Data Science Product Owner

Description

• Work closely with a tight-knit team of data scientists as well as a larger team of software developers network engineers senior investigators program managers researchers and data analysts to design build and optimize a Data Science platform to produce and analyze results disseminate findings and contribute to publications and presentations.
• Provide a single point of contact for the D3P Data Science Team with government customers and stakeholders. Participate in requirements sessions briefings and status meetings.
• Develop manage and continually improve the backlog of work items for an Agile scrum team. Update and prioritize stories and epics via feedback from various program stakeholders ensuring the team is always working on the highest-value tasks.
• Provide technical support coordination and execution of product owner activities such as feature/requirements analysis design implementation planning integration and test sustainment documentation deployment and system assessment.
• Support Scaled Agile Framework (SAFe) program increment planning and execution through creation of work tickets as well as program/system documentation using collaboration software. Participate in all Agile ceremonies to include daily stand up planning reviews and retrospectives.
• Stay informed of increment and sprint progress and work with the team to identify and remove impediments and dependencies.
• Perform backlog refinement on a regular basis. This may include decomposing features into workable stories prioritizing or reprioritizing items in the backlog for upcoming sprints refining acceptance criteria and complexity estimates or removing tickets that are no longer relevant.
• Accept or reject completed work based on defined acceptance criteria to ensure delivery of high-quality software.

• BS Degree and 12-15 years of prior experience or Masters with 10-13 years of prior relevant experience in a quantitative or analytical field such as Engineering Computer Science Systems Engineering Mathematics Economics Statistics Engineering Physics or Computational Social Science or related field.
• 10 years of experience in data science analytics or quantitative intelligence analysis and demonstrating progressive technical development and outcomes.
• Must have an active TS/SCI with polygraph security clearance.
• Experience as a Product Owner Scrum Master or a similar role in an Agile software development team.
• Demonstrated ability to break down complex problems into actionable steps.
• Experience managing and prioritizing product backlogs effectively.
• Strong understanding of Agile methodologies and experience with tools for ticketing and documentation (e.g. Gitlab Jira Confluence).
• Experience with facilitating scrum for the team (Planning Retrospective Grooming & Review/Demo)
• Excellent communication skills (verbal and written) to articulate technical and non-technical concepts to diverse audiences.
• Proven ability to work cross-functionally with engineering design and project management teams.
• Demonstrated ability to manage expectations and maintain strong relationships with stakeholders.

• Experience with systems at scale
• Experience/knowledge of key Agile processes and techniques
• Experience with development i.e. Bash PowerShell SALT Python Groovy Java etc.
• Experience on a production/ enterprise system
• Experience with any of the following technologies:
• Kafka or other message passing systems (AMQP JMS)
• Kubernetes monitoring e.g. Prometheus/ Graphana
• GPU-based Kubernetes
• SALT for deployment automation
• Helm and Helmfile
• Nexus

About Xcelerate Solutions:
Founded in 2009 and headquartered in McLean VA Xcelerate Solutions () is one of Americas fastest-growing companies. Xcelerates cultureis definedby our diversified workforce of dynamic and versatile professionals supported with growth and development opportunities that contribute to individual and company growth. This strong commitment to our employees hasbeen recognizedby our inclusion on the Washington Business Journals 50 Best Places to Work list as well as being a Great Place to Work certified company with a 4.6 star and a 99% CEO approval Glassdoor rating. Come find out why Xcelerate Solutions is one of the DC Metro top employers!Xcelerate Solutions is an Equal Employment Opportunity/Affirmative Action evaluate qualified applicants without regard to race color national origin religion age equal pay disability veteran status sex sexual orientation gender identity genetic information or expression of another protected characteristic. As part of this commitment to the full inclusion of all qualified individuals Xcelerate provides reasonable accommodations if needed because of an applicants or an employees disability.

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