Product Portfolio Analyst

Product Portfolio Analyst

Client: SBA

POP: 3 months

Location: Initially hybrid in Fairfax, VA; May need to report full time on-site to Washington, DC per client needs.

SCOPE

Organize, coordinate, and report various elements of X Product teams. This may include strategy, schedules, requirements, feature set releases, internal and external stakeholder management, and roadmap development. You will maintain and prioritize feature backlogs and outline feature scope, acceptance criteria, and metrics. Additionally, you will work alongside internal groups and customers to gain insight into their enhancement requests, educate them on new features, and assist them with implementation decisions.

REQUIRED SKILLS

• Must have Public Trust clearance
• Requires a Bachelor's degree and 5 years of prior relevant, additional experience in lieu of a degree
• Minimum of five (5) years of experience
• Prior Agile and Scrum experience
• Demonstrate the ability to understand the scope of upcoming work and collaborate with the Technical Lead to assist with decision-making and sequencing the critical technological infrastructures that will host the new business functionality.
• Ability to translate requirements, feedback, and requests into Epics and Stories.
• Story writing experience
• Capacity to work well in groups and the ability to lead
• Experience using Agile tracking tools, preferably Jira and Confluence
• Passion and a continuous improvement mindset
• Self-motivated
• Problem-solving skills
• Demonstrated skills and experience in presenting analytical results, both verbally and in writing, are required.
• Must be proficient with common productivity software, including Microsoft Office (Word, Excel, PowerPoint, SharePoint, Visio, and Outlook).
• Must have excellent verbal and written communication skills and be highly organized with attention to detail. Must be comfortable and capable of interacting with Government, contractor, and executive leadership.

PREFERRED SKILLS

• Scrum Alliance Certified Scrum Product Owner (CSPO) or equivalent PO certification
• Strong knowledge of DevOps tools and processes
• Experience in utilizing diverse metrics to drive team and product improvement
• Amazon Web Services. Java Eclipse/Git/Jenkins Relational Databases Web service development
• Previous management consulting experience.
• Experience with a federal agency as a contractor or federal employee

TASKS

• Work with other POs and leadership to help shape the product vision and enumerate high-level priorities.
• Prepare for and participate in Sprint Planning.
• Consistently refine and prepare program backlog. Build, edit, prioritize, and maintain the team backlog.
• Progressively elaborate requirements and suggestions from stakeholders and the team
• Work with an Agile Scrum team to develop and scrub stories to ensure accurate story estimates and sequencing.
• Collaborate with the team to detail story acceptance criteria and examples in the form of acceptance tests.
• Communicate story details and priorities and ensure the team aligns and agrees on a final iteration plan.
• Validate that stories meet acceptance criteria and the team's Definition of Done when the team is ready for story review.
• Be available to answer the team's questions to clarify sprint work.
• Collaborate with the team and any other stakeholders in the Sprint Demo and participate in the Sprint Retrospective.e
• Coordinate dependencies with other POs and work across teams to define and implement improvement stories to increase the program's velocity and quality.
• Work with users and stakeholders to collect feedback to incorporate into the backlog.
• Communicate regularly with the team, stakeholders, and users.
• Act as liaison between stakeholders and the team
• Evaluate product progress and quality.
• All other duties as assigned by management.