CMR Product Owner

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KBR is seeking a highly motivated Product Manager to support NASAs Earth Observing System Data and Information System (EOSDIS) Evolution and Development 3 (EED3 contract. KBR is a subcontractor on RTXs EED3 team to provide Earth scientists and others access to data from NASAs Earth Science a member of the EED3 team you will work in a fastpaced Agile environment that ensures accurate and timely design development and deployment of products and services that allows the large collection of NASA earth science data to be more discoverable by the end user community. Search and Discovery is an Agile Release Train in which the products and services are built as part of the NASAs Earth Observing System Data Information System (EOSDIS) program which provides endtoend capabilities for managing NASAs Earth science data from various sources satellites aircraft field measurements and other programs. Search and Discovery products include the Common Metadata Repository (CMR).

As a member of the EED3 team you will ensure adherence to operational agreements and polices compliance with program and NASA standards and requirements leveraging of industry best practices for automation and scalability of assets and implementation of issue detection and alerts.

Fulltime telecommuting or remote working is available for this position.

*** Must be US Citizen or a Permanent Resident/Green Card holder. ***

Duties & Responsibilities:

The following duties are expected to be carried out by the Product Owner:

• Define and own the product roadmap for our largescale backend system aligning with business needs and technical feasibility.

• Work directly with engineers to evaluate plan and prioritize new features optimizations and architectural improvements.

• Ensure that performance benchmarks are maintained even as our dataset and API usage grow.

• Stay ahead of industry trends proactively identifying new technologies or approaches that could improve system scalability reliability and efficiency.

• Act as the interface between business and engineering translating highlevel goals into actionable technical plans.

• Drive technical discussions and ask insightful questions to ensure feasibility and identify risks early.

• Manage tradeoffs between shortterm delivery and longterm scalability making decisions that balance technical debt and future needs.

• Maintain a deep understanding of the system architecture API functionality and data storage constraints to ensure informed decisionmaking.
• Facilitate an engineeringfirst culture ensuring that technical excellence remains at the core of product development.
• Work with stakeholders to define clear success metrics for product performance and growth.

Required Education Experience and /or Skills:

• At least 6 years in a Technical Product Owner Technical Program Manager or similar role (Hands on experience / usage of the applications) with a strong focus on backend systems and API development (CMR).

• Technical background (engineering experience highly preferred) with a strong understanding of largescale data storage and backend infrastructure.

• Experience working with highvolume largescale databases (e.g. PostgreSQL MySQL NoSQL distributed storage solutions).

• Solid understanding of API development performance optimization and scalability challenges.

• Ability to ask deep technical questions and critically assess engineering decisions.

• Strong problemsolving skills and ability to navigate tradeoffs in a resourceconstrained highperformance environment.

• Experience working in lean engineering teamsyou understand how to move fast without the safety net of large ops or QA teams.

• Comfortable working with observability tools monitoring performance and troubleshooting issues with engineers.

• Excellent communication skills with the ability to break down complex technical concepts for nontechnical stakeholders and experience creating RACI charts.

Desired Qualifications:

• Handson experience with GraphQL STAC APIs or other geospatial data APIs.

• Experience working in highgrowth environments where backend scalability was a key focus.

• Familiarity with modern cloud infrastructure (AWS GCP or similar).

• Experience leading database migrations performance tuning or rearchitecting data storage solutions.

• Knowledge of distributed systems caching strategies and database sharding.

• Exposure to AI/ML approaches for largescale data analysis.

• Experience using Scaled Agile Framework (SAFe) particularly as a Product Owner.

Required Education: Bachelors degree in Computer Science Engineering or related technical field

This position requires a U.S. Person who is eligible to obtain any required Export Authorization.

this position may work remotely. Relocation is NOT available. Quarterly travel for a few days may be required for quarterly planning.

May have deep knowledge of project management. Advanced knowledge of related disciplines within work area and ability to identify links and potential impact on projects programs or systems.

Must be US Citizen or a Permanent Resident/Green Card holder.

Basic Compensation:

$115300.00 $173000.00

The offered rate will be based on contract affordability and the selected candidates working location knowledge skills and/or experience and in consideration of internal parity.

Experience and/or Education in lieu of these qualifications will be reviewed for applicability to meet these requirements.

KBR Benefits

KBR offers a selection of competitive lifestyle benefits which could include 401K plan with company match medical dental vision life insurance AD&D flexible spending account disability paid time off or flexible work schedule. We support career advancement through professional training and development.

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