What are the responsibilities and job description for the Product Owner II position at Dexian?
Job Title: Product Owner II
Duration: 12-months
Description:
Role Summary
- The Product Owner is responsible for maximizing the value delivered by the development team for a single product within the data delivery portfolio.
- This role focuses on enabling reliable, high-quality data delivery to support analytics and business needs across the company.
- Working closely with the Product Manager, the Product Owner translates strategic priorities into actionable backlog items, ensures alignment with architectural standards, and coordinates dependencies across teams to deliver value.
What You'll Do
Backlog & Delivery Management
- Own, refine, and prioritize the product backlog to ensure clarity and readiness for development.
- Work with the Product Manager to understand business priorities and position the team to support them.
- Leverage Epics to organize and outline requirements, ensuring proper specifications and stories are in place for development.
- Participate in agile ceremonies (sprint planning, reviews, retrospectives, daily stand-ups).
- Monitor progress and remove impediments to keep delivery on track.
Dependency & Coordination
- Identify and manage dependencies across teams and systems to ensure smooth delivery.
- Collaborate with architecture to ensure alignment with enterprise standards for data governance, security, and platform usage.
- Coordinate with other product teams and stakeholders to maintain integration.
Stakeholder Engagement
- Engage with stakeholders to clarify requirements, validate priorities, communicate delivery progress, and validate value.
- Maintain alignment with business objectives.
Documentation & Communication
- Ensure Epics and related stories are well-defined with clear definition of done.
- Maintain product documentation, communicate backlog priorities, and sprint goals to the team and stakeholders.
Required / Basic Qualifications
- Bachelor's degree
- 4 years related work experience (or HS/GED 8 years related experience)
Desired Qualifications
- Bachelor's degree in computer & information science or management information systems
- Certified Scrum Product Owner (CSPO)
- Familiarity with SAFe or scaled agile environments
- Experience with Jira and agile tooling
- Experience working with data engineers and data delivery platforms
- Knowledge of AWS or similar cloud environments
Preferred Experience
- Utility industry experience
- Prior role as Senior Product Analyst
- Agile Product Owner certification
- Six Sigma Black Belt
Dexian stands at the forefront of Talent Technology solutions with a presence spanning more than 70 locations worldwide and a team exceeding 10,000 professionals. As one of the largest technology and professional staffing companies and one of the largest minority-owned staffing companies in the United States, Dexian combines over 30 years of industry expertise with cutting-edge technologies to deliver comprehensive global services and support.
Dexian connects the right talent and the right technology with the right organizations to deliver trajectory-changing results that help everyone achieve their ambitions and goals. To learn more, please visit https://dexian.com/.
Dexian is an Equal Opportunity Employer that recruits and hires qualified candidates without regard to race, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, age, national origin, ancestry, citizenship, disability, or veteran status.