Technical Product Owner

Lancope; Alpharetta (GA); On-site; USD 110,000 - 150,000; Full time

Job summary

Lancope, located in Alpharetta, GA, is seeking a Technical Product Owner to join our Agile product group delivering security solutions. The role involves creating clear user stories from business and architectural requirements and shaping backlogs for the platform team.

You will translate technical and business needs into actionable criteria, prioritize work, and ensure delivery aligns with product strategy and release timelines. A strong communicator with Agile experience is essential.

Qualifications

• 3+ years experience as a product owner or business analyst designing or developing software.
• Experience in an Agile/Lean software environment.
• Exceptional listening, written and verbal communication skills.
• Strong knowledge of networking essentials.

Responsibilities

• Analyze and breakdown market problems into prioritized, deliverable stories.
• Validate planned and delivered stories with customers frequently to ensure that market problems are solved.
• Manage multiple features at once and ensure work gets delivered in prioritized order.
• Drive requirements gathering and definition as needed for stories.
• Work closely with development teams to deliver stories that add customer value at a regular cadence.
• Be involved with all phases of development (analysis, design, coding, testing, deployment).
• Be a key driver in the implementation and management of our Agile/Lean Processes.
• Coach and mentor team members.

Skills

Product owner experience

Business analyst

Agile/Lean

Linux administration

SOA

Networking basics

Job description

Lancope is seeking a Technical Product Owner to work within our Agile product group delivering security solutions. The Technical Product Owner collaborates with business and technical teams to analyze market problems, build prioritized backlogs and work with development teams to deliver products. The Technical Product Owner is responsible for understanding and creating user stories for the functional requirements across our suite of products. Our Product Owners work with our product management team and development team to understand and coordinate product strategy, release timelines, and product quality.

The Technical Product Owner will work primarily with the platform team to continue to maintain both our software and hardware platforms. This individual will need to be comfortable writing user stories that are highly technical in nature and be able to easily translate functional business requirements as well as architectural requirements in to actionable criteria for the development team, prioritize these items, and translate the business value and impediments back to non-technical stakeholders.

Job Responsibilities

Analyze and breakdown market problems into prioritized, deliverable stories

Validate planned anddelivered stories with customers frequently to ensure that market problems are solved

• Manage multiple features at once and ensure work gets delivered in prioritized order
• Drive requirements gathering and definition as needed for stories

Work closely with development teams to deliver stories that add customer value at a regular cadence

Be involved with all phases of development (analysis, design, coding, testing, deployment)

Be a key driver in the implementation and management of our Agile/Lean Processes

• Coach and mentor team members

Requirements

• 3+ years experience as a product owner or business analyst designing or developing software

Experience in working in an Agile/Lean software environment

Strong understanding of capabilities and limitations of programming languages, middleware solutions, application servers and presentation layer tools is a plus, but not required

Exceptional listening, written and verbal communication skills

• Demonstrates initiative and competence; supports and encourages positive working behaviors in others
• Experience with Linux administration desired
• Experience with service based architecturesdesired
• Experience deploying in and developing for variety of hypervisorsdesired
• Strong knowledge of networking essentialsdesired

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