Job Title: Technical Lead II / Product Owner Location: Tucson, AZ (Onsite position (5 days, M-F)) Duration: 12 months
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What You'll Do
- Guide Project Execution: Serve as the key liaison between stakeholders and the development team, coordinating technical solutions and ensuring the team s work aligns with strategic priorities.
- Define and Accept Deliverables: Own the team backlog, from creating design concepts and user stories to formally accepting the team s deliverables based on performance against design specifications and acceptance criteria.
- Champion Customer-Centricity: Leverage your deep knowledge of design principles and user needs to ensure the team is building the right solution to solve the right problems.
- Foster a Collaborative Culture: Provide servant leadership and guidance to a self-organizing technical team, participating in design reviews and fostering an environment of continuous improvement and innovation.
Who You Are
- You bring 5 10 years of experience in a software development environment, with a proven ability to guide technical teams and projects.
- You possess strong problem-solving skills and can navigate the complexities of large-scale system design and implementation.
- An excellent communicator, you excel at building alignment and translating needs between technical teams and business stakeholders.
- You have a working knowledge of Agile principles and industry best practices for software delivery.
Preferred Qualifications
- Software delivery experience - Experience and confidence to work with the team to make sure the customer gets what they want
- Strong communication and coaching skills - The ideal candidate is able to easily work cross-functionally; is able to tailor his/her approach based on the audience (e.g., business stakeholders vs technical stakeholders); can have the tough conversations needed to push the project forward and gain alignment; has a can do, proactive approach and can get things done
- Experience creating and successfully managing a backlog
- Direct experience working as a Product Owner in the Scaled Agile Framework (SAFe) is highly preferred.
- A background in software architecture or technical design would be a significant asset in this role.
-Project management experience, especially in a software delivery role, is a plus