Software Agile Product Owner Level 3 or 4 (AHT)

Northrop Grumman•Aurora, CO

3d•$114,000 - $213,400•Hybrid

About The Position

This requisition is sourcing a Product Owner that has a prior technical background in Java software development yet is now interested in a path via the Product Owner role to further senior technical leadership roles and potentially to project or program management. After starting with at least a Top Secret Clearance, the program will request the SCI then a program Special Access (SAP) for you which will then enable a full program briefing and full access to the mission and customers ideally within about 6 months of starting. You'll be joining an on-contract program that is supporting a critical national security mission that is both in development and operations. The program team is headquartered in Aurora, CO yet has some distributed team members located at several other NG sites across the US as well as at collaborating partner companies with an overall team size totaling roughly 35 people. Some of the program’s baseline and environments are unclassified allowing some work outside of our secure facilities yet still on-site and in-person. The overall team is composed of software developers organized into agile scrum teams with Product Owners and Scrum Masters. Staff in Aurora primarily work in two large rooms with cubicle-like individual spaces (rather than in dedicated offices). The program’s culture is agile, fast-paced, high performing, proactive, collaborative, and welcoming of new ideas, technologies, and tools that could benefit the mission or help the team be more productive or produce a higher quality product for the mission. The program is currently experimenting with every-other Friday being a work-from-home day if one’s work doesn’t require classified systems access at that moment.

Requirements

Bachelor’s degree in Science with 5+ years of software development experience; 3+ years with a Master's; or 9+ years of experience in lieu of a degree (for Principal/Level 3).
Bachelor’s degree in Science with 8+ years of software development experience; 5+ years with a Master's; or 12+ years of experience in lieu of a degree (for Sr. Principal/Level 4).
Active Top Secret clearance with SCI eligibility at time of application.
Ability to pass a Counterintelligence Polygraph (CI-Poly).
At least 3 years of Java Software Development experience.
At least 1 year of Agile Software Team leadership experience.
Experienced using Jira (as a developer, and in a team leadership capacity).
Experience working proposals.

Nice To Haves

Degree in Computer Science, Software Engineering, or similar.
Prior experience as a Product Owner.
Prior experience working within an Agile Release Train.
Skill making Data-Driven decisions.
Ability to motivate, lead, and drive work to successful completion on time.
Desire to work as a technical leader on a fast-paced team.
Ability to travel (very limited, 1 to 4 short trips per year, less than 10%).

Responsibilities

Act as a Product Owner for an agile scrum team.
Support a critical national security mission.
Collaborate with distributed team members across multiple sites and partner companies.
Work within a fast-paced, high-performing, proactive, and collaborative agile environment.
Welcome new ideas, technologies, and tools to benefit the mission or team productivity.
Potentially work from home every-other Friday if classified systems access is not required.
Develop and write basis-of-estimates (BOEs) for software efforts.
Communicate and present effectively to program management and customers.
Write technical documentation.