Sr. Product Owner

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Leidos has an exciting opening for you as our next TS/SCI cleared Sr. Product Ownerto play a critical role with design engineering development and deployment of software supporting DIAs National Digital Exploit and OSINT Center (NDOC) (formerly NMEC) under our 10-year DOMEX Technology Platform (DTP) contract. This position provides an opportunity to have impact as part of a mission-focused solutions-oriented and adaptive team that values innovation collaboration and professional development. The selected individual will work closely with the Lead Systems Engineer Release Train Engineer and government leads to decompose high priority requirements from the product roadmap into valuable delivered solutions executing on requirements analysis design system integration and system testing.

As a Sr. Product Owner you will lead an application team responsible for maintaining the continuous flow of new software enhancements and deployments while you manage risks escalate impediments and help to drive continuous process improvement. While most work is conducted on-site at our client location in Bethesda MD we offer a flexible schedule and occasionally some tasks may be performed remotely.

You will work closely with the team on the following key tasks:

• Manage direct coordinate and provide technical direction for all aspects of research development integration and sustainment for NDOCs mission applications.
• Provide technical support coordination and execution of systems engineering activities such as feature/requirements analysis design implementation planning integration and test sustainment documentation deployment and system assessment.
• Take ownership of your assigned portion of the task orders product portfolio and manage programmatic relationships across applications within the task and with other applications on other tasks
• Develop manage and continually improve the backlog of work items for an Agile scrum team. Ensure sound engineering practices are followed.
• Foster an environment of collaboration with the different team members with the goal of providing quality service and product to our customers
• Act as a mentor to mid-level and junior engineers offering guidance on best practices and career growth

To be successful in this role you need the following (required qualifications):

• BS in Engineering Computer Science Systems Engineering or related field and 12 or more years of prior relevant experience or Masters with 10 or more years of prior relevant experience.
• To be considered must have an active Top Secret with SCI eligibility and ability to obtain and maintain a TS/SCI with Polygraph.

• Experience as a Technical Product Owner Development Team Lead Systems Engineer 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 like Gitlab Jira and Confluence.
• Experience with facilitating scrum for the team (Planning Retrospective Backlog Refinement
• 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 government and contractor stakeholders.

You will wow us even more if you have some of these skills:

• Hands-on development and/or scripting experience especially Java
• Experience developing microservices and deploying them in containerized environments using Docker and Kubernetes.
• DevOps practices and tools including Continuous Integration/Continuous Delivery (CI/CD) tools and practices especially Gitlab or Jenkins
• Strong testing discipline with a focus on automation coverage and CI/CD pipelines
• Experience with or knowledge of NMEC applications (e.g. Storefront Harmony)
• Experience with Digital Forensics or multimedia content enrichment/image processing
• Experience with AI algorithmically driven processing systems
• Identifying tech debt systemic issues and areas for team/process improvement
• Experience with security best practices for services: authN/Z secrets management data protection
• Experience with any of the following technologies:
  • PostgreSQL
  • GraphQL
  • Kafka RabbitMQ or other message passing systems
  • Keycloak
• Cloud infrastructure experience

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