Product Owner
SPHERE Technology Solutions
Product
Newark, NJ, USA
Posted on Tuesday, September 26, 2023
Our company is growing rapidly and is hiring for a product owner. If you are looking for an exciting place to work, please take a look at the list of qualifications below.
Primary Responsibilities
- Translate high-level strategy & product direction into features, epics and user stories
- Understand the business value of requirements profoundly and convey it internally externally
- Consult and work with project stakeholders to understand business drivers and translate them into functional and non-functional requirements
- Elicit, capture, analyze, refine and document business requirements and user stories
- Communicate business and customer value to the team in a manner that sparks innovative thought
- Work closely with Agile team members
- Work to define the acceptance criteria for user stories
- Accept/reject the delivered code from within each Sprint
- Responsible for making ongoing decisions to continue development down the current path
- Create Capabilities and Features, collaborating with IT and business stakeholders to groom these components to a state of ready for the Agile teams
- Take responsibility for the development of ongoing enhancements, creating and prioritizing user stories within the Agile teams
- 8+ years of experience with Agile and Scrum practices
- Agile Certified Practitioner (ACP) preferred
- Experience managing software projects built in .NET, XML and SQL Server preferred (C#?)
- Experience working with Jira
- Experience with data governance products (e.g. Varonis, CyberArk), Security/Networking and knowledge of interfacing to storage platforms (Windows, NetApp, EMC, NAS, NFS) is desirable
- Proficient with project management techniques and tools
- You can identify, define, analyze, prioritize and refine requirements, communicating milestones and visions to the development team
- You can represent the customer with the ability to prioritize tradeoffs, clarify requirements, and work to drive user stories to acceptance throughout the Agile software development life cycle
- You have intermediate level of proficiency with Excel and other Microsoft Products
- You have experience writing and translating business requirements
- You are an analytical person who can control the details but still see the full picture
- Experience and comfort solving problems in an ambiguous environment where there is constant change
- You have the tenacity to thrive in a dynamic and fast-paced environment
- Experience in the following technologies is a plus: o Storage platforms (Windows, NetApp, EMC lsilon, NAS, NFS), o Device connectors (Unix, Windows, SSCM, ServiceNow, CMDB, Active Directory), o 3rd party interfaces (OneDrive, SharePoint, Microsoft System Center, Active Directory, PeopleSoft, Office 365), o Databases (SQL Server, Oracle or Sybase), o Map Reduce Frameworks (Hadoop)