Job Description

General Dynamics Information Technology (GDIT) is seeking a Principal Product Owner to join our team and support our customers. As a member of our Agile team, you will support several complex and high-volume customer systems. The ideal candidate would have experience capturing user stories and lead scrum team including backlog management and sprint planning.

Responsibilities: 

  • Experience in communicating and working with stakeholders to translate the business vision into actionable requirements

  • Excellent requirements elicitation, analysis, documentation, and validation skills

  • Experience coordinating and facilitating meetings with clear agendas and in keeping participants on-track

  • Ability to create business and technical process and data flow diagrams

  • Ability to create clearly defined requirements as Epics and Features

  • Ability to create clearly defined user stories

  • Manage and lead the product development process

  • Keeping customers and stakeholders informed of the status of the product.

  • Act as the main point of contact between SAFe Agile teams

  • Manage and prioritize backlog items and optimizing the value of the product(s)

  • Assisting the scrum/product development team to meet the objectives of each sprint.

  • Adjusting and improving each iteration of the product before release.

  • Identifying areas of improvement.

  • Ability to coordinate across business and technical resources to get needed information on a timely basis

  • As a member of a scrum team, actively participates in daily scrum meeting to support requirements clarification and raise impediments impacting delivery

  • Participates in Program Quarterly Incrementation Planning sessions to assess work and establish development goals. ​​

    • Required Skills/Experience:

  • Bachelor's degree or equivalent in computer science, information systems, or related field

  • 5+ years of big tech or large commercial experience directly as a product owner/product manager.

  • Minimum of three years of experience capturing and writing User Stories

  • Minimum of three years of experience in a system engineering or software application environment

  • Previous product owner work experience

  • U.S. Citizen with existing or the ability to pass a Public Trust background investigation.

    • Desired Skills/Experience:

  • Experience working in SAFe (Scaled Agile Framework) or Agile/Iterative software development methodology including Scrum environment

  • Working knowledge of product development architecture

  • Proficiency in the use of analytic tools

  • Ability to prioritize effectively

  • Excellent knowledge of user-centered design principles

  • Ability to work with large teams

  • Excellent analytical skills, including the ability to integrate information from multiple sources 

  • Experience with Jira

  • Experience with Confluence

  • Ability to communicate complex technical topics to management and non-technical audiences 

  • Ability to work independently and interact regularly with government and non-government stakeholders at multiple levels of authority 

  • Ability to multi-task and work under pressure

  • Interpersonal skills including courtesy, professionalism, and a cooperative attitude.

  • Critical thinking, problem solving skills, written, and oral communication skills.


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