Job Description

Job Description

Job Description

QTEC Aerospace is seeking a LEAD PRODUCT OWNER to join our team of professionals in Huntsville, AL. The qualified applicant will become part of a team of professionals representing both industry and government. The successful candidate will be detail oriented, have a proven track record and a positive work ethic.

Job Summary

QTEC Aerospace is looking for highly capable and motivated individuals. The successful candidates will function as an integral member of a multi-contractor team providing program, engineering, and technical support to Missile Defense programs. The chosen candidate will coordinate priorities with the Team Product Owners. Together, they align backlog priorities with stakeholder and customer needs. The candidate will also support in developing and deploying CI/CD pipelines, automating software deliveries, and maintaining Software development pipelines.

Job Duties/Responsibilities

Responsibilities will include, but may not be limited to the following:

• Setting a strategic vision for the whole product
• Advises top management and customers on advanced technical research studies and applications; managerial/leadership experience or necessary skills
• Develop and communicate the overarching product vision across the product teams
• Coordinate and prioritize requests from multiple stakeholders across different products
• Work with teams to identify modernization and continuous improvement opportunities for their products and services
• Create and manage a single, prioritized backlog to be delivered by all of the teams
• Decide which metrics the Product Owner Team will monitor
• Assess customer product feedback and adjust the common backlog accordingly
• Leverage the continuous delivery pipeline to release value incrementally
• Collaborate with Scrum teams as well as Management
• Accountable for the efficient delivery of product increments according to the PI Plan
• Meet with Management, the customer, and other key stakeholders on a regular basis
• Allowing Leadership and other stakeholders to express their preferences to the PO Team, negotiate priorities, alter budgets, or realign teams to maximize the delivery of value.
• Assist in the application administration of multiple environments, software deployment, troubleshooting, and automation in a DevSecOps environment for a critical customer program

Minimum Education and Experience

• Bachelor's degree with 14 years of experience or Masters degree with 12 years of experience or equivalent professional experience

Required Knowledge, Skills and Abilities

• Experience leading and managing software development, working as a Product Owner, or developing software/systems
• Strong communication skills, able to tailor the message to different audiences
• Experience using tools and techniques for project planning and leading complete SDLC efforts
• Experience with Agile practices such as daily Scrum and PI Planning
• Good working knowledge of MS Office products
• Excellent verbal and written communication skills, including ability to collaborate with cross-functional teams, and prepare and brief presentations to the customer as needed
• Self-motivated and customer-oriented with the poise and flexibility required to work in a highly dynamic environment

Desired Knowledge, Skills and Abilities

• Working knowledge of Ballistic Missile Defense concepts, defense communications systems, and the BMDS in general
• Software Development/Testing experience
• Led strategy and management of Product portfolios
• Experience working as a Product Owner in Agile software delivery teams
• Proficiency in producing, organizing, and sharing knowledge articles and tracking work items using Atlassian Confluence and Jira
• Experience working with the leading DevOps practices and tooling (Hashicorp Tools, Gitlab, CI/CD, Jenkins, SonarQube, Ansible Tower, and Nexus Pro)

Security Clearance

Candidates must currently have and be able to maintain a minimum DoD SECRET level security clearance.

Location

Huntsville, AL

It is the policy of QTEC, Inc. not to discriminate on the basis of gender, age, race, religion, disability, veteran status or any protected statuses and to take affirmative action to employ and advance in employment qualified individuals within the company.

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