Sr. Product Owner
About The Position
Leidos is hiring a TS/SCI-cleared Sr. Product Owner to support the design, engineering, development, and deployment of software for DIA’s National Digital Exploit and OSINT Center (NDOC), formerly NMEC, under the 10-year DOMEX Technology Platform (DTP) contract. The role works with the Lead Systems Engineer, Release Train Engineer, and government leads to decompose high-priority roadmap requirements into delivered solutions, including requirements analysis, design, system integration, and testing. The Sr. Product Owner leads an application team responsible for continuous software enhancements and deployments, manages risks, escalates impediments, and supports continuous process improvement. The position is primarily on-site at the client location in Bethesda, Maryland, with a flexible schedule and occasional remote work.
Requirements
- Bachelor’s degree in Engineering, Computer Science, Systems Engineering, or a related field and 12 or more years of relevant experience, or a master’s degree and 10 or more years of relevant experience.
- Active Top Secret clearance with SCI eligibility and the ability to obtain and maintain a TS/SCI with Polygraph.
- Experience as a Technical Product Owner, Development Team Lead, Systems Engineer, or in a similar role on an Agile 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, and backlog refinement.
- Strong 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.
- Experience identifying 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, GraphQL, Kafka, RabbitMQ or other message-passing systems, Keycloak, or cloud infrastructure.
Responsibilities
- Manage, direct, coordinate, and provide technical direction for research, development, integration, and sustainment for NDOC mission applications.
- Provide technical support, coordination, and execution of systems engineering activities, including requirements analysis, design, implementation planning, integration and test, sustainment, documentation, deployment, and system assessment.
- Own an assigned portion of the task order’s product portfolio 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, ensuring sound engineering practices are followed.
- Foster collaboration among team members to provide quality service and products to customers.
- Mentor mid-level and junior engineers on best practices and career growth.
- Manage risks, escalate impediments, and help drive continuous process improvement.
- Facilitate scrum activities, including planning, retrospectives, and backlog refinement.
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What This Job Offers
Job Type
Full-time
Career Level
Senior
