Air and Missile Defense (AMD) Engagement Product Owner (PO)

About the role

Aviation & Missile Solutions, LLC. (AMS) is seeking a talented Engagement Product Owner to join our diverse team in Huntsville, AL., to create unique solutions for complex problems. AMS provides responsive, cost-effective engineering and scientific solutions ranging from air and missile defense technologies, command and control, radar systems, seekers, modeling & simulation, and prototype hardware development and testing. The Air and Missile Defense (AMD) Engagement Operations Team Product Owner (PO) will work as a member of the Army Program Acquisition Executive Fires (PEO Fires) Integrated Fires Mission Command (IFMC) Project Office. The PO will be responsible for the prioritization and validation of the development software for the Engagement team. The position includes reviewing and understanding Systems Engineering concepts, designs, and algorithms and providing guidance to the development team. The product owner will work with Program management in setting priorities for the capabilities and defects of the team for each product increment and sprint. The position also includes technical briefings and advisement to leadership on the status and recommended courses of action, competing capabilities, performance, risks, and impacts on the IFMC mission.

Responsibilities

• Prioritize and validate development software for the Engagement team.
• Review and understand Systems Engineering concepts, designs, and algorithms; provide guidance to the development team.
• Work with Program management to set priorities for capabilities and defects for each product increment and sprint.
• Deliver technical briefings and advisement to leadership on status, recommended courses of action, competing capabilities, performance, risks, and impacts on the IFMC mission.

Requirements

• Basic understanding of Engagement Operations (EO) concepts including engagement planning/scheduling, threat evaluation, target selection, battlespace prediction, and sensor resource management.
• Ability to provide oversight to an EO software development team and verify the team's work based on agreed-upon acceptance criteria, including attending code reviews.
• Ability to work directly with Agile software developers.
• Must be a U.S. citizen.
• Bachelor's degree (or advanced degree) from an accredited college (ABET preferred) in engineering, the sciences, or mathematics.
• Minimum of 10 years combined Government/DoD experience performing the essential duties listed above.

Qualifications

• Knowledge of IBCS, PATRIOT, MEADS, THAAD, C2BMC, or AEGIS and familiarity with current EO implementations in one or more DoD services.
• Prior Product Owner experience on a SCRUM team is a plus.

Skills

• Fluent in the Microsoft Office toolset.