Product Owner

Description:

Product Owner positions! Permanent Position / Direct Hire!
• Bachelor's degree or its foreign equivalent in Computer Science, CIS, MIS, Business, or related field.
• Participate and/or conduct discovery sessions for small to large-scale process improvement projects to identify opportunities for Automation.
•Partner with Process Improvement analysts to design TO-BE process flow using Lean Six Sigma principles.
• Develop and maintain the backlog, write user stories with completion criteria, create testing plans, and maintain the ongoing Automation related initiatives for a defined value stream.
• Partner with the business area subject matter experts, technical automation teams, solution architect and Product Manager to develop a deep end-to-end understanding of end-to-end design, build, and deployment of Appian application into production.
• Engage with cross-functional teams to develop business requirements in user stories, detailed acceptance criteria, test cases, and deployment plans.
• Work with the scrum master and product manager to facilitate the planning and execution of the Appian initiatives. Partner with leaders to plan product increment and sprint planning sessions for assigned initiatives.
• Coordinate with the business, product manager, and technical team to identify and provide support for solution designs related to production issues and enhancements.
• Apply Agile processes and methodologies to ensure projects are delivered on time, within budget, adhere to high-quality standards, and meet stated objectives. •Mentor junior team members to integrate them into the team with the objective of a high-performing, self-sustaining team.
Full time direct hire

Requirements
REQUIREMENTS
Product Owner
• Project Methodology: Agile Scrum, Rational Unified Process (RUP), Waterfall
• Business Modeling Tools: Rational Rose, MS Visio, UML, XMind
• Requirement Management Tools: Rational Requisite Pro, Jira, Trello
• Defect Tracking Tools: Rational Requisite Pro, Jira, HP ALM
• Operating System: Mac, MS Windows, Chrome OS
• Database: Oracle, SQL Server, Salesforce, SAP Fiori
• Data Visualization: Tableau, Power BI, SAP Lumira
• Quality Assurance: Software Application Testing Life Cycle
• Business Applications: MS Office Suite, MS Project, MS Access
• CRM/ERP: Service Now, SAP PPM, Oracle PeopleSoft

Ability to work in a project driven environment
Experience or desire to work in an agile environment