Product Owner (Security Cleared - SC)

GCS Recruitment; United States; Remote; USD 100,000 - 140,000; Full time

Job summary

GCS Recruitment Specialists is seeking a Security Cleared Product Owner in the United States with strong API integration experience. You will own the product roadmap, manage backlogs, and define user stories for agile releases, while coordinating with stakeholders to ensure timely delivery.

The role requires maintaining security clearance and leading product management activities in a fast-paced environment. Strong organisational and communication skills are essential.

Qualifications

• Security clearance or eligibility is required.
• Experience as a Product Owner in an Agile/API integration environment.

Responsibilities

• Incorporate feature requests into a product roadmap.
• Review and prioritise backlog.
• Develop user stories and define acceptance criteria.
• Set sprint goals.
• Write acceptance tests.
• Plan releases and upgrades.
• Follow progress of work and address production issues during sprints.
• Analyse preferences and requests of end users.
• Refine Agile methodology based on results and client feedback.
• Keep track of industry trends.

Job description

We are looking for Security Cleared Product Owner having strong epxerience with API integration environment. We are looking for either SC as Active or recently lasped.

Principal Accountabilities

1. Incorporate feature requests into a product roadmap
2. Review and prioritise backlog
3. Develop user stories and define acceptance criteria
4. Set sprint goals
5. Write acceptance tests
6. Plan releases and upgrades
7. Follow progress of work and address production issues during sprints
8. Analyse preferences and requests of end users
9. Refine our agile methodology based on results and client feedback
10. Keep track of industry trends

Complexity, Planning And Time Spans

• Management of own workload and time.
• Coordinating delivery dates
• Tracking and monitoring of Development work
• Reviewing, collating, maintaining and highlighting changes to agreed feature requests
• Identifying, assessing and reporting product risks and issues, engaging with internal and external contacts where necessary
• Maintaining financial controls and systems for recording, monitoring, forecasting and budgeting development expenditure and resources
• Organising and facilitating release closures, as well as ensuring release notes and user guides are available at release
• Maintaining and communicating product management standards and best practices
• Assisting in the maintenance, reviewing, and improving of departmental and product management office policies and procedures
• Producing weekly and monthly performance/status reports for the IT SLT and Stakeholders

Difficulties And Demands Of The Role

• Balancing the changing demands of the business

• Ensuring all elements of the product development are aligned to meet tight and demanding deadlines.

• Understanding and keeping on top of all the work that is going on across the business to ensure all work is aligned and doesn't' conflict.

• Strong organisation skills and management of time and information gathering skills.

• Clear understanding of the systems and a clear understanding of what needs to be delivered.

Typical Decisions Made By The Jobholder

• How best to implement a request and what impact it has on delivery.

• How to prioritise and weigh demands of requests from business based on impact and urgency.

• When a serious issue will delay the product release significantly or increase costs

• Where a major change in approach needs to be followed that will impact other teams working

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