Technical Product Owner (SDLC, SCRUM, User story and requirements, Acceptance Criteria, User acceptance testing)

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We are looking for a Technical Product owner to join our highly Agile engineering team responsible for the high quality design and implementation of software architecture and its features. We’re looking for people with great business analytical skills that are quick learners, self-starters, and take ownership of their work. 

Responsibilities

• Engage directly with engineering team(s) on a daily basis
• Ensure user stores are complete with appropriate requirements and acceptance criteria and are properly ranked based on all stakeholder input
• Engage with multiple stakeholders, including Product, Customer Success, Engineering leadership, and Architects to ensure correct requirements are provided to the engineering team
• Represent the team’s interests in building maintainable, scalable solutions that also meet business requirements
• Collaborate with Technical Product Managers to standardize technical requirements, as appropriate, across components and systems

Key Skills

• 4+ years managing technical products, projects, or requirements
• Experience with SCRUM and Agile processes, SAFe® Product Owner and SAFe® Product Manager (POPM) certified preferred but not required
• Expertise in the Software Development Life Cycle
• Understanding of how to write detailed, technical requirements and stories with acceptance criteria
• Ability to articulate the business value of technical initiatives to business stakeholders
• Ability to articulate the business value of product and sales initiatives to engineering teams
• Exposure to a variety of technical environments and architectures
• Experience with web-based tooling, distributed applications and API
• Expertise with data modeling, API, and schema specifications
• Experience with JIRA and Confluence