Remote Technical Product Owner & Story Architect

Account Control Technology; Houston (TX); Remote; USD 75,000 - 92,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Medical, dental and vision

401k with employer matching

Paid time off and paid holidays

Job summary

Account Control Technology remotely seeks a Technical Analyst to join our product owner team, translating business needs into detailed technical user stories for development and QA. You will read PHP code, query MS-SQL data, and ensure acceptance criteria align with scope.

In this role, you will collaborate with stakeholders, product owners, and developers, participate in backlog refinement, and support QA to guarantee system behavior meets requirements. Remote work is supported.

Qualifications

• Experience as a Technical Analyst, Systems Analyst, or similar role supporting application development.
• Ability to translate business requirements into detailed technical user stories.
• Working knowledge of Microsoft SQL and the ability to query data.
• Ability to read PHP code and follow application logic.
• Understanding of application architecture, databases, integrations, and SDLC.
• Experience writing acceptance criteria and documenting business rules, dependencies, and edge cases.
• Strong analytical, problem-solving, and organizational skills.
• Clear written and verbal communication with technical and business teams.

Responsibilities

• Review business requirements and user stories to understand the requested outcome, business rules, and scope.
• Translate business requirements into detailed technical user stories for development and QA.
• Document system behavior, data needs, dependencies, edge cases, and relevant technical considerations.
• Write clear acceptance criteria that define how completed work will be evaluated.
• Identify gaps, assumptions, and conflicting requirements, and work with stakeholders to resolve them.
• Keep technical stories aligned with approved business needs and delivery scope.
• Read and interpret PHP code to understand existing system behavior.
• Use MS-SQL to investigate data, validate assumptions, and understand data flows.
• Analyze how changes may affect applications, integrations, APIs, data flows, reports, and related system components.
• Partner with developers to clarify technical questions and refine stories as implementation details emerge.
• Serve as a communication link among business stakeholders, product owners, developers, and QA.
• Explain technical details and system impacts in language business partners can understand.
• Participate in backlog refinement, sprint planning, and development discussions.
• Support QA by clarifying expected system behavior and acceptance criteria.
• Communicate changes to requirements, dependencies, and scope to stakeholders.

Skills

Technical Analyst

User Story Writing

Microsoft SQL

PHP Knowledge

System Architecture

Acceptance Criteria

Analytical Skills

Clear Communication

Tools

JIRA

Job description

Account Control Technology remotely seeks a Technical Analyst to join our product owner team, translating business needs into detailed technical user stories for development and QA. You will read PHP code, query MS-SQL data, and ensure acceptance criteria align with scope.

In this role, you will collaborate with stakeholders, product owners, and developers, participate in backlog refinement, and support QA to guarantee system behavior meets requirements. Remote work is supported.