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Technical Product Owner

Aditi ConsultingPeoria, IL🇺🇸United States

Quick overview

Salary$75 - $80/hr

SeniorityMid Senior

Work modeHybrid

LocationPeoria, IL, United States

Microsoft OfficeScrumBusiness AnalysisGenerative AIJiraAgile

Job description

Payrate: $75.00 - $80.00/hr
Position’s Contributions to Work Group:

The Technical Product Owner works intimately with the Scrum Team with the primary task of creating and managing the Product Backlog and to ensure everyone knows the priorities and assisting the scrum team to meet the objectives of each sprint

Typical task breakdown:

Responsible for maximizing the value of the product and the work of theDevelopment Team
Responsible for acting as Product Owner for larger, more complex projects with high value to the organization.
Responsible for creating, maintaining and prioritizing the Product Backlog according to business value for the life of the project
Communicate Product Backlog priorities to the team.
Act as the key decision-maker regarding what features the product will have.
Responsible for the vision of what is to be built, and conveying that vision to the team.
Collaborate with Lead Engineers on decomposition of epics and features into user stories that are small enough, or granular enough, to be achieved in a single sprint.
Negotiate business requirements and their release dates with Product and development teams.
Responsible for conveying the vision and goals at the beginning of every sprint.
Responsible for defect management and prioritization.
Work closely with key stakeholders throughout the organization.
Responsible for making decisions on release dates and content.
Represent the customer, interfacing and engaging with the customer.
Leading the Daily Scrum.
Lead the sprint planning, backlog grooming, retrospectives and sprint demos.
Inspect the product progress at the end of every Sprint and accept or reject the work that has been done by the Development Team.
Act as the voice of the team, communicating status externally.
Be a good role model of Scrum values; understand the framework and the roles of each team member.
Be a champion for the agile community and help to further the community within the organization.

Education & Experience Required:

Bachelor’s and or Master’s degree required
8-10 years’ experience in this capacity

Required Technical Skills:

Business Analysis: Knowledge of business analysis and the set of tasks, techniques and tools required to identify business needs; ability to recommend solutions that deliver value to stakeholders.
Decision Making and Critical Thinking: Knowledge of the decision-making process and associated tools and techniques; ability to accurately analyze situations and reach productive decisions based on informed judgment.
Effective Communications: Understanding of effective communication concepts, tools and techniques; ability to effectively transmit, receive, and accurately interpret ideas, information, and needs through the application of appropriate communication behaviors.
Software Engineering: Knowledge of software engineering; ability to deliver new or enhanced fee-based software products.
Software Product Business Knowledge: Knowledge of and experience with the business aspects and operation of a software product; ability to manage install base, current uses, future plans, and product vision.

Consideration For Top Candidates:

Experience as a technical product owner
Previous experience working with or leading a technical team while simultaneously managing multiple projects.
Must have a strong understanding and proven experience in software development, including Java 17 or newer, RESTful APIs, databases, and AWS cloud development, with a focus on designing and developing cloud-native software solutions at scale.
Experience managing product backlogs using Agile software tools such as Azure DevOps, JIRA, Mingle, VSTS, Team Services, Rally.
Experience working with onshore/offshore team model.
Experience using GenAI tools like GitHub Copilot, Microsoft 365 Copilot, etc.

Pay Transparency: The typical base pay for this role across the U.S. is: $75.00 - $80.00/hr. Non-exempt positions are eligible for overtime at a rate of 1.5 times the base hourly rate for all hours worked in excess of 40 in a work week, or as required by state or local law. Final offer amounts, within the base pay set forth above, are determined by factors including your relevant skills, education and experience. Full-time employees are eligible to select from different benefits packages. Packages may include medical, dental, and vision benefits, health savings accounts with qualified medical plan enrollment, 10 paid days off, 3 days paid bereavement leave, 401(k) plan participation with employer match, life and disability insurance, commuter benefits, dependent care flexible spending account, accident insurance, critical illness insurance, hospital indemnity insurance, accommodations and reimbursement for work travel, and discretionary performance or recognition bonus. Sick leave and mobile phone reimbursement provided based on state or local law.
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