Technical Product Owner

Overview:

LMI has an immediate need for a Technical Product Owner in a fast-paced agile team environment. The person in this role is expected to be flexible and with a range of technical skills and strong understanding of product development and the lifecycle of a product. The person in this role will excel in ambiguous and critical situations while delivering valuable product at-pace. 

At LMI, we’re reimagining the path from insight to outcome at The New Speed of Possible™. Combining a legacy of over 60 years of federal expertise with our innovation ecosystem, we minimize time to value and accelerate mission success. We energize the brightest minds with emerging technologies to inspire creative solutioning and push the boundaries of capability. LMI advances the pace of progress, enabling our customers to thrive while adapting to evolving mission needs.  

Responsibilities 

• Member of the Agile team responsible for defining Stories and prioritizing the Team Backlog to streamline the execution of program priorities while maintaining the conceptual and technical integrity of the Features or components for the team. 

• Ensures Stories meet the users’ needs and comply with the Definition of Done. 

• Collaborates with Product Manager to ensure that development team priorities align with strategic priorities of the integrated product roadmap. I.e., translate PdM strategies into epics, user stories, and tasks for development.  

• Coordinates with key stakeholders, internal and external to LMI. 

• Identifies and coordinates with key end users or end user representatives. 

• Prepares for and participates in Quarterly product development planning. 

• Builds, edits, and maintains the team backlog during iteration execution. 

• Engage in cross-functional collaboration with engineers to reduce technical debt. 

• Proactively collaborate and plan with development team to avoid development delays. 

• Maintains proper flow of backlog items to user stories, collaborates with the team to detail stories with acceptance criteria and examples in the form of acceptance tests, 

• Works with the team to agree on accepted story completion, establishes capacity allocation to assist technical teams with decision making and sequencing of critical technological infrastructures to host new functionality, and participates in team demos. 

Qualifications 

• Ability to obtain and maintain a US government Secret clearance required; active Secret clearance desired. 

• Bachelor's Degree. Computer Science, or other engineering degree, highly preferred. 

• 3+ years’ experience as a Product Owner or Product Manager. 

• 5 years’ experience in large IT programs. 

• Previous experience as software or systems engineer, highly preferred.