Technical Product Owner

Technical Product Owner
Grand Rapids, MI (Remote 100%), 6-state footprint, US Remote - IL,MI,WI,OH,IN,KY

The Technical Product Owner has 5+ years of relevant work experience. As part of the solution development team, the Technical Product Owner will take ownership of the application(s) as well as being responsible for working with software developers/ engineers and architects to provide consultative guidance and direction to the team. The Technical Product Owner will also be responsible for building out the backlog, approving cards and moving them to completion, managing code deployment, and leading the development team members.
Required Skills:
• Must feel comfortable with defining and planning work for development teams
• Previous experience as an Azure/.NET developer/ C# development background.
• Experience with Confluent Kafka is preferred
• Experience developing native MS Azure Cloud based applications is also required
• Experience collaborating with development and architecture teams to provide guidance on priorities
• Must have SAFe experience or relevant Agile experience and feel comfortable leading backlog refinement sessions and demoing the work completed by the development team to a larger audience
• Strong comfort using Azure DevOps or a similar tool (like Jira) to create work items for the development team.
• They will need to understand cloud based as well as on-prem applications.
• Strong understanding of Azure function apps/logic apps/durable functions is required
• The ideal candidate is someone who takes initiative in scoping out work for their development team.
• The candidate is organized, able to present/communicate in front of larger groups, able to collaborate with other teams
Candidates with experience in non-credit type Payment Methods/Government Assistance Program implementation as it pertains to e-commerce solutions is preferred.