About the position
The Product Owner (PO) is a member of an Agile Development Team who speaks for the client/end user. The Product Owner is responsible for guiding the team to create and deliver solutions that meet client, business, and firm goals by breaking down and defining small workable tasks (user stories) and prioritizing the team backlog to streamline the execution of priorities. The PO creates and maintains stories, and prioritizes work for new or revised features or enhancements. The PO has a significant role in quality control and is the team member empowered to accept stories as done. The Product Owner position has significant relationships and responsibilities outside of the agile team, including working closely with Product Management, customers, business owners, outside partners, and other stakeholders. The PO is cognizant, transparent, and proactive in managing dependencies across multiple teams and disciplines.
Responsibilities
- Own the technical roadmap and adoption for an internal platform targeted to the developer community
- Facilitate story creation and refinement with the team, ensuring stories adhere to the Agile INVEST model, ensuring the technical feasibility of the requirements.
- Collaborate with product management, technical leadership, and technical teams to analyze the Firm's needs to ensure technical requirements and implementation align with business goals.
- Manage cloud-related duties, working with AWS and Azure to ensure seamless integration, performance, and cost efficiency.
- Oversee the deployment and operations of cloud infrastructure and DevOps practices, ensuring scalability, reliability, and security.
- Articulate and communicate product vision and user stories in a manner clearly understandable to teams so the team understands target objectives.
- Prioritize both in-flight and backlog work, including technical debt.
- Set Sprint goals.
- Monitor the team's progress and provide updates to leadership, product management, and stakeholders, as requested.
- Ensure compliance with the Firm's technical standards, industry standards, and best practices for cloud environments.
- Identify and mitigate potential risks related to cloud architecture.
Requirements
- Proficiency in deploying, configuring, and managing cloud infrastructure using AWS and Azure.
- Experience managing cloud services and solutions on AWS and Azure.
- Strong analytical, organizational, management, negotiation, and people skills.
- Strong decision making & analytical skills.
- Excellent verbal and written communication skills for technical and non-technical audiences of various levels in the organization (e.g., executive, management, team members, individual contributors).
- Ability to manage multiple projects simultaneously, flexibility, and adaptability to change, decision-making, and critical thinking skills.
- Experience with Kanban, the Scaled Agile Framework, Agile, or Scrum processes.
- Ability to understand evolving technologies and relate to current business demands.
- Experience with cloud cost management and optimization on AWS and Azure.
- Familiarity with cloud security best practices and compliance requirements on AWS and Azure.
- Ability to design and implement cloud-based solutions that meet business requirements using AWS and Azure.
Nice-to-haves
- AWS Cloud Practitioner or higher-level AWS/Azure certifications preferred.
Benefits
- Health, dental and vision care
- 401k
- Wellness initiatives
- Life insurance
- Paid time off
