Product Owner

General Dynamics Information Technology • Gaithersburg, MD

27d • $142,792 - $189,750 • 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). The 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 will serve in a hybrid techno-functional capacity, bridging business and technical teams, collaborating with stakeholders to define requirements, overseeing product development, and ensuring solutions align with business goals and are informed by data. Recent FDA-related experience is required.

This is a hybrid position with a three-day-per-week onsite requirement at either the GDIT office in Gaithersburg, Maryland, or the FDA office in Silver Spring, Maryland. The schedule is 40 hours per week, and travel of 50–75% is required.

Requirements

• Bachelor’s degree.
• 10 or more years of business analysis experience within the IT industry.
• CDER-Panorama working knowledge.
• 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 JIRA and Confluence, and familiarity with data tools such as Tableau, Power BI, or SQL.
• Recent FDA-related experience in a similar or related capacity.
• Ability to obtain and maintain a Public Trust; must have resided in the United States for 3 of the last 5 years.
• Strong leadership, communication, analytical, organizational, and self-management skills, including the ability to explain complex technical requirements to business and technical teams and manage competing demands in a fast-paced environment.

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.

Responsibilities

• Serve as a CDER-Panorama subject matter expert, providing guidance on the platform and its 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 personnel at all levels.
• Manage the product backlog and prioritize work to align with stakeholder needs and business goals.
• Act as a liaison among 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 execution, translating requirements into actionable technical deliverables.
• 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.
• Use JIRA, Confluence, and other project management or data analytics tools to manage requirements, document progress, and facilitate collaboration.
• Recommend process improvements to enhance product delivery, efficiency, and scalability.
• Support requirements delivery and cross-functional teams effectively.

Benefits

• Medical plan options, including options with Health Savings Accounts.
• Dental plan options.
• Vision plan.
• 401(k) plan with pre-tax and post-tax contribution options and a company match.
• Full flex work weeks where possible.
• Paid time off, including vacation, sick and personal time, holidays, paid parental, military, bereavement, and jury duty leave.
• Short- and long-term disability benefits.
• Life, accidental death and dismemberment, personal accident, critical illness, and business travel and accident insurance are provided or available.

What This Job Offers

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