Product Owner/ Project Manager - Financial Modeling and Analytics Group

Product Owner/ Project Manager, Financial Modeling and Analytics Group

Location: Hybrid - Reston, VA (3 days per week onsite)

Key Responsibilities

1. Product Vision & Strategy Alignment

• Define and communicate a clear product vision and roadmap
• Ensure alignment with business priorities, customer needs, and strategic objectives

1. Backlog Ownership & Prioritization

• Own and manage the product backlog
• Prioritize features, enhancements, and defect fixes based on business value, risk, and ROI
• Continuously refining backlog items to reflect evolving priorities

1. Requirements Definition

• Translate business needs into user stories with clear acceptance criteria
• Provide ongoing clarification to development teams to ensure accurate implementation

1. Stakeholder Engagement

• Act as the single point of contact for business stakeholders
• Gather and incorporate feedback to maintain alignment and transparency
• Manage competing priorities across stakeholders effectively

1. Sprint Planning & Execution Support

• Participating in Sprint Planning, Reviews, and Demos
• Ensure the team is working on highest-value deliverables each sprint
• Validate deliverables against business expectations

1. Customer & Business Representation

• Serve as the voice of the customer and business
• Ensure delivered features meet user needs and expected outcomes

1. Decision-Making Authority

• Make timely decisions on scope, priorities, and trade-offs
• Balance business value, technical constraints, and timelines

1. Value Delivery & Continuous Improvement

• Focus on maximizing product value and ROI
• Incorporate feedback from stakeholders, users, and retrospectives to refine priorities

Expected Outcomes

• Clearly prioritized and well-maintained backlog
• Improved alignment between business, technology, and delivery teams
• Faster decision-making and reduced delivery ambiguity
• Consistent delivery of high-value product increments

Ideal Candidate Profile

• Strong understanding of Agile/Scrum methodologies
• Experience in stakeholder management and cross-functional coordination
• Ability to translate complex business requirements into actionable deliverables
• Strong analytical and decision-making skills
• Knowledge of FannieMae or Freddie Mac operations especially relates to MultiFamily and its data is key
• Ability to manage multiple scrum teams and set priorities

Responsible for the performance projects or a definable portion of a larger program in accordance with contract requirements and company policies, procedures and guidelines. Directs and supervises all support resources for the performance of project assignments and activities. Manages project through the design, implementation and testing phases in accordance with project objectives. The candidate is required to use client s program management tools to manage project work plans, issues, risks, and dependencies. The candidate produces status reports, conducts status meetings and facilitates issue resolution and risk management sessions.

Skills:

1) Excellent planning skills using industry planning applications (i.e. Microsoft Project)

2) Attention to detail

3) Proficiency with project lifecycle cost analysis

4) Strong communication, negotiation and relationship building skills

5) Ability to resolve technical issues

6) Ability to manage, coordinate and guide a project team

7) Strong issue resolution and risk management skills

8) Experience with project management methodologies

Education/Work Experience:

1) Bachelor degree in Computer Science, Information Systems, Business or Business-related field

2) PMI/Project Management Professional (PMP) certification desired

3) Considered to have strong skills and expertise in the project management field

4) 4-6 Years of progressive IT experience and 2-3 years of PM experience

5) Demonstrated ability in managing projects similar in scope and complexity to the project requirements; shows a track record of completing projects on time.

Benefits:

SES hires W2 benefitted and non-benefitted consultants. Our contract employee benefits include group medical dental vision life LT and ST disability insurance, 21 days of accrued paid time off, 401k, tuition reimbursement, performance bonuses, paid overtime, and more.

Please contact me to discuss the details of this position further.

*Please forward resume directly to for immediate consideration - rstarinieri at sesc .com

I look forward to speaking with you soon!

Robin Starinieri

Director of Recruiting

Systems Engineering Services