Technical Product Owner (PO) with Java

Job Description:

Experience Desired: 5+ Years.      

Responsibilities:

• Product Management team and crucial member of the Agile Team.
• Sr.PO owns the Team / Sprint backlog representing the single source of truth and is the single point of contact to the Dev team and Customer team for user story details.
• The Sr PO is responsible for defining and refining user stories and prioritizing the Agile Team backlog to streamline execution of product (program) priorities while maintaining conceptual and technical integrity of features for the team.
• In this capacity the Sr PO remains highly available to the Dev teams during each iteration (sprint) in order to answer real time questions and provide clarity to user stories.
• The Sr PO also drives user story refinement activities ensuring Team backlog contains 2 iterations worth of 'ready' work for Dev team.
• These two functions are critical to enabling Dev teams to improve and maintain high velocity/productivity in iteration (sprint) execution. For this reason, a Sr PO supports a single Agile (Scrum),
• often supports multiple tams as part of complex initiatives.
• The Sr PO also has a significant role in quality control and is the only team member empowered to accept stories as done, ensuring the acceptance criteria has been met.
• This role has significant relationships and responsibilities outside their specific Agile team, including working with Product Management, who is responsible for the Product (Program) Backlog, to prepare for the Program Increment (PI) Planning meeting (Big Room Planning).
• The Sr PO also coordinates with other POs to align backlogs to complete large, cross-functional initiatives. In addition, the Sr PO mentors other Product Owners to ensure they are growing in their career and job acumen.