Product Owner- Vulnerability Management

Business Analyst/Product Owner Senior

The Business Analyst/Product Owner Senior is a member of the Cybersecurity Cyber Programs department responsible for defining the vision for timely and innovative products that provide value, challenge competitors, and delight the customer by collecting continuous feedback. This role may require collecting, analyzing, and documenting capabilities, features, user stories, and business acceptance for one or more highly complex cybersecurity products. Serves as a PO or, Scram team member. Manages clients’ priorities of features and requests. Works with multiple business partners within one or more business units to align technology solutions with business strategies. Demonstrates in-depth knowledge of a business area in the context of the business client’s team to identify and communicate how to automate Cyber hygiene and Vulnerability Management.

Functions

• Take the lead of scrum teams as the Product Owner. Providing vision and direction to the Agile development team and stakeholders.
• Identify and translate cyber security strategic vision and work with other Product Owners to plan and prioritize features.
• Ensure that the team always has adequate prior prepared tasks to work on.
• Brainstorm new features, promote team collaboration, and collect customer feedback. Conduct feasibility studies and draft proposals for evaluation by appropriate users and managers.
• Plan and prioritize product feature backlog and development for the product.
• Research and analyze the market, the users, and the roadmap for the product. Define product vision, roadmap, and growth opportunities.
• Assess value, develop cases, and prioritize stories, epics, and themes to ensure work focuses on those with maximum value aligned with product strategy.
• Provide backlog management, iteration planning, and elaboration of the user stories.
• Work closely with Product Management to create and maintain a product backlog according to business value or ROI. Support and participate in the formal reporting of capability delivery status.
• Led the planning of product release plans and set the expectation for delivery of new functionalities.
• Provide an active role in mitigating impediments impacting successful team completion of Release/Sprint Goals.
• Ability to identify and map Cybersecurity controls and communicate with the Product Manager and appropriate stakeholders/SMEs.
• Procure technical assistance to help in problem resolution. Keep abreast of Agile/Scrum best practices and new trends.

Qualifications

• In-depth knowledge of SAFe framework, Automate Cyber Hyginen, Vulnerability management, Active Directory Enhancement, NIST CS Guidelines, Nessus Tenable.
• Five or more years of related work experience.
• Bachelor's degree in a technical discipline such as Computer Science, Information Technology, Systems Engineering, or related field, or specialized training and equivalent work experience.
• Certification: SAFe 5.5/6 related, Business analysis certification such as the Certified Business Analysis Professional (CBAP).
• Minimum three years of experience with Jira, SAFe, etc.
• Proficient with Microsoft Office Tools such as Word, Visio, PowerPoint, SharePoint, and TEAMS.
• Proficiency with User Stories development and Demo presentation.
• Proficiency with technology solution assessments and validation.
• Ability to lead, design, and facilitate multiple concurrent workshops and deliver effective presentations that the client values.
• Demonstrated ability to independently manage and participate in multiple products\assignments with medium to high complexity.
• Possess the skills to initiate, evaluate, develop, and influence users to adopt solid, actionable recommendations.
• Excellent organizational and time management skills. Sharp analytical and problem-solving skills.
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills to both customers and technical staff. Team-oriented, business savvy, and adaptable.
• Ability to ensure compliance with guidelines, controls, policies, and procedures.

Preferred Qualifications

• Five to Seven years of experience working with project managers to plan business analysis and highlight risks and issues in a SAFe/Agile environment.
• Five to Seven years of experience working with business users to define accurate, meaningful, measurable business cases, capabilities, features, technical/non-functional requirements, and user stories.
• Five to Seven years of experience working with the stakeholders and customers to define acceptance criteria.
• Five to Seven years of experience partnering with product owners to ensure expectations and requirements are met and managed.
• Prior experience in Cyber Vulnerability Management, AD, and Nessus are highly desirable.