Product Owner Scrum

Kettering, OH/Remote

IPTA's Technology Solutions Team is passionate about providing our customers with technical solutions that satisfy their business needs. Through collaborative interactions with customers, team members, subject matter experts (SMEs), technical leaders, and partners we design practical solutions that solve real problems for major government and business organizations. As a member of our Technology Solutions group, you will work with a team of technologists focused on delivering innovative business solutions using emerging technologies through proven successful methods.

Our Team

We are looking for talented people who are enthusiastic about applying technology to deliver innovative outcomes with "fierce determination, fearless integrity, and passionate service." Our belief is that our people are the key to success. By encouraging and enabling continued learning, our team members grow to achieve their personal career goals. We are looking for:

• Smart people with a passion for technology
• Ability to solve challenging business problems
• Self-directed professionals
• Hunger to continually learn and grow
  
  

Responsibilities: 

• Plans and heads the development effort of a scrum project.
• Envisions the final product, communicates the vision to the scrum team, motivates the team to subscribe to the vision, and sees the vision through to completion.
• Describes features, collaborates, and communicates with the delivery team, and accepts or rejects work results, and steers the project by tracking and forecasting its progress.
• Creates, maintains, and outlines work in the product backlog; determines which activities will produce the most business value; and prioritizes it based on business value.
• Understands the market, the customer, the business domain, and the varying needs of different types of users, and works with the user group in order to make sound decisions and determine what features will be in the product release.
• Collaborates closely with the development team and customers to ensure there is a clear understanding of what features are needed in the product or application.
• Ensures management, stakeholders, and sponsors are informed and the vision is aligned with their wishes; communicates the business benefits of the entire product and each individual feature.
• Acknowledges and responds to questions from the team, supports and respects the team's creativity, and delivers direction, based on whether the team is developing commercial software, software for internal use, hardware, or some other type of product.
• Maintains availability to team, showing commitment by doing whatever is necessary to build the best product possible and being actively engaged with their teams.
  
  

Requirements:  

• Bachelor's degree in a related field 
• Eight (8) years of prior experience in a similar role 
• DoD 8570 Level II/II certification required
• Active Security Clearance Required
  
  

IPTA is an Equal Opportunity/Affirmative Action employer. We are committed to providing equal employment opportunity to all qualified employees and applicants for employment. The Company does not discriminate in employment opportunities or practices on the basis of race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, national origin, age, physical disability, mental disability, medical condition, status as a veteran or disabled veteran or any other characteristic protected by law. We base all employment decisions, including recruitment, selection, training, compensation, benefits, discipline, promotions, transfers, lay-offs, returns from lay-off, terminations, and social and recreational programs on the principles of equal employment opportunity. Our employees have diverse backgrounds, skills, and ideas that collectively contribute to a rich working environment and greater opportunity for innovation.