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Technical Product Owner

TEKsystems
$55.00 - $70.00 / hr
life insurance, sick time, 401(k), retirement plan
United States, Massachusetts, Wellesley
Mar 08, 2025
The Sr Technical Product Owner identifies defines analyzes prioritizes and refines business requirements and communicates those requirements to the Scrum development teams. They are the voice of the customer stakeholder and end user in product development decisions aligning feature and product requests with business value. The Sr Technical Product Owner works directly with various internal and external stakeholders as well as with the Scrum teams to ensure successful translation of requirements into high-quality software. ESSENTIAL DUTIES and RESPONSIBILITIES - Collaborate with key stakeholders across the organization to define develop shape and refine requirements of complex software products at the heart of the company's business. - Author requirements and user stories for product features ensuring that stakeholder and market needs are met. - Be a champion of user experience and define and execute user stories that ensure superior customer experience both internal and external when using feature/product. - Define prioritize and clarify user stories working with peer group and business SMEs to understand use cases features business technical domain rules and overall product goals. - Drive and own backlog management groom backlog of competing requests by evaluating the business value and/or ROI of each and prioritizing the scrum team's work. - Accountable for managing scrum team's product backlog sequencing into sprints and ensuring that the development team is working on requests in the right order. - Maintain the functional quality of the work being delivered by setting and evaluating expectations and acceptance criteria. - Use agile/scrum methodologies to drive and deliver product releases. - Understand the end user and ensure customer needs are captured in the user stories and use cases that drive the work of scrum teams. - Interact side by side with customers and stakeholders finding what problems and pain points they deal with on a day-to-day basis. - Document customer needs in the form of user stories and work with development teams devising innovative solutions that solve the customer and stakeholder problems. - Provide sprint goal and tactical objectives to scrum team and provide quick JIT decisions to system level questions and defect triage. - Collaborate with and provide advice and guidance to the development and test representatives throughout the development life cycle by providing functional and domain level expertise as required to complete test plans test cases data gathering and other activities to complete testing. - Run successful Release Planning and Sprint Planning sessions as well as Sprint Reviews and Retrospectives. - Work collaboratively across all functional departments within IT and in the business and drive communications regarding sprint plan including new features and defects to internal and external stakeholders. - Ensure that prioritized solutions are delivered in a timely manner. - Ensure that proposed solution concepts are aligned with the existing enterprise framework solution business roadmap and objectives and the IT product management roadmap. - Strategize with product management and stakeholders on issues related to product requests vision and overall business. - Assist with design of future state business processes and act as a catalyst for change in adoption of the future state business processes. - Challenge assumptions and direction from business stakeholders when their needs are not technically achievable provide guidance. - Understand and advocate best practices in high-level system designs. - Research and understand market requirements and trends study competitive offerings in the market and anticipate customer needs. - Provide work direction and deliverable oversight to ensure tasks are completed with the required level of quality. - Manage all communication needs as primary point of contact for initiatives falling under assigned business areas. - Lead direct and motivate functional teams in delivering new features. - Assist other team members scrum development team and enterprise architecture in developing solution delivery best practices. - Work with teams to continuously improve product ownership and other agile processes. Requirements - Bachelor's degree in business management computer science information technology or equivalent education and work experience. - 5 years' experience as an Agile Scrum Product Owner or similar roles. - 4 years Scrum experience. - Strong knowledge/experience in agile development practices especially Scrum and/or Kanban methodologies and tools. - Certified Product Owner CPO or similar qualification in product ownership or analysis is desirable - Health Insurance industry experience is desirable - Experience with distributed off-site and/or off-shore product development teams - Strong experience in Microsoft Office Suite Excel Powerpoint Word - Experience in accessing and analyzing data with tools such as SQL. - Expertise with collaboration tools such as Jira and Confluence - Ability to understand and abstract complex systems from technical descriptions - Ability to understand complex business and technical issues - Ability to manage multiple projects and priorities simultaneously - Excellent understanding of planning analysis and testing approaches required to support distributed application development - Energetic Mission-driven Results- and Detail-oriented - Self-disciplined and diligent worker - Mature interpersonal skills with proven ability to interact with diverse audiences internal external - Outstanding organizational skills especially the ability to manage multiple concurrent priorities being executed by multiple teams - Exceptional written and verbal communication skills as well as negotiation and planning skills - High level of business management and facilitation skills - Mastery of influence decision making without formal reporting structure authority - Outstanding technical and non-technical communication skills - Proven Problem Solving/Analytical skills capability to resolve complex problems with minimum confusion frustration and inconveniences for all parties concerned - Superb critical analytical/thinking skills - Proven Decision Making skills - Delivering results and meeting customer expectations - Applying expertise and technology Strong technical aptitude - Demonstrated ability to help the organization fundamentally rethink how it executes business with successful outcome - Required to attend additional training as requested/deemed necessary Skills SQL, Postman, scrum, agile, user stories, jira Pay and Benefits The pay range for this position is $55.00 - $70.00/hr. Eligibility requirements apply to some benefits and may depend on your job classification and length of employment. Benefits are subject to change and may be subject to specific elections, plan, or program terms. If eligible, the benefits available for this temporary role may include the following: * Medical, dental & vision * Critical Illness, Accident, and Hospital * 401(k) Retirement Plan - Pre-tax and Roth post-tax contributions available * Life Insurance (Voluntary Life & AD&D for the employee and dependents) * Short and long-term disability * Health Spending Account (HSA) * Transportation benefits * Employee Assistance Program * Time Off/Leave (PTO, Vacation or Sick Leave) Workplace Type This is a hybrid position in Wellesley,MA. Application Deadline This position is anticipated to close on Mar 11, 2025. About TEKsystems: We're partners in transformation. We help clients activate ideas and solutions to take advantage of a new world of opportunity. We are a team of 80,000 strong, working with over 6,000 clients, including 80% of the Fortune 500, across North America, Europe and Asia. As an industry leader in Full-Stack Technology Services, Talent Services, and real-world application, we work with progressive leaders to drive change. That's the power of true partnership. TEKsystems is an Allegis Group company. The company is an equal opportunity employer and will consider all applications without regards to race, sex, age, color, religion, national origin, veteran status, disability, sexual orientation, gender identity, genetic information or any characteristic protected by law.