Cloud Product Owner (Azure)
About The Position
Improvix Technologies is hiring a Cloud Product Owner to guide the direction and delivery of Azure initiatives supporting our federal client's mission systems. You'll sit between engineering, government stakeholders, and program leadership — turning mission needs into a clear roadmap and making sure the cloud team builds the right things in the right order. This is a technical product role. You'll be writing acceptance criteria for infrastructure and migration work, arguing about technical debt with architects who know more than you do about some of it, and explaining to a government program lead why the unglamorous ATO work has to come before the feature they asked for. If that sounds like the good part of the job rather than the tax on it, keep reading.
Requirements
- 5+ years of product owner or product management experience, including 2+ years focused on cloud platforms.
- Hands-on familiarity with Microsoft Azure services — compute, storage, networking, identity/IAM, and Azure DevOps or similar tooling.
- Demonstrated experience delivering in Agile/Scrum environments.
- Strong understanding of federal IT delivery, including ATO processes and cloud security requirements.
- Excellent stakeholder management skills — equally comfortable briefing an engineering team and a government program lead.
- Active Top Secret clearance, or an active Secret clearance with willingness to be sponsored for TS.
- Ability to work onsite in Washington, DC four days per week.
Nice To Haves
- CSPO, SAFe POPM, or comparable product owner certification.
- Azure certifications — AZ-900, AZ-104, or higher.
- Experience supporting DoD or Intelligence Community customers.
- Background in cloud migration or hybrid cloud environments.
- Experience writing or reviewing acceptance criteria for infrastructure work specifically, as opposed to application features.
Responsibilities
- Own and prioritize the product backlog for Azure cloud initiatives, balancing stakeholder priorities, technical debt, and delivery timelines.
- Translate mission requirements into actionable user stories with acceptance criteria that engineers can build against.
- Partner with engineers, architects, and DevOps staff to define requirements for cloud infrastructure, migration, and modernization work.
- Drive sprint planning, backlog grooming, and release planning from the product side in an Agile/Scrum environment.
- Keep the team's work sequenced so dependencies land in the right order and nothing stalls waiting on a decision.
- Act as the primary liaison between the cloud team and government stakeholders.
- Track progress against program milestones and communicate status, risks, and trade-offs to leadership — clearly, and early.
- Build the working relationships that let hard conversations happen before they become escalations.
- Support governance around Azure environment configuration, cost management, and compliance with federal security frameworks including FedRAMP and the DoD Cloud Computing SRG.
- Collaborate with security teams so ATO requirements and continuous monitoring needs are reflected in the roadmap rather than discovered late.
Benefits
- Competitive compensation and performance-based incentives
- 401(k) with company match
- Three weeks of paid annual leave that increases with tenure
- Comprehensive medical, dental, and vision insurance
- Life insurance and disability coverage
- Transit and commuting benefits
- Professional development and paid training opportunities
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What This Job Offers
Job Type
Full-time
Career Level
Mid Level
Education Level
No Education Listed
