Principal Product Owner

General Dynamics Information Technology (GDIT) is seeking a Principal Product Owner to join our team and support our customers. As a member of our Agile team, you will support several complex and high-volume customer systems. The ideal candidate would have experience capturing user stories and lead scrum team including backlog management and sprint planning.

Responsibilities: 

• Experience in communicating and working with stakeholders to translate the business vision into actionable requirements

• Excellent requirements elicitation, analysis, documentation, and validation skills

• Experience coordinating and facilitating meetings with clear agendas and in keeping participants on-track

• Ability to create business and technical process and data flow diagrams

• Ability to create clearly defined requirements as Epics and Features

• Ability to create clearly defined user stories

• Manage and lead the product development process

• Keeping customers and stakeholders informed of the status of the product.

• Act as the main point of contact between SAFe Agile teams

• Manage and prioritize backlog items and optimizing the value of the product(s)

• Assisting the scrum/product development team to meet the objectives of each sprint.

• Adjusting and improving each iteration of the product before release.

• Identifying areas of improvement.

• Ability to coordinate across business and technical resources to get needed information on a timely basis

• As a member of a scrum team, actively participates in daily scrum meeting to support requirements clarification and raise impediments impacting delivery

• Participates in Program Quarterly Incrementation Planning sessions to assess work and establish development goals. ​​

Required Skills/Experience:

• Bachelor's degree or equivalent in computer science, information systems, or related field

• Minimum of three years of experience capturing and writing User Stories

• Minimum of three years of experience in a system engineering or software application environment

• Previous product owner work experience

• U.S. Citizen with existing or the ability to pass a Public Trust background investigation.

Desired Skills/Experience:

• Experience working in SAFe (Scaled Agile Framework) or Agile/Iterative software development methodology including Scrum environment

• Working knowledge of product development architecture

• Proficiency in the use of analytic tools

• Ability to prioritize effectively

• Excellent knowledge of user-centered design principles

• Ability to work with large teams

• Excellent analytical skills, including the ability to integrate information from multiple sources 

• Experience with Jira

• Experience with Confluence

• Ability to communicate complex technical topics to management and non-technical audiences 

• Ability to work independently and interact regularly with government and non-government stakeholders at multiple levels of authority 

• Ability to multi-task and work under pressure

• Interpersonal skills including courtesy, professionalism, and a cooperative attitude.

• Critical thinking, problem solving skills, written, and oral communication skills.

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