Product Owner

CACI International • Aurora, CO

17d • $108,400 - $227,500 • Onsite

About The Position

We are seeking a talented and motivated Product Owner to join our dynamic team. As a Product Owner, you will lead the strategic execution of your team. You will serve as the primary authority on scope and "Go/No-Go" decisions, collaborating with engineering leadership to manage the release.

Requirements

• Bachelor’s degree in computer science or related field
• 5+ years as a Technical Product Owner or Team Lead in an Agile environment.
• Must have a working knowledge of modern software stacks, including CI/CD pipelines, container orchestration (K8s/Docker), and microservice architectures.
• Ability to look at a complex orbital mechanics requirement and identify exactly which backend services and frontend components need to change to support it.

Nice To Haves

• Direct experience in defense, aerospace, or GovTech is preferred.
• Familiarity with satellite C2, ground station operations, or geospatial visualization (e.g., CesiumJS or STK).
• Expert-level proficiency in GitLab for issue tracking, milestone management, and boards (or equivalent experience in Jira/ADO).

Responsibilities

• Work directly with the Program Chief Engineer and Lead Architect to break down high-level mission capabilities into discrete technical features.
• Create Feature Decomp Blueprints—technical roadmaps that map mission logic to specific Java/Quarkus services, React components, and required data schema changes.
• Eliminate architectural ambiguity for the development teams by providing the "technical tissue" for every story, including defined API contracts, data flow diagrams, and specific Astro UXDS requirements.
• Own and groom the backlog for both Java/Quarkus and React workstreams, ensuring stories are granular, technically sound, and meet strict Definition of Ready (DoR) and Definition of Done (DoD) standards.
• Lead daily stand-ups, sprint planning, and retrospectives.
• Work closely with the Lead Engineer to aggressively clear technical blockers related to Docker, Kubernetes, or GitLab CI/CD pipeline failures.
• Act as the final check on implemented features, ensuring that the delivered code meets the mission intent and matches the original feature decomposition before closing out stories.

Benefits

• flexible time off benefit
• robust learning resources
• comprehensive benefits such as; healthcare, wellness, financial, retirement, family support, continuing education, and time off benefits.

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Career Level: Mid Level