Staff Agile Product Owner

Northrop Grumman•Morrisville, NC

3d•Onsite

About The Position

At Northrop Grumman, our employees have incredible opportunities to work on revolutionary systems that impact people's lives around the world today, and for generations to come. Our pioneering and inventive spirit has enabled us to be at the forefront of many technological advancements in our nation's history - from the first flight across the Atlantic Ocean, to stealth bombers, to landing on the moon. We look for people who have bold new ideas, courage and a pioneering spirit to join forces to invent the future, and have fun along the way. Our culture thrives on intellectual curiosity, cognitive diversity and bringing your whole self to work — and we have an insatiable drive to do what others think is impossible. Our employees are not only part of history, they're making history. Northrop Grumman Space Systems (NGSP) is seeking an Agile Product Owner to join our team in the Payload & Ground Software Engineering organization supporting the a Ground program. This position will serve as an in-ward facing technical planning/execution Lead who will be responsible for setting a strategic vision for the technical execution of the software team and serve as authority over the team’s technical roadmap and closure of epics. This Agile Product Owner will represent Product Management and the voice of customers on the Agile development team. They will collaborate with Product Managers to define the work so that the integrated team can review, commit, and execute within a defined period. They prioritize key areas of work during a program increment, ensure that the software development team understands the intent and requirements of feature and user story definitions, and that the team is aligned on all acceptance criteria. They will represent customer interests and will continuously dictate team backlog priorities. This Agile PO must have a strong understanding of Agile PO role and technical experience developing and fielding command and control systems (TT&C, Flight Dynamics, etc) for Space Systems. This position will be at our site either in Morrisville, North Carolina or Fairfax, Virginia. This position requires being on-site and does not support remote or hybrid work. This position is contingent upon the verification and transfer of current/active DoD security clearance and program access as required for business needs. This position is also for an anticipated award and is thus contingent on funding of that award.

Requirements

Active U.S. Government DoD Top Secret/Sensitive Compartmented Information (SCI) security clearance at the time of application
U.S. Citizenship required
12 Years of relevant experience with a completed Bachelor's
10 Years of relevant experience with a completed Masters's
8 Years of relevant experience with a completed PhD
14 Years of relevant software engineering experience with a completed associate’s degree
16 years of relevant work software engineering experience in lieu of a completed degree (High School diploma or equivalent is required)
3+ years’ experience working in a software Agile delivery framework
3+ years of experience with product lifecycles for new and existing products
2+ years of product roadmap development experience
Experience converting technical and business requirements into Epics, Features, and User Stories
Experience presenting and conducting demos of software product to users/leadership/stakeholders
Demonstrated communication skills and visionary on business, user experience, and technical sides of product development
Experience with Atlassian tool suite (Jira and Confluence)
Experience leading a product development team
Technical experience developing and fielding command and control systems (TT&C, Flight Dynamics, etc) for Space Systems

Nice To Haves

Product owner certification or any other major Agile certification
Experience with both COTS solution and custom application development
Experience as a Scrum Master
Experience leading or supporting distributed teams
Has experience as a software developer to better interact and direct the team
Knowledge of container security best practices
Hands-on experience with AWS services (EC2, S3, Lambda, RDS, CloudFormation, etc.)
Familiarity with CI/CD pipelines and tools such as GitLab CI, Jenkins, or similar
Solid understanding of Kubernetes (Helm charts, service discovery, autoscaling, etc.)
Knowledgeable with Python

Responsibilities

Serve as an in-ward facing technical planning/execution Lead responsible for setting a strategic vision for the technical execution of the software team.
Serve as authority over the team’s technical roadmap and closure of epics.
Represent Product Management and the voice of customers on the Agile development team.
Collaborate with Product Managers to define the work so that the integrated team can review, commit, and execute within a defined period.
Prioritize key areas of work during a program increment.
Ensure that the software development team understands the intent and requirements of feature and user story definitions.
Ensure that the team is aligned on all acceptance criteria.
Represent customer interests and continuously dictate team backlog priorities.