Senior Product Owner - Mission Software (TS/SCI)

Absolute Business Solutions Corp. (ABSc); Bethesda (MD); Remote; USD 135,000 - 245,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

401k with match

Health and wellness allowance

Education and training funds

Volunteer time off

Charitable match

Referral program

Living Our Values awards

Job summary

ABSC seeks a TS/SCI-cleared Senior Product Owner to lead mission software design, development, and deployment for the DIA-NDOC program. You will own portions of the product portfolio, guide teams, and translate Government priorities into actionable engineering work while delivering mission value.

The role centers on cross-functional collaboration across engineering, security, and operations. It requires strong Agile leadership, backlog management, and stakeholder communication in a tightly

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree in Engineering, Computer Science, Systems Engineering, or a related field with 12 or more years of relevant experience, or a master’s degree with 10 or more years of relevant experience.
• Active Top Secret clearance with SCI eligibility and ability to obtain and maintain a TS/SCI with CI polygraph.
• Experience as a Technical Product Owner, Development Team Lead, Systems Engineer, or similar leader within an Agile software-development team.
• Demonstrated ability to break complex problems into actionable steps.
• Experience managing and prioritizing product backlogs.
• Strong understanding of Agile methodologies and experience with GitLab, Jira, and Confluence.
• Experience facilitating Agile team ceremonies.
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills.
• Ability to lead cross-functional coordination among engineering, design, security, testing, operations, and project-management teams.
• Demonstrated ability to manage stakeholder expectations and relationships.

Responsibilities

• Manage, direct, coordinate, and provide technical direction for research, development, integration, deployment, and sustainment of NDOC mission applications.
• Own an assigned portion of the task order’s product portfolio and manage relationships and dependencies across applications and teams.
• Lead feature and requirements analysis, solution design, implementation planning, integration, test, sustainment, documentation, deployment, and system assessment.
• Develop, prioritize, and continually improve the Agile team backlog.
• Translate complex mission requirements into actionable features, user stories, acceptance criteria, and delivery plans.
• Facilitate sprint planning, backlog refinement, sprint reviews, demonstrations, retrospectives, and dependency discussions.
• Manage risks, elevate impediments, and maintain visibility into delivery commitments and stakeholder expectations.
• Ensure sound engineering, security, testing, and DevOps practices are followed.
• Communicate technical and programmatic status to Government and contractor stakeholders.
• Mentor mid-level and junior engineers and support their technical and professional development.

Skills

Agile leadership

Backlog management

Cross-functional coordination

Stakeholder management

Communication skills

Education

Bachelor’s degree + 12+ years

Master’s degree + 10+ years

Tools

GitLab

Jira

Confluence

Docker

Kubernetes

Jenkins

PostgreSQL

GraphQL

Kafka

RabbitMQ

Keycloak

Job description

ABSC seeks a TS/SCI-cleared Senior Product Owner to lead mission software design, development, and deployment for the DIA-NDOC program. You will own portions of the product portfolio, guide teams, and translate Government priorities into actionable engineering work while delivering mission value.

The role centers on cross-functional collaboration across engineering, security, and operations. It requires strong Agile leadership, backlog management, and stakeholder communication in a tightly