Join a leading Randstad client in Washington D.C. as a Senior Product Owner Platform & IT Operations driving the critical transformation from a project to a platform as a product model within the Enterprise Platforms & Enablement (EPE) portfolio. You will be the strategic leader and primary voice of the customer for the Smooth Operators Team focusing on essential capabilities like continuous IT operations CMDB / IT Asset Management network segmentation and PCI compliance. This role requires an experienced agile champion to define prioritize and drive the roadmap for a major digital product leveraging strong technical and business acumen to deliver reliability resilience and agility across the organization.
Key Responsibilities
- Product Strategy & Vision : Develop articulate and communicate a clear product vision strategy and roadmap that aligns with business goals and drives the adoption of the platform as a product model.
- Backlog Management : Act as the primary Product Owner for the cross-functional team owning grooming and managing a medium-complexity product backlog to ensure it reflects the highest business priorities and maximizes value delivery.
- Prioritization & Value Delivery : Ruthlessly prioritize features epics and user stories based on business value customer feedback technical feasibility and defined success metrics to guide the teams focus.
- Requirements Definition : Collaborate closely with Product Management and stakeholders to translate complex business needs into well-defined actionable user stories acceptance criteria and detailed functional requirements.
- Stakeholder Engagement : Facilitate effective communication and collaboration across a wide array of stakeholders including Engineering Architecture Product Management and business leaders ensuring alignment on the product direction.
- Agile & SAFe Champion : Implement and actively champion the principles and ceremonies of Agile and the Scaled Agile Framework (SAFe) methodologies within the team and across the value stream.
- Cross-Team Coordination : Partner with other Product Owners and Product Managers to ensure cohesive end-to-end feature delivery that enhances the capabilities of a successful passenger railroad.
- Performance Analysis : Define track and analyze key success metrics and operational data to measure product value identify areas for continuous improvement and inform data-driven pivoting decisions.
Required Qualifications
Experience : A minimum of 5 years of progressive experience as an Agile Product Owner in a large complex organization.Education : Bachelors degree in a relevant field or an equivalent combination of related work experience and schooling.Certification : Required : Active SAFe 6.0 Product Owner / Product Manager Certification or a minimum of 3 years of experience in Scaled Agile product ownership or product management.Technical Acumen : Demonstrated understanding of IT operations IT Asset Management (CMDB) networking and compliance frameworks (e.g. PCI) is highly preferred.Leadership Skills : Proven ability to exercise strong leadership communication and facilitation skills to effectively bridge business objectives and technical delivery teams.Tool Proficiency : Hands-on experience with agile management and collaboration tools such as Jira Software Confluence Jira Align FigJam and / or AgilityHealth.Skills : Strong analytical problem-solving and decision-making skills with a focus on delivering incremental value.Required Skills :
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Background Check : No
Drug Screen : No
Key Skills
Environment,Fund Management,Cabling,J2EE,Document Control Management
Employment Type : Full Time
Experience : years
Vacancy : 1