Technical Product Owner

We are looking for two Product Owners to join our team for a long-term contract opportunity!

• Initiate and translate product road map into manageable product backlog in collaboration with Product Managers and key business stakeholders.
• Own and prioritize Team Backlog.
• Responsible for defining and accepting User Stories.
• Ensures Product Management team has insight and understanding in Product and effective prioritization of Backlog Items.
• Liaise with Product Manager to understand the features and changes in product requirements and support the release planning and sprint planning exercises.
• Full Understanding of Epic, Feature, Story breakdown and alignment to backlog.
• Establish partnership and working alignment with Delivery team and Product Management team enabling value driven delivery.
• Keen understanding of the Product(s) and serves as a Subject Matter Expert to the team and external partners.
• Serve as mentor for junior Product Owners cultivating and growing skillset, Agile mindset, and ability to unlock value delivery.
• Champion and drive delivery through the Five Levels of Agile Planning: Vision, Roadmap, Release Plan, Sprint Plan, Day Plan.
• Understanding of IT Technology and Applications with the ability to support Technical Product Owners with direction and alignment.

• Data Background
  • 3+ years of experience in relational and non-relational data research/mining, data transformations, and/or data streaming required.
• Agile
  • Proven experience collaborating with medium sized Agile teams (e.g. 5+ member teams). 3+ years in an Agile environment required.
• Software Development
  • 2+ years in Software Development environment or working with delivery teams.

• Proven experience writing both business user and technical stories. 2+ years in a Product Owner role is preferred.
• Agile Certifications are preferred, including but not limited to CSPO, A-CSPO, CBAP, PO/PM.