Technology Product Owner

Position: Technology Product Owner
Location: Columbia MD
Duration: 5 Months

Job Description

Responsibilities:
Translate business needs into functional and technical requirements with clear and concise acceptance criteria by understanding the relevant business processes
Participates in prioritization and requirements refinement sessions
Define features and stories for technical breakdown and planning ensuring all requirements are well understood by the delivery teams
Assure consistent quality of production ready deliverables before promoting to business owners or end users by conducting or coordinating Quality Assurance Testing.
Coordinate frequently with relevant delivery teams to ensure successful completion of competing priorities and deadlines.
Use methodologies (both Waterfall and Agile) to manage workloads communicate progress ensure timely completion of deliverables and team adherence to maintaining accurately and consistently all delivery related metrics for assigned initiatives.
Provide ongoing business process business capability and product knowledge to relevant delivery teams and add to the existing knowledge base to avoid single point of failure knowledge gaps.
Responsible for progressing all deliverables to done status and meet acceptance criteria by coordinating production deployment postimplementation analysis/feedback and ongoing support plan.

Requirements:
Bachelors Degree
5 years of Product Ownership/Product Management experience owning one or more products in an Agile SaaS Technology environment or other equivalent methodology.
Ability to interact with all levels within the organization and work in a fastpaced environment with many initiatives.
Ability to manage a variety of business IT and vendor resources including managing vendor deliverables based on agreed contracts and statements of work
Ability to work independently and make sound decisions with minimal supervision and direction.
Strong analytical skills to resolve issues and determine effective business and alternative IT solutions.
Capability to influence and instill credibility in sponsors peers and subordinates by meeting initiative milestones deadlines and budget.