Product Owner
About The Position
Leidos is hiring a TS/SCI-cleared Product Owner to support design, engineering, development, and deployment of software for DIA’s National Digital Exploit and OSINT Center (NDOC) under the 10-year DOMEX Technology Platform contract. The role works with the Lead Systems Engineer, Release Train Engineer, and government leads to turn high-priority product-roadmap requirements into delivered solutions, including requirements analysis, design, system integration, and testing. The Product Owner leads an application team that maintains a continuous flow of software enhancements and deployments. The position manages risks, escalates impediments, and supports continuous process improvement. Most work is conducted onsite at the client location in Bethesda, Maryland, with a flexible schedule and occasional remote work possible. The role manages and provides technical direction for research, development, integration, and sustainment of NDOC mission applications. It oversees tools for a high-throughput data pipeline focused on enhancement and discoverability, supports systems-engineering activities across the software lifecycle, and owns the team’s product backlog and programmatic relationships across applications. The Product Owner develops and improves Agile scrum work items, ensures sound engineering practices, and fosters collaboration to deliver quality and value to customers.
Requirements
- Bachelor’s degree in Engineering, Computer Science, Systems Engineering, or a related field and at least 8 years of relevant experience, or a master’s degree and at least 6 years of relevant experience.
- Active Top Secret clearance with SCI eligibility, and ability to obtain and maintain TS/SCI with Polygraph.
- Experience as a Product Owner, Team Lead, Scrum Master, or in a similar role on a software development team.
- Ability to break down complex problems into actionable steps.
- Experience managing and prioritizing product backlogs.
- Strong understanding of Agile methodologies and experience with tools such as GitLab, Jira, and Confluence.
- Experience facilitating scrum activities for a team, including planning, retrospectives, backlog refinement, and sprint reviews or demos.
- Excellent verbal and written communication skills, including the ability to explain technical and non-technical concepts to diverse audiences.
- Ability to work cross-functionally with engineering, design, and project management teams.
- Ability to manage expectations and maintain strong relationships with government and contractor stakeholders.
Nice To Haves
- Hands-on development or scripting experience, especially with Java, Python, or .NET.
- Experience developing microservices and deploying them in containerized environments using Docker and Kubernetes.
- Experience with DevOps practices and tools, including CI/CD, especially GitLab or Jenkins.
- Strong testing discipline focused on automation, coverage, and CI/CD pipelines.
- Experience with or knowledge of NMEC applications such as Storefront and Harmony.
- Experience with digital forensics or multimedia content enrichment and image processing.
- Experience with AI algorithmically driven processing systems.
- Ability to identify technical debt, systemic issues, and areas for team or process improvement.
- Experience with security best practices for services, including authentication and authorization, secrets management, and data protection.
- Experience with PostgreSQL.
- Experience with GraphQL.
- Experience with Kafka, RabbitMQ, or other message-passing systems.
- Experience with Keycloak.
- Cloud infrastructure experience.
Responsibilities
- Manage, direct, coordinate, and provide technical direction for research, development, integration, and sustainment of NDOC mission applications.
- Plan, design, and oversee implementation of tools that meet mission needs in a high-throughput data pipeline focused on enhancement and discoverability.
- Provide technical support, coordination, and execution of systems-engineering activities, including feature and requirements analysis, design, implementation planning, integration and test, sustainment, documentation, deployment, and system assessment.
- Take ownership of the team’s product backlog and manage programmatic relationships across applications within the task and with applications on other tasks.
- Develop, manage, and continually improve an Agile scrum team’s backlog of work items.
- Ensure sound engineering practices are followed.
- Foster collaboration among team members to provide quality and value to customers.
- Manage risks, escalate impediments, and help drive continuous process improvement.
- Facilitate scrum activities, including planning, retrospectives, backlog refinement, and sprint reviews or demos.
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What This Job Offers
Job Type
Full-time
Career Level
Senior
