Technical Product Owner

REI Systems•Sterling, VA

2d•Hybrid

About The Position

REI Systems is seeking an experienced, technically proficient Technical Product Owner to support mission-critical IT modernization and application development initiatives for the FDA. The role bridges FDA business stakeholders, program leadership, solution architects, development teams, and quality assurance teams to translate complex business and technical requirements into scalable, secure, high-performing solutions. The Technical Product Owner ensures product capabilities align with FDA mission objectives, federal security requirements, technical architecture, and program priorities. The role involves owning and prioritizing the product backlog; shaping product vision, requirements, and delivery priorities; and coordinating Agile delivery. It also requires close collaboration with architects and engineering teams on enterprise applications, APIs, integrations, databases, cloud modernization, and DevOps dependencies. The Product Owner coordinates application onboarding and service adoption, manages integration impacts and lifecycle needs, and supports testing, security, compliance, documentation, and audit readiness. The position is hybrid at REI Systems’ Sterling, Virginia headquarters, with flexibility for remote work according to company policy. The candidate must be able to obtain and maintain a clearance.

Requirements

At least 7 years of experience in IT, software development, business systems analysis, technical product management, or related technical roles.
At least 4 years of experience as a Technical Product Owner, Product Owner, Technical Business Analyst, or in a similar role supporting enterprise application development.
Strong understanding of the Software Development Life Cycle (SDLC), Agile/Scrum methodologies, and iterative software delivery.
Demonstrated experience managing technical product backlogs, defining user stories, and developing detailed acceptance criteria.
Strong understanding of enterprise application architecture, web applications, APIs, microservices, and system integrations.
Working knowledge of Java, .NET, Angular, or comparable enterprise application technologies.
Experience with relational databases such as SQL Server, Oracle, or PostgreSQL, including familiarity with SQL queries and data structures.
Experience supporting cloud-based applications; AWS is preferred.
Familiarity with REST APIs, JSON, XML, and API integration concepts.
Experience with Agile and requirements management tools such as Jira, Azure DevOps, Confluence, or similar platforms.
Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Data Science, or a related field.
Ability to obtain and maintain a clearance.

Nice To Haves

Master’s degree preferred.
Experience supporting cloud-based applications, preferably AWS.

Responsibilities

Own, manage, and prioritize the product backlog in alignment with FDA business objectives, technical requirements, and program deliverables.
Collaborate with stakeholders, business analysts, architects, developers, and QA teams to define product vision, requirements, and priorities.
Translate business and technical requirements into epics, features, user stories, development tasks, and acceptance criteria.
Lead backlog refinement, sprint planning, sprint reviews, and product demonstrations with Scrum Masters and Agile teams.
Make decisions about feature prioritization, technical dependencies, and product enhancements; validate completed deliverables against acceptance criteria.
Support release planning, roadmap development, and incremental delivery of product capabilities.
Identify and manage delivery risks, dependencies, blockers, and technical constraints.
Work with architects and engineering teams on application architecture, integrations, technical dependencies, and implementation approaches.
Participate in technical design discussions, solution evaluations, and architecture reviews to ensure solutions meet business needs.
Support cloud-based application modernization, including AWS and other approved federal cloud environments.
Work with engineering teams to improve application performance, scalability, reliability, and maintainability, and understand legacy modernization, migration, integration, and data-transformation challenges.
Collaborate with DevOps teams on CI/CD pipelines, deployment dependencies, and release readiness.
Define and prioritize reusable APIs and common capabilities for multiple consuming applications and broader FDA adoption.
Manage requirements for service catalogs, application onboarding portals, and administrative workflows, including requests, approvals, status tracking, and auditability.
Support API lifecycle management, versioning, backward compatibility, and migration of consuming applications.
Coordinate service onboarding and adoption, clarifying integration requirements, documentation, access dependencies, and acceptance expectations.
Serve as the product-level liaison among business stakeholders, service owners, consuming application stakeholders, and delivery teams.
Facilitate integration discovery sessions to confirm use cases, interface requirements, data needs, dependencies, and implementation responsibilities.
Coordinate with application, middleware, infrastructure, security, and platform teams to resolve integration gaps and delivery blockers.
Assess and communicate the impact of service and interface changes on consuming applications, including needed updates and testing.
Align application teams on integration milestones, environment availability, onboarding prerequisites, and release readiness.
Communicate product decisions, scope, risks, dependencies, and delivery status to technical and nontechnical audiences.
Partner with QA and testing teams on test coverage and alignment with acceptance criteria; support functional, integration, regression, and user acceptance testing.
Review test scenarios, validate solutions against business and technical requirements, and participate in defect triage and prioritization.
Ensure consideration of federal security, accessibility, and compliance requirements, including FISMA, NIST, Section 508, and FDA-specific standards.
Work with security and technical teams to incorporate data protection, access controls, and security considerations into product requirements.
Support documentation, audit readiness, and requirements traceability throughout the software development lifecycle.