Technical Product Owner

Job Summary

Coordinates with the Scrum Master, Delivery Team, and Product Managers in various planning events including Sprint Planning, Program Increment (PI) Planning, etc.

Initiate and translate product road map into manageable product backlog in collaboration with Product Managers and key business stakeholders

Own and prioritize Team Backlog

Responsible for defining and accepting User Stories

Ensures Product Management team has insight and understanding in Product and effective prioritization of Backlog Items

Liaise with Product Manager to understand the features and changes in product requirements and support the release planning and sprint planning exercises

Full Understanding of Epic, Feature, Story breakdown and alignment to backlog

Establish partnership and working alignment with Delivery team and Product Management team enabling value driven delivery

Keen understanding of the Product(s) and serves as a Subject Matter Expert to the team and external partners

Serve as mentor for junior Product Owners cultivating and growing skillset, Agile mindset, and ability to unlock value delivery

Champion and drive delivery through the Five Levels of Agile Planning: Vision, Roadmap, Release Plan, Sprint Plan, Day Plan

Qualifications

• Data Background 3+ years of experience in relational and non-relational data research/mining, data transformations, and/or data streaming required.
• Agile Proven experience collaborating with medium sized Agile teams (e.g. 5+ member teams). 3+ years in an Agile environment required. Proven experience writing both business user and technical stories. 2+ years in a Product Owner role is preferred. Agile Certifications are preferred, including but not limited to CSPO, A-CSPO, CBAP, PO/PM
• Software Development 2+ years in Software Development environment or working with delivery teams
• General Clear and concise communication skills Sharp analytical and problem-solving skills Sense of curiosity, with natural ability to think upstream and downstream
• Airline Industry Experience Preferred
• Ability to resolve team conflict

Benefits

All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, disability, or status as a protected veteran.

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