PRODUCT OWNER 4

Huntington Ingalls•Newport News, VA

3d•Hybrid

About The Position

Responsible for the success of the product by maximizing the output of the development team within a scrum framework. Responsible for ordering backlog, clearly expressing the product backlog items, ordering the items to best achieve goals and optimize the value of the work the team performs. Lead collaboration, facilitate sprint activities, and create and communicate requirements artifacts that translate business needs into executable requirements. Work closely with business stakeholders,product/project managers, and technical teams to understand, analyze, refine, prioritize, and communicate needs to ensure full understanding of project scope, objectives, and requirements. Develop and adapt the product vision, writing new user stories, and specify acceptance of each user story. Bring members of the User Community together to share knowledge, identify enhancements, manage toolset or training improvements, discuss issues, and drive toward process standardization.Ensure the health and quality of specific processes and resulting products across the value stream. This individual will focus on the data warehouse and Cognos reporting processes throughout NNS for all programs. He/she should possess a deep understanding of data warehouse and Cognos. He/she will support the on-going process evaluations, standardization efforts, and software integration / enhancements in support of both the Data Warehouse and Cognos reporting processes to ensure tools & processes are integrated vertically and horizontally across the organization. Performs functional analysis, requirements allocation and interface definition studies to translate customer requirements into hardware and software specifications. This person must possess the necessary verbal and written communication skills to successfully interface with various organizations throughout the company (and various job levels within those organizations), gain agreement on standard approaches / tool usage, and present information verbally and in written / slide form.Primary responsibility: Business Intelligence Sustaining Improvement Team (SIT) and facilitation of processes improvementsJob function includes:· Mentor other SIT leads, IT, Data Warehouse and Cognos business users.· Evaluates effects of needed solution on current/future processes and systems to ensure efficient integration with a focus toward improvements in Quality, Safety, Cost, and Schedule. · Drives collaboration and cooperation to improve processes; negotiates and / or brokers with groups to create solutions that support company initiatives. · Makes prudent decisions and takes effective action amid complex and rapidly changing conditions; helps in leading organizational change, improving team performance, and driving sustainable improvements.· Track code development and implementation items from internal and external development· Works to define, prioritize, and resolve system issues· Cross Collaborates with other SIT leads & SIT members to gain requirements for the BI SIT AOR.

Requirements

Bachelor's Degree and 9 years of relevant exempt experience
Master?s Degree and 7 years of relevant professional experience
Ph.D. and 4 years of experience
NNS Apprentice School graduate
Navy Nuclear Power School (NNPS) graduate
Associate's Degree or other formal 2 year program and 2 years of relevant exempt experience or 4 years of relevant non-exempt experience
Military Paygrade E-5 or above military experience
High School/GED and 4 years combined of Manufacturing, Shipbuilding, Trades, Military experience or other relevant exempt experience
High School/GED and 8 years combined of Manufacturing, Shipbuilding, Trades, Military experience or other relevant non-exempt experience

Nice To Haves

Strategic thinking
Analytical and problem solving skills
Overall understanding of the technologies used in reporting
Extensive knowledge of Sustaining Improvement Teams
Ability to work independently in dynamic environment
Ability to work with cross functional teams across the organization for a common goal
Strong communication skills, presentation and leadership skills (verbal and written)
Works effectively with people (all levels of employees including executives) with solid interpersonal skills
Ability / desire to standardize and improve processes and integrate with toolsets
Extensive knowledge of Data Warehouse
Extensive knowledge of Cognos
Working knowledge of SAP S4
General understanding of the multitude of tools that feed the data warehouse
Facilitates the implementation and acceptance of change, encourages others to seek opportunities for different and innovative approaches to addressing, risks, problems, and opportunities.
Acts as a change agent to help assure successful process integration
Acts swiftly and persistently to remove barriers and implement improvements
Works continually to improve detailed understanding of processes and system functionality within the data warehouse.
Leads regular meetings on processes; facilitates diverse department groups; and provides structured methodology and technical expertise to develop, collect, consolidate, document, and administer the integration of selected processes and tools.
Coordinates the development / changes for associated training courses.
Develops and manages documentation and appropriate procedures through the established QA procedure circuit as applicable.
Point of contact for user community questions and issues related to the data warehouse and Cognos.

Responsibilities

ordering backlog
expressing the product backlog items
ordering the items to best achieve goals
optimizing the value of the work the team performs
Lead collaboration
facilitate sprint activities
create and communicate requirements artifacts that translate business needs into executable requirements
Work closely with business stakeholders,product/project managers, and technical teams to understand, analyze, refine, prioritize, and communicate needs to ensure full understanding of project scope, objectives, and requirements
Develop and adapt the product vision, writing new user stories, and specify acceptance of each user story
Bring members of the User Community together to share knowledge, identify enhancements, manage toolset or training improvements, discuss issues, and drive toward process standardization
Ensure the health and quality of specific processes and resulting products across the value stream
Mentor other SIT leads, IT, Data Warehouse and Cognos business users
Evaluates effects of needed solution on current/future processes and systems to ensure efficient integration with a focus toward improvements in Quality, Safety, Cost, and Schedule
Drives collaboration and cooperation to improve processes; negotiates and / or brokers with groups to create solutions that support company initiatives
Makes prudent decisions and takes effective action amid complex and rapidly changing conditions; helps in leading organizational change, improving team performance, and driving sustainable improvements
Track code development and implementation items from internal and external development
Works to define, prioritize, and resolve system issues
Cross Collaborates with other SIT leads & SIT members to gain requirements for the BI SIT AOR