Agile Product Owner

About the position

Leidos is looking for an Agile Product Owner/Release Train Engineer to join our team responsible for the integration, operations, and sustainment of various operational and in-development systems. This position will manage a systems team made up of devops, systems engineers, systems administrators, and testers tasked to deliver the next generation of Geospatial Intelligence technologies to our customer. A successful candidate will have experience with Agile methodologies and the various tools necessary to run agile teams, as well as the ability to participate in release planning events, daily scrums, and other technical discussions as needed. The effort will harness GOTS, COTS and Custom technologies to deliver advanced production and dissemination capabilities using desktop, web and cloud technologies.

Responsibilities

• Drive product delivery through keen understanding of the customer, mission, and product requirements
• Develop the team roadmap and support the team as needed to deliver on commitments
• Plan and prioritize epics, features, stories, and bugs
• Proven ability to write technical tasks with business value for the customer
• Help define, document, and track the completion of Epics, Stories, Tasks, and Bugs
• Communicate with other Product owners and scrum masters, program leadership, customers, and development teams
• Support agile meetings such as daily scrum, retrospectives, and program increment planning
• Assist with other management tasks as necessary to support task order operations

Requirements

• Must possess an active Top Secret Security Clearance with the ability to obtain SCI post hire
• Requires BS degree and 8-12 years of prior relevant experience or Masters with 6-10 years of prior relevant experience; OR 4 years of experience in lieu of degree
• Defines and manages the team roadmap
• Develops and proposes new ideas regarding technical solutions and processes
• Proactive self-starter demonstrating a positive, willing attitude and excellent oral and written communication skills
• Ability to lead cross team meetings and drive results across the task order
• Agile Development knowledge and experience
• Strong analytical skills and the ability to pay careful attention to detail
• Capacity to work well in groups and the ability to lead a team
• Communicates regularly with key internal and external stakeholders often regarding critical/high priority issues
• Strong briefing skills and experience presenting to senior customer management
• Must be a U.S. Citizen

Nice-to-haves

• SAFe Agile Certification
• 2+ years experience as a Scrum Master
• Certified Product Owner
• Certified Scrum Master
• Understanding of AWS/Cloud technologies
• Proven experience managing multiple baselines across multiple environments
• Experience with collaboration tools including Jira/Confluence and Rocketchat
• Experience with ArcGIS or geospatial technologies
• Experience with DevSecOps best practices and technology including Gitlab CI/CD
• Experience with infrastructure automation tools such as Cloud Formation, Chef, Ansible

Benefits

• Competitive compensation
• Health and Wellness programs
• Income Protection
• Paid Leave
• Retirement