Technical Product Owner Job Description Template
Our company is looking for a Technical Product Owner to join our team.
Responsibilities:
- Take functional lead of the overall project teams as the Product Owner;
- Providing vision and direction to the Agile development team and stakeholders throughout the project and create requirements;
- Lead the planning for product release plans and set expectation for delivery of new functionalities;
- Ensure the value of the work the development team performs;
- Collaborate with, but not depend on, other technical team members to understand dependencies and order of technical deliverables;
- Provide backlog management, iteration planning, and elaboration of the user stories;
- Ensure technical requirements are clear, aligned, testable, accurate, and maintained;
- Ordering the items in the Product Backlog to best achieve goals and missions;
- Provide an active role in mitigating impediments impacting successful team completion of Release/Sprint Goals;
- Plan and prioritize product feature backlog and development for the product;
- Ensure that the team always has an adequate amount of prior prepared tasks to work on;
- Clearly expressing Product Backlog items;
- Keep abreast with Agile/Scrum best practices and new trends;
- Ensure the development team understand items in the backlog.
Requirements:
- 5+ years working in a Business Analysis or Product Owner role;
- Excellent organizational and time management skills;
- Familiarity with advanced QA and test automation tools strongly preferred;
- Strong technical background;
- Prior expertise working with clinical data in a Healthcare or Lifesciences company;
- Outstanding communication, presentation and leadership skills;
- Experience with SAFe or similar framework;
- Previous working experience as a Product Owner for 5+ year(s);
- 2+ years of experience with Behavior Driven and Test Driven Development (BDD & TDD);
- 3+ years working in an Agile Scrum style, Atlassian suite preferred;
- Industry experience (financial services, group insurance, voluntary benefits, health benefits);
- Demonstrable knowledge of 1 or more programming languages (prior developer experience preferred);
- Bachelor’s in Computer Science, Engineering or similar relevant field;
- Sharp analytical and problem-solving skills;
- Strong knowledge of application architecture.