Technical Product Owner - Lead (W2 Requirement)

Role: Technical Product Owner – Lead (W2 Requirement)

Location: Denver CO (Onsite)

Duration: Long term

High-level job responsibilities:

As a Lead Technical Product Owner and BA, you will work in a fast paced environment and collaborate cross-functionally with the project management, architecture, and other subject matter experts at EchoStar. With these teams you will work to deliver API integration across our retail wireless applications. The ideal candidate is experienced in implementing modern cloud-based platforms and tools, has an entrepreneurial mindset, strong communication skills, and excellent critical thinking skills. You will play a huge role in bridging the gap between the development team and our clients.

Create relationships with various stakeholders in order to get information, clear blockers, and push back when needed

Driving the product vision and utilizing it to create a dynamic product feature roadmap

Acting as the user proxy for the team and seek clarification from stakeholders and customers to understand the business need of a feature

Identify opportunities for improving existing processes and ability to implement said changes as a leader within the development team

 Day-to-day job responsibilities

Decomposing product and service features into workable user stories

Continually prioritizing and grooming product backlogs for cross-functional, full-stack integration teams. Liaison between requests for new functionality and development team.

Lead Scrum activities for the development team

Coordinating cross-team delivery, managing dependencies, and defining best practices

Sharing and evangelizing the work completed, product backlog, and Scrum team metrics.

Skills and experience

High-level qualifications:

Technical in API development and integration. Strong interpersonal and communication skills and working knowledge of enterprise solution architecture principles. Self-starter and ability to figure out a complicated environment. Strong telecom background and BA experience

Specific qualifications:

8+ years of strong Agile experience with leading and implementing agile practices.

5+ years of enterprise product ownership experience

7+ years of enterprise software/API integration experience

Experience creating targeted systems analysis documentation, sample JSON, API contracts, flow charts or other technical docs

Ability of performing troubleshooting assistance

Must have experience working with offshore teams

Wireless retail experience is a big plus

Order system processing and design experience is a big plus

AWS experience with Lambdas and Step Functions is a plus

Apigee experience a plus

Experience with the following technologies/areas: Java, SpringBoot, Python, and OpenAPI Spec are a plus