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Technical Product & Delivery Lead 3 (Cloud)

At ULA, the Technical Product & Delivery Lead 3 (Cloud) is responsible for translating program-level features and priorities into actionable, well-defined stories for an engineering team within the Software Engineering organization at ULA. This role is pivotal in ensuring delivery excellence, technical alignment, and stakeholder satisfaction. The TPD operates at the intersection of business needs and technical execution, collaborating closely with Tech Leads, Solution Architects, Product Managers, and end users.

Key Responsibilities:

• Own and maintain the team-level backlog, ensuring alignment with Program Backlog priorities and strategic objectives.
• Write and refine epics and user stories with clear acceptance criteria and definition of done, collaborating with Tech Leads for technical feasibility and sequencing.
• Represent the voice of the customer and business needs in day-to-day team decisions and Agile ceremonies.
• Lead sprint planning, delivery, and roadmap execution, coordinating dependencies and managing stakeholder priorities.
• Accept completed work against acceptance criteria, escalate scope or priority conflicts as needed, and produce reporting for assigned areas.
• Develop and maintain RAID logs, support continuous improvement, and drive measurable outcomes across delivery scope.
• Facilitate onboarding, enablement, and upskilling for new team members and roles.

Required Education: Bachelor

Required Years of Experience: Minimum of 4 years of related work experience

Basic Qualifications:

• Bachelor's degree in a STEM (Science, Technology, Engineering, Mathematics) field from an accredited college or university
• Strong backlog management and story-writing discipline; comfortable operating at execution-level detail.
• Technical fluency to engage substantively with Tech Leads and Solution Architects about feasibility and tradeoffs.
• Clear communicator, able to translate between business stakeholders and delivery teams.
• Experience in a Scrum/SAFe team-level Product Owner capacity.
• Demonstrated ability to lead team delivery, coordinate dependencies, and manage stakeholder priorities.
• Consistent, high-quality work; dependable and proactive.
• Strong ability to leverage metrics (burn-up/down, unplanned vs planned work) to improve predictability and delivery quality.

Preferred Qualifications:

• Proven capability to work with architects to define medium- and long-term technical roadmaps and convert them into actionable backlog updates.
• Experience with cloud infrastructure (AWS/EKS), CI/CD pipelines, Software Configuration Management (SCM), and DevSecOps practices.
• Familiarity with migration leadership, build discipline, and operational support excellence.
• Exposure to configuration management, version control, and automation tools (e.g., GitLab, Bamboo, SonarQube, JFrog).
• Ability to drive continuous improvement, mentor peers, and propose scalable solutions.
• Deep, hands-on experience leading vision across stakeholders and workflows.
• Trusted to own and evolve complex business logic and domain features; recognized for system-level thinking and proactive risk identification.
• Proven skill in leading cloud migration or transition activities, Cloud Operations, and support of Cloud-based systems in a mission critical environment.
• Experience driving LLM Ops / AI adoption, governance, cost control, and feature intake processes involving Solution Architecture integration.
• Demonstrated experience supporting AWS/EKS modernization, including optimization, observability, and team enablement for cloud-native workloads.
• Ability to define and operationalize cloud on-call readiness, runbooks, process definitions, and shared responsibility models with IT Cloud Ops.

Salary Range (for ULA - Denver only): $107,865.00 - $179,775.00

What makes ULA different? Because we understand launch success comes through the collective efforts of a team, we seek the best to join us. We value ethics, ingenuity, engagement and professional development for employees at all levels. We offer our employees competitive pay and benefits including: 401(k) match plus an additional employer contribution Discretionary annual incentive bonus for eligible employees Generous paid time off Flexible work environments Additionally, most salaried ULA team members work a "9/80 schedule," meaning they enjoy every other Friday off. Benefits and work schedules may vary for union-represented hourly positions and are described in the applicable collective bargaining agreement.