Lean-Agile SAFe Product Owner

Company: ECOM - Elite Computer Consultants, Inc.
Location: Kansas City
Posted on: March 28, 2020

Job Description:

Lean-Agile SAFe Product Owner The Lean-Agile SAFe Product Owner, is a member of a Lean-Agile SAFe development team and ensures alignment to the Agile Release Trainrsquos (ART) program vision. You help to maintain conceptual and technical integrity of the features or components for which the team is responsible. Other primary responsibilities are to define and prioritize the product backlog in order to streamline the execution of business priorities of the ART. You interact with Product Managers along with development team(s), business users and other partners to identify, groom and prioritize stories for the product backlog, ultimately helping to deliver technology and business solutions. RESPONSIBILITIES bull Liaise between technical and non-technical users, ensuring parties involved have an understanding and gain knowledge of the application andor business considerations. bull Articulate and translate the product vision from feature(s) into stories with clearly defined acceptance criteria for a particular product. bull Assist the team in story definition, estimation, and sequencing for PI Planning events verify stories are testable and can be used to generate testing objectives. bull Own scrum team backlog (grooming, prioritization and refinement) including delivery of MVP. bull Work day-to-day with the scrum teams clarifying business requirements, removing roadblocks, constantly communicating and gaining alignment around feature or product strategy. bull Participate in validation and testing of features prior to end user acceptance. bull Set the quality standard for delivery. Develops test plans (user story acceptance criteria), accepts each story and potentially features and participates in team demos and retrospectives to validate quality, provide feedback to team and improve team processes. bull Validate user stories meet their pre-determined acceptance criteria, and that quality is built into the product with every story. bull Coordinate dependencies with other Product Owners when deliverables are dependent on another team for completion. bull Serve as the knowledge resource for questions from the development team. REQUIRED EXPERIENCEEDUCATION bull Bachelor's degree in relevant field (e.g. economics, computer science, mathematics) some combination of business and technology education is highly preferred, or have related work experience. bull Minimum of 3+ years experience in business, engineering, technology andor consulting. bull Knowledge of Agile development methodologies and businesssystems analysis. bull Experience crafting and delivering solutions to management across research, portfolio analysis, risk analysis, portfolio construction, and trading. bull Experience managing a suite of vendor applications, with preferred experience with FactSet, Bloomberg andor related platforms. bull Skill in analyzing data to find opportunities for technology to provide business value. bull Strong experimental mindset to drive innovation amidst uncertainty. bull Able to influence diverse team members using leadership and communication skills. bull Strong aptitude in learning new tools and technologies to be able to work effectively in a rapid growth environment. bull Model our Winning Behaviors - Client Focused, Courageous and Accountable, Collaborative, Curious and Adaptable, Competitive Drive bull SAFe Product Owner certification preferred bull Scaled Agile (SAFe) experience preferred

Keywords: ECOM - Elite Computer Consultants, Inc., Kansas City , Lean-Agile SAFe Product Owner, IT / Software / Systems , Kansas City, Kansas