strategy, features, and prioritization.
• Turn data insights into products with actionable outcomes to the ultimate customer.
• Responsible for innovation and end-to-end launch of products.
• Promote and demonstrate Agile values and principles.
• Work in an Agile environment and continuously reviews the business needs, refines priorities, outlines milestones and deliverables, and identifies opportunities and risks.
• Collaborate with peers and related roles to establish guidelines and recommend practices for story writing and story refinement across the organization.
• Configure and Manage CI/CD tool set for commercial off the shelf software and custom developed solutions deployment in various Cloud platforms (including security compliance checks).
• Brainstorm for new ideas and ways to improvement software/data delivery.
• Provide technical guidance and educate team members and coworkers on cloud operations best practices.
• Perform troubleshooting and root cause analysis for Service Incidents.
• Proactively meet standards for information security and compliance in close cooperation with the Security Operations and Compliance teams.

Required (Minimum Necessary) Qualifications

• One year of experience with Containerization (Docker).
• One year of experience with Container orchestration systems management (Kubernetes, etc.).
• One year of experience with Release automation, (e.g., Jenkins), system administration, system configuration, and system debugging experience.
• One year of experience with Logging and Monitoring tools.
• One year of experience in scripting (Python, Ruby, JSON, Go, Bash.)
• One year of experience with large-scale, distributed COTS solutions deployed on Cloud.
• Must possess an Information Assurance Technician (IAT) Level II certification (e.g., Security +)
• Must have a bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Engineering or related field, or 5-10 year’s equivalent experience.
• Must possess or be able to pass a National Agency Check with Inquiries background investigation; requires US citizenship.

Knowledge, Skills, Abilities, and Other Characteristics

• A passion for system stability, performance, scalability or customer success.
• Previous participation in Incident Management team.
• Good communication skills, written and verbal in English.
• Well organized and can take direction and work independently.
• Work collaboratively with software engineering teams and cloud platform/service team.
• Curious and continuous learner.
• Experience in agile project management methods including milestones, progress status, proper documentation, and deliverables with the ability to prioritize.
• Strong interpersonal, communications, presentation,
• Ability to work effectively across the organization with other IT and Business departments.
• Critical thinking and problem-solving skills to work with complex systems containing many moving parts.
• Demonstrated research and analytical skills to define and solve problems and think creatively.
• Readiness to undertake assignments involving unfamiliar subjects, as well as work independently and productively, with the aptitude to learn quickly.
• Ability to work collaboratively on a team in a remote environment.
• Strong communication skills.
• Organizational skills to prioritize and plan work, multi-task and meet schedule.

Preferred

· N/A

Supervisory Responsibilities

• Hires and supervises direct reports.

DOT Covered/Safety-Sensitive Role Requirements

· This position is not subject to federal requirements regarding Department of Transportation “safety-sensitive” functions.

Necessary Physical Requirements

The physical demands described here are representative of those that must be met by an employee to successfully perform the essential functions of this role. Employees must always maintain a constant state of mental alertness. Reasonable accommodation may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions.

Essential and marginal functions may require maintaining physical condition necessary for bending, stooping, sitting, walking or standing for prolonged periods of time; most of time is spent sitting in a comfortable position with frequent opportunity to move about.

Work Environment

The work environmental characteristics described here are representative of those that must be borne by an employee to successfully perform the essential functions of the role. Employees must always maintain a constant state of situational awareness. Reasonable accommodation may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions.

Job is performed in an office setting with exposure to computer screens and requires extensive use of a computer, keyboard, mouse, and multi-line telephone system. The work described herein is primarily a modern office setting. Occasional travel may be required.

Additional Qualifying Factors

As a condition of employment, you will be required to pass a pre-employment drug screening and have acceptable background check results. If applicable to the contract, you must also obtain and maintain the appropriate clearance levels required and must also be able to obtain access to military installations.

Shareholder Preference

BSNC gives hiring, promotion, training, and retention preference to BSNC shareholders, shareholder descendants and shareholder spouses who meet the minimum qualifications for the job.

Bering Straits Native Corporation is an equal opportunity employer. All applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to any status protected by state or federal law, or any other basis prohibited by law.