Job Description

Product Owner

Location:  McLean, VA (Hybrid)
Duration:  12 Month Contract
Pay:  $67/hr W2

W2 ONLY, NO C2C

About this role:
Seeking a Technology Product Owner to join Development Enablement organization within Chief Technology office (CTO) to own & drive the developer experience (DevEx) platform, continue to evolve the DevEx platform with technology trends, and provide modern development frameworks & tools for 25k+ developer.

Required Qualifications: MUST HAVE

• 5+ years of digital product management experience, or equivalent demonstrated through one or a combination of the following: work experience, training, military experience, education.
• 3+ years of experience with Agile practices and frameworks (e.g., Kanban, Scrum, etc.) and workflow and collaboration tools, such as Confluence, Jira and Jira Align.
• 4+ years of experience of application architecture, design, and development in Java or .NET
• 2+ years of experience in building presentations and communication, at all levels of the organization, including senior executive-level leadership.

• Define, evolve, and clearly communicate the DevEx platform vision, roadmap, and success metrics, ensuring alignment with enterprise technology strategy, SDLC standards, and developer productivity goals.
• Translate enterprise developer needs, technology standards, and emerging trends into actionable product epics, features, and outcomes across the DevEx ecosystem.
• Own the end-to-end product lifecycle from ideation through delivery, adoption, and continuous improvement for DevEx capabilities.
• Maintain a healthy, transparent, and prioritized backlog, ensuring all known work (features, technical debt, risk, compliance, and enablement items) is captured and sequenced appropriately.
• Engage in industry, technology, and DevEx research and discovery to incorporate and prioritize key findings into the product area backlog.
• Drive developer adoption and satisfaction by ensuring DevEx tools are intuitive, well-documented, and supported by clear onboarding and change communications.
• Deliver solutions that are long-term, large-scale and require vision, creativity, innovation, advanced analytical and inductive thinking.
• Strategically engage with developers and managers across the enterprise
• Actively own the prioritization of a clearly understood product area backlog aligned to product area vision and goals.
• Identify and resolve sequencing and prioritization conflicts across products and product areas.

• 2+ years of Cloud development experience
• Experience with human centered design principles
• Strong risk management leadership skills
• Strong dependency management skills
• Ability to work and influence successfully within a matrix environment and build effective business partnerships with all levels of team members.
• Comfortable with ambiguity and facilitating discussions to explore the best possible solutions and possess the ability to lead.