SAFe Product Owner

Role: Senior SAFe Product Owner
Location: Remote Quarterly visits to client location at Washington DC or Wilmington DE
Duration: 12+ Months

Important Note:
Role is remote Quarterly travel required for PI Planning (Northeast corridor, typically Washington, DC or Wilmington, DE)

Must Have:
SAFe 6.0 Product Owner/Product Manager Certification

Summary:
As a Scaled Agile Framework (SAFe) Product Owner, you will play a crucial role in ensuring the successful delivery of our products and services, following the values, principles, and success patterns. You will be a member of a cross-functional team on our Agile Release Train (ART) responsible for delivering robust self-service data and analytics platforms. You will work with Product Management, Architecture, and other stakeholders to help define, prioritize, and validate the solution under development.
This ARTis focused on data and analytics, and the candidate should have experience in this area. You will ensure that our platform provides business users with accurate and trusted data; and the tools they need to find, access, and manage data with ease.
You will collaborate with business, technology, and data stakeholders to prioritize and deliver features that promote a data quality culture, data stewardship, compliance, and data excellence.

Responsibilities:
Product Ownership: Act as the primary voice of the customer and point of contact for the product, managing the product backlog for the team, ensuring that it reflects business priorities and drives value.
Vision and Strategy: Develop and communicate a clear product vision and strategy, ensuring alignment with business goals and customer needs.
Prioritization: Prioritize features and user stories based on business value, customer feedback, and technical feasibility, ensuring the team works on high-priority items.
Requirements Gathering and Feature Development: Partner with product management and the team to translate business needs into well-defined features, user stories, and acceptance criteria, with a focus on delivering high-quality, self-service data management solutions. Elicit and refine product requirements, user stories, and acceptance criteria to provide a clear understanding for development teams.
Stakeholder Engagement: Collaborate with stakeholders, including business leaders, customers, and development teams, to ensure everyone is aligned with the product vision.
Cross-Team Collaboration: Coordinate with other Product Owners to ensure that data, analytics, and platform efforts are coordinated and deliver business value towards running a successful passenger railroad.
Agile Framework: Implement and champion the principles of the Scaled Agile Framework (SAFe), ensuring agile methodologies are followed.
Roadmap Development: Contribute to a product roadmap that outlines the delivery schedule and milestones.
Metrics and Analysis: Define and track success metrics to measure the value and identify areas for improvement or pivots.
Leadership & Communication: Strong leadership, communication, and facilitation skills, with the ability to bridge the gap between business needs and technical delivery.
Demonstrated understanding of agile methodologies and the SAFe framework
Ability to prioritize and make data-driven decisions
Strong problem-solving and analytical skills
Experience with Jira Software, Confluence, FigJam, Jira Align, AgilityHealth, and similar tools

Required:
SAFe 6.0 Product Owner/Product Manager Certification or 3+ years of Scaled Agile product ownership or product management in a large organization
Typically, a minimum of 5+ years as an agile product owner and a bachelor s degree or, equivalent combination of related work experience/schooling in lieu of degree.

Preferred:
Data and Analytics Expertise: Broad knowledge of enterprise data and analytics.



About IDEXCEL, INC
Idexcel is an IT services organization, with a mission to bring great people and great organizations together. Our diverse client base represents a wide range of industries, including technology, telecom, insurance, healthcare, manufacturing, banking & financial services, food & commodities trading and federal organizations. Our teams of experienced recruiters directly work with client companies seeking exceptional people to help with their business initiatives. Idexcel, Inc. is an Equal Opportunity Employer. Qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, age, disability, military status, national origin or any other characteristic protected under federal, state, or applicable local law.