Technical Product Owner

Job Title: Technical Project Manager/Technical Product Owner
Location: Grand Rapids, MI (Hybrid)
Duration: Contract
Required Skills:
Must feel comfortable with defining and planning work for development teams
Previous experience as an Azure/.NET developer/ C# development background.
Experience with Confluent Kafka is preferred
Experience developing native MS Azure Cloud based applications is also required
Experience collaborating with development and architecture teams to provide guidance on priorities
Must have SAFe experience or relevant Agile experience and feel comfortable leading backlog refinement sessions and demoing the work completed by the development team to a larger audience
Strong comfort using Azure DevOps or a similar tool (like Jira) to create work items for the development team.
They will need to understand cloud based as well as on-prem applications.
Strong understanding of Azure function apps/logic apps/durable functions is required
The ideal candidate is someone who takes initiative in scoping out work for their development team.
The candidate is organized, able to present/communicate in front of larger groups, able to collaborate with other teams

Candidates with experience in non-credit type Payment Methods/Government Assistance Program implementation as it pertains to e-commerce solutions is preferred.
Note: This is a managerial role. Candidates must have prior development experience. Developers currently seeking development roles are requested not to apply.