Sr. Product Owner

Leidos; Bethesda (MD); On-site; USD 131,000 - 237,000; Full time

Job summary

Leidos is seeking a Sr. Product Owner for a Bethesda-based role focused on NDOC mission applications. You will decompose high-priority requirements, drive design, integration, and testing, and manage a product backlog within an Agile team. Most work is on-site at the client location with occasional remote tasks.

You will lead a team, mentor engineers, and coordinate with government and contractor stakeholders to ensure timely, quality software deployments. A Top Secret/SCI is required.

Qualifications

• BS in Engineering, Computer Science, Systems Engineering, or related field and 12 or more years of prior relevant experience or Masters with 10 or more years of prior relevant experience.
• Active Top Secret with SCI eligibility and ability to obtain and maintain TS/SCI with Polygraph.
• Experience as a Technical Product Owner, Development Team Lead, Systems Engineer or similar role in an Agile software development team.
• Demonstrated ability to break down complex problems into actionable steps.
• Experience managing and prioritizing product backlogs effectively.
• Strong understanding of Agile methodologies, and experience with Gitlab, Jira, and Confluence.
• Experience facilitating scrum events (Planning, Retrospective, Backlog Refinement).
• Excellent communication skills to articulate technical and non-technical concepts.
• Proven ability to work cross-functionally with engineering, design, and project management teams.
• Demonstrated ability to manage expectations with government and contractor stakeholders.

Responsibilities

• Manage, direct, coordinate, and provide technical direction for all aspects of NDOC’s mission applications.
• Provide technical support, coordination, and execution of systems engineering activities across design, implementation, integration, and testing.
• Take ownership of assigned portion of the task order’s product portfolio and manage programmatic relationships.
• Develop, manage and continually improve the backlog of work items for an Agile scrum team.
• Foster collaboration to deliver quality service and product to customers.
• Mentor mid-level and junior engineers on best practices and career growth.

Skills

Agile methodologies

GitLab

Jira

Confluence

Scrum facilitation

Team leadership

Communication

Security clearance

Technical Product Owner

Cross-functional collaboration

Education

BS in Engineering/CS/Systems Eng or related

Master's degree

Tools

GitLab

Jira

Confluence

Docker

Kubernetes

PostgreSQL

GraphQL

Kafka

RabbitMQ

Keycloak

Job description

Are you ready to join Leidos all-star team? Through training, teamwork, and exposure to challenging technical work, let Leidos show how to accelerate your career path.

Leidos has an exciting opening for you, as our next TS/SCI cleared Sr. Product Owner, to play a critical role with design, engineering, development and deployment of software supporting DIA’s National Digital Exploit and OSINT Center (NDOC) (formerly NMEC) under our 10-year DOMEX Technology Platform (DTP) contract. This position provides an opportunity to have impact as part of a mission-focused, solutions-oriented, and adaptive team that values innovation, collaboration, and professional development. The selected individual will work closely with the Lead Systems Engineer, Release Train Engineer, and government leads to decompose high priority requirements from the product roadmap into valuable delivered solutions, executing on requirements analysis, design, system integration, and system testing.

As a Sr. Product Owner you will lead an application team responsible for maintaining the continuous flow of new software enhancements and deployments, while you manage risks, elevate impediments, and help to drive continuous process improvement. While most work is conducted on-site at our client location in Bethesda, MD, we offer a flexible schedule and, occasionally, some tasks may be performed remotely.

You will work closely with the team on the following key tasks:

• Manage, direct, coordinate, and provide technical direction for all aspects of research, development, integration, and sustainment for NDOC’s mission applications.
• Provide technical support, coordination, and execution of systems engineering activities such as feature/requirements analysis, design, implementation planning, integration and test, sustainment, documentation, deployment, and system assessment.
• Take ownership of your assigned portion of the task order’s product portfolio and manage programmatic relationships across applications within the task and with other applications on other tasks
• Develop, manage and continually improve the backlog of work items for an Agile scrum team. Ensure sound engineering practices are followed.
• Foster an environment of collaboration with the different team members with the goal of providing quality service and product to our customers
• Act as a mentor to mid-level and junior engineers, offering guidance on best practices and career growth

To be successful in this role you need the following (required qualifications):

• BS in Engineering, Computer Science, Systems Engineering, or related field and 12 or more years of prior relevant experience or Masters with 10 or more years of prior relevant experience.

• To be considered, must have an active Top Secret with SCI eligibility and ability to obtain and maintain a TS/SCI with Polygraph.

• Experience as a Technical Product Owner, Development Team Lead, Systems Engineer or a similar role in an Agile software development team.

• Demonstrated ability to break down complex problems into actionable steps.

• Experience managing and prioritizing product backlogs effectively.

• Strong understanding of Agile methodologies, and experience with tools like Gitlab, Jira, and Confluence.

• Experience with facilitating scrum for the team (Planning, Retrospective, Backlog Refinement

• Excellent communication skills (verbal and written) to articulate technical and non-technical concepts to diverse audiences.

• Proven ability to work cross-functionally with engineering, design, and project management teams.

• Demonstrated ability to manage expectations and maintain strong relationships with government and contractor stakeholders.

You will wow us even more if you have some of these skills:

• Hands-on development and/or scripting experience, especially Java, Python, .NET
• Experience developing microservices and deploying them in containerized environments using Docker and Kubernetes.
• DevOps practices and tools including Continuous Integration/Continuous Delivery (CI/CD) tools and practices, especially Gitlab or Jenkins
• Strong testing discipline with a focus on automation, coverage, and CI/CD pipelines
• Experience with or knowledge of NMEC applications (e.g., Storefront, Harmony)
• Experience with Digital Forensics or multimedia content enrichment/image processing
• Experience with AI algorithmically driven processing systems
• Identifying tech debt, systemic issues, and areas for team/process improvement
• Experience with security best practices for services: authN/Z, secrets management, data protection
• Experience with any of the following technologies:
  • PostgreSQL
  • GraphQL
  • Kafka, RabbitMQ, or other message passing systems
  • Keycloak
• Cloud infrastructure experience

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Original Posting:

October 16, 2026

For U.S. Positions: While subject to change based on business needs, Leidos reasonably anticipates that this job requisition will remain open for at least 3 days with an anticipated close date of no earlier than 3 days after the original posting date as listed above.

Pay Range:

Pay Range $131,300.00 - $237,350.00

The Leidos pay range for this job level is a general guideline onlyand not a guarantee of compensation or salary. Additional factors considered in extending an offer include (but are not limited to) responsibilities of the job, education, experience, knowledge, skills, and abilities, as well as internal equity, alignment with market data, applicable bargaining agreement (if any), or other law.