Product Owner

General Dynamics Information Technology•Gaithersburg, WA

12d•Hybrid

About The Position

General Dynamics Information Technology (GDIT) is seeking a Product Owner to support a new contract with the Food and Drug Administration (FDA). This hybrid techno-functional role requires significant functional experience with Panorama, CDER’s centralized work management platform, which integrates with business applications such as DARRTS and Microsoft Outlook. The Product Owner bridges business and technical teams, collaborates with stakeholders to define requirements, oversees product development, and ensures data-driven solutions align with business goals. Recent FDA-related experience is required. The position has a three-day on-site requirement at either GDIT’s Gaithersburg, Maryland office or the FDA office in Silver Spring, Maryland. The role is scheduled for 40 hours per week and requires 50–75% travel. The Product Owner serves as a CDER-Panorama subject matter expert, supports workflow integration and process optimization, develops and delivers training, manages product requirements and backlogs, and coordinates analysis, design, testing, and delivery across stakeholder, data, analytics, and technical teams.

Requirements

Bachelor’s degree.
10 or more years of business analysis experience within the IT industry.
Working knowledge of CDER-Panorama.
Six or more years of experience supporting Federal Government agencies or projects.
Hands-on experience with data requirements, including working with analytics teams to define data models, reporting structures, and dashboards.
Proficiency with UI/UX design tools for creating wireframes, mockups, and process flows.
Strong understanding of Agile development methodologies, including Scrum, backlog management, and sprint planning.
Experience managing collaboration tools such as the Atlassian suite (JIRA and Confluence).
Familiarity with data tools such as Tableau, Power BI, or SQL.
Recent FDA-related experience in a similar or related capacity.
Must be able to obtain and maintain a Public Trust and have resided in the United States for three of the last five years.
Must currently possess no clearance and be able to obtain no clearance; the posting separately lists MBI (T2) as a required public trust/other qualification.
Able to meet the three-day on-site requirement at the GDIT office in Gaithersburg, MD, or FDA office in Silver Spring, MD.
Available for 50–75% required travel.

Nice To Haves

Professional Agile certification, such as Certified ScrumMaster or PMI-ACP.
Experience with commercial off-the-shelf products such as Appian, Salesforce, or Pega.
Knowledge of integrating applications with enterprise data solutions or low-code platforms such as Appian.
Expertise with data governance, analytics, and visualization tools to enable and validate actionable insights.
Strong leadership skills to drive requirements delivery and support cross-functional teams.
Analytical approach to validating requirements and supporting business decisions with data.
Exceptional communication skills for explaining complex technical requirements to business and technical teams.
Self-motivated and organized, with the ability to manage competing demands in a fast-paced environment.

Responsibilities

Serve as a CDER-Panorama subject matter expert, providing guidance on use and integration across CDER.
Analyze and map Panorama work processes into the OneNexus application and other downstream systems to support workflow integration and process optimization.
Develop Panorama-specific training materials and deliver hands-on training to GDIT and FDA staff at all levels.
Manage and prioritize the product backlog to align work with stakeholder needs and business goals.
Act as a liaison between business, data, and technical teams throughout the project lifecycle.
Gather, document, and communicate detailed business and technical requirements to development teams.
Analyze and interpret data to validate requirements and support data-driven decisions; collaborate with analytics teams on data-rich solutions.
Develop user stories, process flows, and acceptance criteria for sprint planning and team execution.
Create wireframes, process flows, and design mockups, and collaborate with design teams to support user experience best practices.
Lead functional testing, user acceptance testing, and data validation to verify that requirements are implemented.
Use collaboration and project management tools to manage requirements, document progress, and facilitate collaboration.
Recommend process improvements to enhance delivery, efficiency, and scalability.
Manage collaboration tools such as JIRA and Confluence and work with data tools such as Tableau, Power BI, or SQL.