Space Force - Enterprise Services Product Owner
About The Position
As the Enterprise Services Team Product Owner for the SDA GMI program, you will be responsible for managing one of the Enterprise Services teams that is responsible for developing and deploying state-of-the-art ground satellite operational systems. Multiple Enterprise Services teams are collectively responsible for developing a Platform as a Service (PaaS) solution, integrating Commercial Off-The-Shelf (COTS) and Free and Open Source Software (FOSS) components, developing common mission services and applications, supporting application development teams to onboard mission capabilities, and managing multiple deployments to support development, integration and testing, and operations environments. Your role is to work within the overall Enterprise Services organization, manage the team and coordinate and collaborate with others and multiple stakeholders. COTS and FOSS components to integrate include a variety of AWS services as well as Kubernetes, Confluent Platform (Kafka), Redis, Redhat IPA, Windows AD, Keycloak, cybersecurity tools (e.g., ACAS/Nessus, Anchore, Splunk), and developer support tools (e.g., GitLab, Atlassian suite, and Nexus artifact repository). The team is actively enhancing the architecture to fully support cloud native AWS services.
Requirements
- Bachelor's degree in Systems Engineering, or a related Science, Engineering or Mathematics field, plus a minimum of 5 years of relevant experience; or Master's degree, plus a minimum of 3 years of relevant experience.
- Department of Defense Secret security clearance is required at time of hire.
- Applicants selected will be subject to a U.S. Government security investigation and must meet eligibility requirements for access to classified information.
- Due to the nature of work performed within our facilities, U.S. citizenship is required.
- Strong written and oral communications skills (required)
- Jira task tracking (required)
- Confluence content creation (required)
- Knowledge of DevSecOps platforms, tools, and processes (e.g., GitLab) (required)
- Knowledge of AWS cloud technologies (required)
Nice To Haves
- Knowledge of Docker and Kubernetes (preferred)
- Knowledge of full-stack development technologies (e.g., Java, Python, Web, Databases, Kafka, React, etc.) (preferred)
- Knowledge of cybersecurity tools and processes (e.g., Nessus, Anchore, ClamAV, etc.) (preferred)
- Knowledge of DoD security compliance standards and processes (preferred)
- Familiarity with platform as a service implementations, such as Space Force Platform One (preferred)
- Collaborative team player with the ability to provide technical leadership and position others for success
- Strong presentation and communications skills with experience in the art of negotiation and the ability to meet challenging customer requirements with win-win solutions
- Commitment to ongoing professional development for yourself and others
Responsibilities
- Define and communicate the product vision and roadmap to SDA and internal team stakeholders
- Align product goals with business objectives and SDA customer needs
- Prioritize features and capabilities based on business value and satellite operations needs
- Create, maintain, and prioritize the product backlog, coordinating with the scrum master, Enterprise Services Development Lead, and other stakeholders
- Write clear and concise user stories and acceptance criteria
- Ensure the backlog is visible, transparent, and understood by all team members
- Refine backlog items regularly (grooming sessions)
- Act as the primary liaison between SDA and internal team stakeholders and the development team
- Gather and analyze stakeholder feedback and requirements
- Manage stakeholder expectations and communications
- Review and accept completed work from the development team
- Ensure delivered features meet definition of done and acceptance criteria
- Validate that solutions meet customer and business needs
- Make timely decisions on scope, priorities, and trade-offs
- Balance technical constraints with business needs
- Define release criteria and manage release planning
- Actively participate in Sprint Planning, Reviews, and Retrospectives
- Collaborate closely with the Scrum Master and development team
- Provide continuous feedback and clarification throughout sprints
Benefits
- highly competitive benefits
- flexible work environment where contributions are recognized and rewarded
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What This Job Offers
Job Type
Full-time
Career Level
Senior
