PIR Enterprise Platform Product Owner

Apogee Engineering•Wright Patterson AFB, OH

1d•Onsite

About The Position

Apogee is seeking a senior-level PIR Enterprise Platform Product Owner to support the National Air and Space Intelligence Center (NASIC) mission at Wright Patterson AFB in Dayton, Ohio. The position provides product ownership for GSPO (O&M), with a focus on the PIR Enterprise Platform and associated applications. The Product Owner serves as the primary interface between government sponsors, users, functional leads, and technical development teams, managing product backlogs and ensuring delivery of mission-relevant capabilities that support intelligence operations. The role is contingent upon contract award. The Product Owner maintains and prioritizes backlogs, converts roadmap objectives and operational requirements into actionable user stories, and balances mission value, user needs, technical dependencies, and strategic objectives. They participate in Agile ceremonies, communicate user feedback, review completed work, and provide acceptance decisions. They also coordinate user demonstrations, gather and document feedback, and triage critical user-submitted issues in the government-designated JIRA within 24 hours. The role also translates operational, security, and cloud optimization needs into technical backlog items, identifies workflow improvements and cloud optimization opportunities, and works with development teams to track issues through resolution and verify user satisfaction.

Requirements

Must be a U.S. citizen.
Must be eligible for TS/SCI and able to obtain and maintain required clearances.
Master’s degree in Information Systems, Computer Science, Engineering, Business, or a related field; alternatively, 8 additional years of relevant experience may substitute for the Master’s degree, or 4 additional years plus a Bachelor’s degree.
At least 10 years of experience in product management, project management, or systems integration roles.
Understanding of cloud-native architectures, microservices, containerization, and DevSecOps pipelines.
Experience with Agile methodologies and tools such as JIRA and Confluence.
Strong backlog management, prioritization, and stakeholder engagement skills.
Ability to translate operational needs into well-formed user stories.

Nice To Haves

Agile certification, such as Scrum Master or Product Owner.

Responsibilities

Maintain, groom, and prioritize product backlogs for the PIR Enterprise Platform and associated applications.
Decompose roadmap objectives into refined user stories with clear acceptance criteria.
Keep at least two sprints' worth of actionable, prioritized work in the backlog and remove outdated or irrelevant items.
Continuously refine user stories based on evolving requirements and stakeholder feedback.
Prioritize backlog items according to mission value, user needs, technical dependencies, and strategic objectives.
Serve as the primary interface between government sponsors, operational users, functional leads, and technical development teams.
Reconcile competing user requests and propose a unified platform vision for Government approval.
Translate operational requirements into actionable technical requirements and build consensus among stakeholders.
Coordinate engagement with user communities to gather requirements and feedback.
Plan and facilitate user demonstrations within two weeks after key feature deployments when the development environment and releases are stable and available.
Prepare demonstration materials, gather user feedback, document enhancement requests, and help users understand new features.
Attend Agile ceremonies, including sprint planning, daily stand-ups, sprint reviews, and retrospectives.
Communicate user feedback, provide product direction, clarify requirements and acceptance criteria, review completed work, and provide acceptance decisions during Agile ceremonies.
Respond to and triage critical user-submitted bug and enhancement requests within 24 hours in the government-designated JIRA.
Evaluate issue urgency, mission impact, and severity; assign preliminary priority scores; coordinate resolution timelines; track issues through resolution; and verify user satisfaction.
Translate operational, security, and cloud optimization needs into technical backlogs.
Understand operational workflows, identify improvement opportunities, capture security requirements, and identify cloud optimization opportunities to improve performance and reduce costs.