Agile Product Owner

• Collaborate with agile teams to build and manage new features and capabilities while delivering desired business impact, while providing thought leadership to Program Governance activities such as prioritization and negotiating with stakeholders on backlog priorities.
• Responsible for owning the technical roadmap and non-functional requirements for product (e.g. page rendering times, how long it takes to log in, response on service calls).
• Work with disparate business groups to optimize business and financial cases for how technology will deliver their projects.
• Create, evolve and communicate feature area specifications that form cohesive, iterative plans that align to the multi release vision.
• Write high-quality Definition of Ready user stories using JIRA and maintain groomed backlog for business stakeholder priorities, and incorporate architectural changes recommended by engineering into user stories.
• Proactively resolve upstream dependencies and resolve conflict effectively across teams.
• Advocate for process improvements through an understanding of the engineering lifecycle and previous experience.
• Monitor and instrument products for business outcomes and tech product health.
• Ensure timely communication and facilitation of resolution for any product defects.
• Integrate and deploy tooling (e.g. Git and Jenkins) for team (place hold capacity).
• Enable test automation (i.e. acceptance criteria should be clear, agreed upon and tests should be automated).
• Focus on reducing technical debt to deliver value in terms of efficiency and quality metrics.

Required:

• 3-5 years of relevant experience
• Experience working in technology as a system analyst or developer specific to COBOL mainframe systems, front-end applications, and APIs.
• Complete understanding and wide application of technical principles, theories and concepts in the field.
• Knowledge of user experience and technical design is essential.
• Proven skill at balancing technical knowledge with business possibility and acumen.
• Excellent communication skills, analytical mindset, ability to assess risk.
• Ability to work cross functionally with Compliance, IRM, Infrastructure, and Software Engineering.
• High degree of comfort in fast-paced dynamic / ambiguous environment.

Education:

• Bachelor s degree in related field or equivalent work experience.

GalaxE, now Endava, is a professional IT services firm that specializes in platform-driven solutions and the use of automation to achieve enterprise business transformation and mission-critical change for some of the largest companies in the world. Using our proprietary solution set, GxFource , we apply machine learning techniques and predictive analytics tools as part of a broad artificial intelligence strategy that provides effective impact and data-driven business transformation.

Since its founding, GalaxE has been dedicated to advancing the benefits of technology. Recently, we have joined forces with Endava, to offer our employees global exposure and enhanced opportunities. As we continue that legacy and look to the future, a focus on business enablement through agile, cost-efficient, and effective integration of people, process, and technology anchors our success. We revolutionize change in the costs of doing business that transform companies and their ability to leap beyond the competition.

We value people and are committed to diversity and inclusion where our employees are made to feel comfortable and are encouraged to be authentic.

We are always looking for passionate, entrepreneurial-minded innovators and disrupters; game-changers that take ownership of the work they produce and bring it each and every day. Working with like-minded team members you will get a chance to discover, develop, and use cutting-edge technologies to transform the way we deliver creative business solutions.

Sound like you? Join us and find out for yourself what it means for you, and your career, to be part of the GalaxE team. Let s build something, together.

*Equal Opportunity Employer/Veterans/Disabled

** Pay is based on several factors including market location and may vary depending on actual job-related knowledge, skills, and experience.

Physical Requirements:

• Prolonged periods of remaining stationary at a desk and working on a computer
• Must be able to lift to 15 lbs., as needed
• Must be able to work on-site (corporate/client offices), as needed (not applicable for 100% remote roles)
• Occasionally required to bend, kneel, crouch, and reach overhead.
• Hand-eye coordination necessary to operate computers and various pieces of office equipment.
• Specific vision abilities required include close vision, the ability to tolerate fluorescent lighting, and the ability to adjust focus.

Employees must be able to perform the physical requirements of the position satisfactorily and, if requested, reasonable accommodations will be made to enable employees requiring accommodations to perform the essential functions of their jobs, absent undue hardship.

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