Product Owner - System and Platform Teams

Logistics Management Institute

23h

About The Position

LMI is seeking a highly skilled Technical Product Owner to support both the System Team and Platform Team within the Army Training Information System (ATIS) Agile Release Train (ART). This role is critical for driving technical excellence, ensuring infrastructure readiness, and supporting continuous integration, delivery, and security across the ATIS ecosystem. The Technical Product Owner will manage backlogs that balance architectural runway, platform stability, and technical enablers to meet mission needs. LMI is a new breed of digital solutions provider dedicated to accelerating government impact with innovation and speed. Investing in technology and prototypes ahead of need, LMI brings commercial-grade platforms and mission-ready AI to federal agencies at commercial speed. Leveraging our mission-ready technology and solutions, proven expertise in federal deployment, and strategic relationships, we enhance outcomes for the government, efficiently and effectively. With a focus on agility and collaboration, LMI serves the defense, space, healthcare, and energy sectors—helping agencies navigate complexity and outpace change. Headquartered in Tysons, Virginia, LMI is committed to delivering impactful results that strengthen missions and drive lasting value.

Requirements

Active Secret security clearance.
Bachelor’s Degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or a related technical field.
5+ years of experience providing direct support to the Department of Defense (DoD).
2+ years of experience directly supporting ATIS Architecture
Certified SAFe Product Owner/Product Manager (POPM) and SAFe DevOps Practitioner (both required).
Deep technical knowledge of infrastructure, cloud platforms (AWS preferred), CI/CD pipelines, and security requirements.
Proven ability to translate complex requirements into actionable backlog items and narratives that resonate with both technical teams and program stakeholders.
Strong collaboration, communication, and problem-solving skills, with experience working across highly technical teams.

Nice To Haves

Master’s Degree in a related technical field.
Advanced SAFe certifications (e.g., SAFe Architect).
Experience with Army enterprise platforms, cybersecurity compliance (RMF, STIGs), and infrastructure modernization.
Familiarity with tools such as Jira, Azure DevOps, GitLab, and infrastructure-as-code technologies.
Background in platform engineering, system integration, and cross-domain solution design.

Responsibilities

Serve as the Technical Product Owner for the System Team and Platform Team, managing team backlogs with a focus on infrastructure, platform engineering, DevSecOps, and system-level enablers.
Work closely with System Architects, Release Train Engineers (RTEs), and other Product Owners to align backlog priorities with the ATIS Architectural Runway and technical roadmap.
Collaborate with cybersecurity, DevSecOps, and development teams to ensure platform stability, security compliance, and scalability.
Facilitate backlog refinement sessions, ensuring stories and features are well-defined, technically sound, and aligned with program objectives.
Lead technical planning and prioritization for key initiatives including environment setup, automation, integration pipelines, infrastructure as code, and security hardening.
Ensure smooth coordination between the System Team, Platform Team, and feature development teams, removing blockers and managing cross-team dependencies.
Support SAFe Program Increment (PI) Planning, System Demos, and Inspect & Adapt events.
Track key metrics related to system performance, technical debt, and infrastructure readiness, reporting progress to leadership and stakeholders.
Promote a culture of technical excellence, continuous improvement, and proactive risk management across the teams.
Provide technical leadership for functional SMEs and engineers including cyber, data, test automation, DevSecOps, system administration, and cloud architecture and engineering.
Align test strategy, in coordination with the test lead, across applications and environments by coordinating with test engineers and developers to ensure comprehensive, automated test coverage is integrated into the CI/CD pipeline.