Technical Product Owner 3 (Cloud)

ULA • Denver, CO

22h

About The Position

The Technical Product Owner 3 (Cloud) translates program-level features and priorities into actionable, well-defined stories for an engineering team in ULA’s Software Engineering organization. The role supports delivery excellence, technical alignment, and stakeholder satisfaction by working at the intersection of business needs and technical execution, in close collaboration with Tech Leads, Solution Architects, Product Managers, and end users.

The position owns the team-level backlog and helps guide sprint planning, delivery, and roadmap execution. It represents customer and business needs in team decisions, coordinates dependencies and stakeholder priorities, accepts completed work against agreed criteria, and supports reporting, risk tracking, continuous improvement, and team enablement. It also leads cross-team coordination for cloud migration, modernization, and operational support efforts.

Requirements

• Bachelor’s degree in a STEM field from an accredited college or university.
• At least 4 years of related work experience.
• Strong backlog-management and user-story-writing skills, with comfort working at execution-level detail.
• Technical fluency to discuss feasibility and tradeoffs substantively with Tech Leads and Solution Architects.
• Clear communication skills and ability to translate between business stakeholders and delivery teams.
• Experience serving as a team-level Product Owner in a Scrum or SAFe team.
• Demonstrated ability to lead team delivery, coordinate dependencies, and manage stakeholder priorities.
• Dependable, proactive, and consistent in producing high-quality work.
• Ability to use metrics such as burn-up/burn-down and planned versus unplanned work to improve predictability and delivery quality.
• Applicants must be U.S. Persons as defined by ITAR because the position involves access to information subject to ITAR.

Nice To Haves

• Capability to work with architects on medium- and long-term technical roadmaps and translate them into actionable backlog updates.
• Experience with cloud infrastructure, including AWS/EKS, CI/CD pipelines, Software Configuration Management (SCM), and DevSecOps practices.
• Familiarity with migration leadership, build discipline, and operational support excellence.
• Exposure to configuration management, version control, and automation tools such as GitLab, Bamboo, SonarQube, and JFrog.
• Ability to drive continuous improvement, mentor peers, and propose scalable solutions.
• Hands-on experience leading vision across stakeholders and workflows.
• Experience owning and evolving complex business logic and domain features, with system-level thinking and proactive risk identification.
• Experience leading cloud migration or transition activities, Cloud Operations, and support of cloud-based systems in a mission-critical environment.
• Experience driving LLM Ops or AI adoption, governance, cost control, and feature-intake processes involving Solution Architecture integration.
• Experience supporting AWS/EKS modernization, including optimization, observability, and team enablement for cloud-native workloads.
• Ability to define and operationalize cloud on-call readiness, runbooks, process definitions, and shared responsibility models with IT Cloud Ops.

Responsibilities

• Own and maintain the team-level backlog, aligning it with Program Backlog priorities and strategic objectives.
• Write and refine epics and user stories with clear acceptance criteria and definitions of done, collaborating with Tech Leads on feasibility and sequencing.
• Represent customer and business needs in day-to-day team decisions and Agile ceremonies.
• Lead sprint planning, delivery, and roadmap execution; coordinate dependencies and manage stakeholder priorities.
• Accept completed work against acceptance criteria, escalate scope or priority conflicts, and produce reporting for assigned areas.
• Develop and maintain RAID logs, support continuous improvement, and drive measurable delivery outcomes.
• Facilitate onboarding, enablement, and upskilling for new team members and roles.
• Lead cross-team coordination for migration, modernization, and operational support initiatives, including GitLab migrations, cloud operations readiness, and build pipeline reliability.

Benefits

• 401(k) match plus an additional employer contribution.
• Discretionary annual incentive bonus for eligible employees.
• Generous paid time off.
• Flexible work environments.
• Most salaried ULA team members work a 9/80 schedule, with every other Friday off.

What This Job Offers

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