Product Owner: OCC Web & Batch Solutions (Hybrid, GA/AL)

Fayette Chamber of Commerce; Atlanta (GA); Hybrid; USD 95,000 - 135,000; Full time

Job summary

Southern Company in Atlanta, GA is seeking a Product Owner to manage the OCC solutions within the Technology organization. The role supports system product enhancements, maintains a groomed backlog, and collaborates with stakeholders, developers, vendors, and QA to deliver high-quality, scalable solutions in a SAFe environment.

The position reports to the Customer Engagement Supervisor and requires strong analytical, backlog management, and excellent communication skills.

Qualifications

• Must have at least 3 years of working experience as Product Owner in Agile development teams.
• Knowledge of transactional web sites, batch processes, databases, APIs and integrated middleware applications
• Strong analytical, root cause analysis, and problem-solving skills with ability to elicit and efficiently document business rules and research technical issues
• Ability to prioritize & maintain well-groomed backlogs comprising of new features, bugs, technical debt, and knowledge acquisition with good planning and organization skills
• Ability to define clear acceptance criteria, work with Developers, QA & UA testers to ensure the quality and accuracy of the assigned area in the OCC product.
• Excellent interpersonal skills and strong proactive communications skills including the ability to communicate complex concepts clearly across different audiences at varying levels
• Engage with key stakeholders, such as business owners, vendors, marketing teams, and leadership, to understand their needs and gather feedback. Communicate product updates, progress, and timelines to stakeholders
• Excellent presentation skills to facilitate demos and support the team to deliver high‑quality releases on schedule
• Experience working in a fast paced, highly collaborative environment with cross‑disciplinary teams (Quality Analysts, Developers, Architects, and Analysts) and business groups (technical and non‑technical) to shepherd products through the SDLC
• Ability to identify and quickly implement process improvements, sound decision making skills and to work with minimal supervision

Responsibilities

• Define and communicate the product vision, strategy, and roadmap for solutions owned. Align the product roadmap with the overall business goals and objectives
• Be a primary resource and business/customer proxy and work closely with business units to ensure both common and specific business rules are identified and integrated into product design and development
• Develop, adapt and carry out product implementation plan throughout SDLC, supporting and championing the vision aligned with business goals
• Create, plan, and prioritize an effectively groomed backlog with clear acceptance criteria aligned with business objectives.
• Author epics, features and user story acceptance criteria and continuously refine and prioritize user stories based on business value, customer feedback, and market trends
• Obtain deep product and business knowledge to act as a subject matter expert for several roles including Dev and QA
• Define and instrument success criteria that is measured via qualitative and quantitative feedback and identify growth opportunities for the assigned functional area.
• Work with QA testers to ensure the quality and accuracy. Conduct user acceptance testing and validate that the product meets the specified requirements.
• Attend PI plannings, provide quality control, facilitate PI demos and review stories. Responsible for accepting stories as done.
• Be accountable for each stage of the development process and the final product while taking a primary role in inspecting and evaluating product progress & quality through each iteration.
• Manage business expectations, maintain communications, and bring issues to business’ attention proactively; offer solutions.
• Create and maintain product documentation, including user guides, release notes, and training materials. Ensure that documentation accurately reflects the features and functionalities of developed solutions

Skills

Product Ownership

Agile/Scrum

Stakeholder collaboration

Backlog management

Requirements analysis

UAT & QA support

Communication skills

Education

B.S. degree

Tools

SAFe

Job description

Southern Company in Atlanta, GA is seeking a Product Owner to manage the OCC solutions within the Technology organization. The role supports system product enhancements, maintains a groomed backlog, and collaborates with stakeholders, developers, vendors, and QA to deliver high-quality, scalable solutions in a SAFe environment.

The position reports to the Customer Engagement Supervisor and requires strong analytical, backlog management, and excellent communication skills.