Engagement Operations Product Owner (IFMC)

Mission Driven Research; Huntsville (AL); On-site; USD 110,000 - 160,000; Full time

Job summary

Mission Driven Research seeks an EO/IFMC Product Owner to prioritize and validate development software for the Engagement team. The role involves reviewing systems engineering concepts, providing guidance to developers, and delivering technical briefings to leadership on status, risks, and recommended actions for the IFMC mission.

The candidate will collaborate with program management to set priorities for capabilities and defects across each product increment and sprint, while ensuring

Qualifications

• Fluent in EO concepts: engagement planning/scheduling, threat evaluation, target selection, battlespace prediction, sensor resource management.
• Minimum of 10 years combined Government/DoD experience performing essential duties.

Responsibilities

• Owns prioritization and validation of development software for Engagement team.
• Reviews and guides development team; attends code reviews and provides oversight of EO SW.
• Delivers technical briefings to leadership on status, risks, and recommended actions for IFMC mission.
• Sets priorities with Program management for capabilities and defects per product increment and sprint.

Skills

IBCS knowledge

PATRIOT

MEADS

THAAD

C2BMC

AEGIS

Microsoft Office

Education

Bachelor's degree (or advanced degree) in engineering, the sciences, or mathematics

Tools

SCRUM

Job description

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 will include 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 will include technical briefings and advisement to leadership on the status and recommended courses of action, competing capabilities, performance, risks, and impacts on the IFMC mission.

Basic Qualifications:

The candidate must have a basic understanding of Engagement Operations (EO) concepts including engagement planning/scheduling, threat evaluation, target selection, battlespace prediction, and sensor resource management. The candidate must have the ability to provide oversight to an EO SW development team and verify the team's work based on agreed-upon acceptance criteria, including attending code reviews. The candidate must be able to work directly with the Agile software developers.

The candidate must:

• Be fluent in the Microsoft Office toolset
• Be a US citizen
• Have a bachelor's degree (or advanced degree) from an accredited college (ABET preferred) in engineering, the sciences, or mathematics
• Have a minimum of 10 years combined Government/DoD experience in performing the essential duties listed above

Other Qualifications:

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

Security Requirements:

Candidate must be able to obtain a Secret security clearance or higher.

Mission Driven Research is an Equal Opportunity Employer, including disability/veterans. 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.