Product Owner

Job Description

**Position:** Product Owner

**Location:** Fort Collins, CO or remote (near a USDA facility)

**Summary:** ASRC Federal Highland Technology is a technical, professional services company providing state-of-the-art solutions to government and commercial clients. Our services include custom-engineered solutions that integrate with the latest technology, resulting in advanced information technology systems; business and management consulting services to assess client needs and reengineer processes; and strategic and tactical program expertise to support continuity and provide comprehensive oversight for mission-critical initiatives.

ASRC Federal Highland Technology is seeking a Product Owner with a strong technical background to join an agile development team and contribute to the delivery of complex custom software in an enterprise class web application environment.

**Responsibilities:**

* Focus on content and intent
* Bring the vision to the team
* Understand the what and why for each work item
* Understand the domain and the business
* Represent the voice of the customer to the dev team
* Maintain a clear backlog with high quality stories and be decisive about its content
* Lead decomposition, sizing and sequencing of work
* Prioritize work by considering all applicable information
* Coordinate and drive feature release decisions
* Collaborate effectively
* Build and maintain connections within and beyond the dev team
* Coordinate work with other teams
* Actively facilitate and participate in meetings and group chats
* Communicate concisely and balance disagreements
* Manage expectations and elicit feedback
* Document the progress of the team’s work in Jira and demo completed work
* Improve and help others improve
* Be available and accessible
* Share ideas and experiences
* Advocate for a high performing, positive culture
* Constantly find meaningful opportunities to improve and act upon

**Requirements:**

* Experience with backend systems (APIs or Databases)
* Strong analytical skills
* Strong understanding of software development processes
* Excellent communication skills
* Proven ability to work collaboratively with a variety of teammates and stakeholders
* Experience with feature decomposition, story writing and story splitting
* Experience with user centered design techniques such as story mapping, journey mapping, empathy mapping, etc.
* Solid understanding of Agile development methodologies

Successful candidate is subject to a background investigation by the government and must be able to meet the requirements to hold a position of public trust.

U.S. Citizenship, H1B Visa or Green Card, with 3-year residency required.

**Desired Skills:**

* Familiarity with tools for facilitation, communication, and refinement of work like JIRA, Confluence or Miro
* Experience with Application Lifecycle Management (ALM) tools such as JIRA
* Knowledge and experience with Scaled Agile Framework (SAFe)
* Experience communicating with a wide range of people at all levels of an organization including business sponsors and executives, architects, product managers, Scrum Masters, developers, QA engineers, etc.
* Familiarity with integrating COTS and custom software as part of an enterprise software solution
* Proficient in problem identification and root cause analysis

**Education and Experience:**

* Bachelor’s degree — Computer Science or related preferred
* 3+ years experience as Product Owner
* 7+ years of relevant work experience in lieu of a degree would be acceptable, especially if the experience is multi-functional (i.e., operations and development)
* Product Owner certification preferred

ASRC Federal and its Subsidiaries are Equal Opportunity / Affirmative Action employers. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, gender, color, age, sexual orientation, gender identification, national origin, religion, marital status, ancestry, citizenship, disability, protected veteran status, or any other factor prohibited by applicable law.

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