Job Description :
Launch Your Career with Cook Systems
Ready to elevate your career? Cook Systems, a certified veteran owned IT consulting firm, has been transforming businesses and careers since 1990. Whether you're aiming to work with a Fortune 500 company or a small business, we've got you covered.
Our core values: integrity, investment, and innovation drive everything we do, ensuring you grow and succeed in a dynamic, supportive environment. We understand the importance of work life balance and personal growth. Our cutting edge IT consulting partners and FastTrack talent program are designed to help you excel.
Join our forward thinking team where excellence and creativity are valued every day. Check out what our associates have to say on Glassdoor. Ready to take your career to new heights? Cook Systems is where your journey to success begins!
Requirements & Experience: 3 -5+ years? experience overall
Top Skills Requested:
Effective Communication: The ability to clearly convey information and ideas to stakeholders and the development team is crucial. This includes both verbal and written communication skills.
Need to ability to understand and be able to read the room.
Requirement Management: The skill to gather, analyze, and manage requirements from stakeholders. This involves understanding their needs and translating them into actionable tasks for the Rely team. Some interpretation needed on style and approach.
Prioritization: The capability to prioritize requirements and tasks to ensure that the development efforts are aligned with stakeholder needs and project goals. This involves decision-making and strategic thinking.
The Product Owner (PO) for the Rely Team plays a crucial role in driving the vision, strategy, and execution of the team?s products and services. The PO serves as the bridge between business stakeholders, development teams, and end users, ensuring that solutions are aligned with business goals and deliver value. The ideal candidate must possess a blend of technical acumen, business analysis skills, and Agile expertise to effectively manage product development cycles.
Key Responsibilities & Daily Duties
Backlog Management & Prioritization
? Own and manage the product backlog, ensuring it is well-defined, organized, and continuously refined.
? Prioritize backlog items based on business impact, user needs, technical feasibility, and dependencies.
? Ensure all backlog items align with the Rely team?s goals and overall product strategy.
? Work closely with stakeholders to gather feedback and adjust backlog priorities accordingly.
Planning & Execution
? Partner with the Scrum Master and development team to plan sprint goals, objectives, and scope.
? Ensure backlog items are properly groomed before sprint planning sessions.
? Actively participate in daily stand-ups, sprint reviews, and retrospectives to remove roadblocks and provide clarity.
? Validate completed work against acceptance criteria and provide feedback to the development team.
Stakeholder Collaboration & Communication
? Act as the primary liaison between business units, customers, and technical teams.
? Gather and translate business needs into actionable development tasks.
? Conduct regular product demonstrations and sprint reviews to showcase progress and gather feedback.
? Ensure transparency in product decisions and communicate changes effectively to all stakeholders.
Technical Documentation & Case Development
? Develop business cases for new product features or enhancements, including cost-benefit analysis.
? Maintain and update technical documentation, including product roadmaps, process flows, and feature specifications.
? Work closely with engineering teams to document system behaviors, API interactions, and integration points.
? Ensure all documentation is accessible and up-to-date in Confluence, Jira, or other relevant tools.
Product Release & Deployment Planning
? Experience managing end-to-end product release cycles, including UAT, deployment, and post-release monitoring.
? Ability to work closely with QA teams to ensure feature releases meet performance and security requirements.
? Familiarity with CI/CD pipelines and Agile DevOps processes is a plus.
? Strong experience translating technical concepts into business-friendly language and vice versa.
? Ability to work with executives, developers, UX designers, and end users to ensure alignment.
? Experience leading cross-functional team discussions and executive-level presentations.
Technical Understanding
? Basic knowledge of APIs, databases, and cloud technologies to facilitate conversations with development teams.
? Familiarity with software development life cycle (SDLC) methodologies and enterprise system integrations.
? Experience working in a SaaS, cloud-based, or enterprise application environment is a plus.
Preferred Tools & Platforms
- Jira ? Backlog management, sprint tracking, reporting, Required
- Confluence ? Documentation and knowledge sharing, Required
- Tableau ? Data visualization and reporting.
- Science Logic ? High level understanding, but not critical
- Control-M ? High level understanding, but not critical
Why Work with Us
Benefits
At Cook Systems, we don't just offer jobs we build futures. Our team is the heart of everything we do, and we're committed to supporting you with benefits that go beyond the basics. We want you to feel secure, valued, and empowered from the very beginning of your journey with us. When you join Cook Systems, here's what you can look forward to:
Your Health, Your Way: Choose from two comprehensive medical plans through Blue Cross Blue Shield, complete with dental and vision coverage. With access to one of the nation's largest networks, you'll get the care you need for yourself and your family wherever life takes you.
Peace of Mind, Every Step of the Way: Protect what matters most with life, critical illness, and accident insurance through Unum. Because your loved ones deserve security no matter what the future holds.
Flexibility for Life's Needs: Save money and plan ahead with a Flexible Spending Account and Daycare FSA through Navia, helping you manage healthcare and dependent care expenses on your terms.
Bridging the Gaps: Unexpected costs? No problem. Our Health Gap Insurance through Sunlife helps ensure you're covered when it counts.
Your Future Starts Now: Dream big with our 401(k) retirement plan through The Standard. After just six months, you will be eligible to participate, because your future deserves a strong foundation.
At Cook Systems, you're not just another employee you're family. Here, your ideas matter, your contributions shine, and your career will thrive. Together, we innovate, grow, and celebrate success every step of the way. Are you ready to be part of something bigger? Let's build the future together at Cook Systems.