Agile Technical Product Owner

Note: Because of the current situation with the coronavirus the client will conduct phone and WebEx interviews. The position will be remote until the virus is no longer active then it will be an on-site position.

Top Skill Needed: Apttus

Role Summary
The Agile Technical Product Owner represents the "voice of the customer” at the team level, maintaining and prioritizing the Product Backlog, to ensure that the team is working on stories that maximize business value and deliver necessary fixes and functionality to their customers.

Responsibilities

• Serves as the Technical liaison to the supported business group by listening to and understanding key business objectives and strategy of the product
• Works with business owners to ensure that they are engaged and supportive of direction
• Works with Business Stakeholders to define and prioritize the Product Backlog (refinement)
• Assesses business value and prioritize all stories to ensure work focuses on those with maximum value that align with product strategy
• Creates User Stories and Acceptance Criteria, ensuring stories clearly communicate customer/Stakeholder needs to the development team; work with team to clarify stories as necessary
• Advises Business Stakeholders on decisions impacting product functionality
• Participates in and prepares for Program Increment Planning
• Involved in Program Backlog Refinement and decomposition
• Provides clarification on User Stories and Product Backlog to the team
• Supports UAT Testing and demonstrations by Tech and Business Stakeholders
• Accepts User Stories
• Participates in team demo, retro, and Inspect and Adapt
• Understands and supports inter-team dependencies, and escalate issues when necessary
• Ability to monitor potential risks and develop mitigation plans

Key Technical Skills

• Ability to manage the product backlog including writing user stories and acceptance criteria
• Knowledge of Agile development methodologies/tools and experience writing user stories
• Demonstrates good understanding of gathering feedback (using checking to validate requirements)
• Demonstrates basic understanding of the technology and the ability to have technical discussions.
• Understands basic software development and deployment that enables develops capabilities such as continuous integration and deployment
• Deep understanding of Agile development processes and methodology, including Story Mapping for decomposition
• Understands technical topics at a conceptual level as well as the systems and data that enable major capabilities and drives innovation.
• Understanding of customer needs and business strategy
• Salesforce and Apttus application knowledge preferred

Competencies

• Customer Focus
• Nimble Learning
• Manages Ambiguity
• Drives Vision and Purpose
• Optimizes Work Processes
• Courage
• Trust & Transparency
• Collaboration
• Demonstrates Self-Awareness/Development
• Instills Trust
• Builds Networks
• Strong Written and Verbal Communication skills

For more information please contact Tom Mazzulla at 336-701-1226 or [email protected]

Since 1995, iTech Solutions Inc., has been providing IT Consulting and Direct Hire Services to the Insurance, Financial, Communications, Manufacturing and Government sectors with local offices in Connecticut, Minnesota, Colorado, Massachusetts, Tennessee, North Carolina, and New Jersey / Pennsylvania area.

Our recruiting strategy is simple, if you want to find qualified IT professionals then use IT professionals to find them. So at iTech Solutions, our personnel are all career IT professionals with a wide range of IT experience. We can honestly say our staff understands the technologies, the complexities of finding and selecting the appropriate personnel and the pressures of running successful IT projects.

Employer will not sponsor applicants for any employment visas, at hiring or in the future, including but not limited to H-1B visas. Corp-to-Corp or subcontract personnel will not be considered for this position.