Job Description :

Job Title: Cloud Product Owner

Location-Remote/Louisville KY

Rate $50/hr w2

Job Description:

Essential Functions of the Job:

  • Act as Product Owner contributing to business outcomes and roadmap definition, defining system roadmap required to meet core business outcomes, and creating high quality features and user stories to deliver on those outcomes.
  • Maintains the Product backlog using input from Stakeholders, responsible for the building, editing and maintaining of the team backlog encompassing all epics, features, user stories, defects and bugs.
  •     Responsible for ensuring backlog is ready for iteration planning, acting as the subject matter expert on the details and priority of all items in the backlog.
  •     Provide thought leadership on how scenarios and features will be implemented across the firm.
  •     Ability to manage multiple releases concurrently.
  •     Strong Stakeholder/consumer management by developing and sustaining strong working relationships with business and infrastructure teams throughout the firm.  Ability to present and represent owned services to senior leadership as needed.
  •     Partners with product engineer and delivery team to ensure deliverables are defined properly with appropriate acceptance criteria and ensuring final accepted products are of the highest quality.  Ensures the 'what' is needed, based on business needs, is defined so that the delivery teams can determine 'how' to deliver it.
  •     Working with the demand management team and stakeholders, prioritizes backlog and roadmaps based on stakeholder demand and Product vision.  Manages tradeoffs between scope and schedule with business demands and ensures business value is being delivered.
  •     Accountable for business use case gathering and definition.
  •     Accountable for Definition of Acceptance Criteria and User Stories to ensure the delivery team is empowered with the necessary information.
  •     Manages and publishes roadmaps to ensure Stakeholders are informed.
  •     Participate in team demos and retrospectives, accepting quality work while ensuring constant process improvement throughout the lifecycle.
  •     Coordinate dependencies across product lines with the product management team.

Knowledge and Skills Requirements:  

  • Demonstrated experience delivering results in an ambiguous and changing environment, the ability to work independently and be a self-starter.  Ability to function effectively under pressure in environments of rapid change and conflicting demands and crisis management
  •     Demonstrated continuous improvement, quality methodology and project/operations delivery skills
  •     Strong leadership skills and demonstrated creative problem-solving skills
  •     Demonstrated strong quantitative, analytical and conceptual thinking skills
  •     Excellent communication skills across; ability to communicate complex, technical concepts to executive staff, business sponsors and technical resources in clear concise language
  •     Strong customer management and negotiation skills and the ability to mediate opposing viewpoints and articulate the advantages of standards in a technical environment
  •     Exceptional ability to collaborate, openly communicate, present and negotiate effectively across disciplines, vendors, partners, and customers.

Experience:

  •  Minimum 2 years' experience as a product owner or program manager
  •  Minimum 2 years' experience with Agile/SAFe framework
  •  Minimum 2+ years' experience with cloud technologies such as Azure/AWS