We are looking for a Product Owner / Business Analyst who will serve as a member of the Application Development Team under the Division of Libraries and Technology. The Applications Development Team is responsible for enterprise architecture development system testing analysis and maintenance of systems that capture and report data. This includes but is not limited to applications that focus on finance budget and data collection and reporting applications that satisfy the needs of Wisconsins K12 education systems. These systems require extensive knowledge and experience developing complex applications reports and relational databases. This position is likely to be involved with the maintenance and enhancement of the departments largest and most complex enterprise applications. This person will be the Scrum Master for a development team practicing the Agile/Scrum development methodology in addition to providing quality assurance testing and customer support.
Required Skills:
Minimum 25 years experience using Agile/Scrum Development Methodology (CSM or CSPO certification)
Strong written and verbal communication skills
Ability to work in a team environment as well as independently.
Process a fundamental understanding of endtoend customer experience integration and dependencies.
Prepare business requirements and functional specifications.
Experience writing user stories with clearly defined acceptance criteria.
Ability to maintain good external vendor relations.
Ability to perform application quality assurance testing and system regression tests.
Ability to effectively groom a backlog.
Experience at refinement story splitting estimation velocity retrospectives and other scrum techniques.
Required Technical Skills:
Ability to grasp technical concepts and communicate to developers in a .NET based development environment.
Experience using relational databases (writing queries etc. using SQL Server.
Experience using Microsoft Azure DevOps or equivalent software to manage user stories and sprint backlogs.
Preferred Experience:
Experience working with education software systems at the school district or state levels.
Knowledge of data warehousing and reporting
Required Experience:
Senior IC