Sr. Software Product Owner

Sr. Software Product Owner

Company:

The Boeing Company

The Boeing Company is currently seeking a Senior Software Product Owner to support our FishTools team located in Aurora, CO or Chantilly, VA. This position will focus on supporting the Boeing Defense Services (BDS) business organization.

We’re seeking a highly talented, motivated, and creative software product owner to engineer new solutions and support existing capabilities of an agile software program for the national intelligence community.

Position Responsibilities:
•    Analyzing high level customer requirements and deriving lower-level functional requirements.
•    Ability to lead and direct the activities and resources of assigned projects and support management and engineering in large scale and complex projects.
•    Leading/planning software development tasks including detailed software design, coding, and unit/integration/functional/system testing of customer desired features/user stories, ensuring successful achievement of acceptance criteria.
•    Customer/stakeholder presentation and reporting skills.  Briefing software designs and demonstrating software release functionality to customer/stakeholders/end users.
•    Develop and sustain new and existing applications; as well as troubleshoot and resolve various software issues.
•    Contribute to the creation of new distributed components and interactions that align with the future system architecture.  The existing multi-tiered system is developed on a cloud infrastructure with several consumer-facing web applications.
•    Knowledge of project planning processes and tools (i.e., project management software) to define, design, and plan projects, achieve project deliverables, optimize the contributions of internal and external resources, and accomplish desired business results.
•    Effective use of Atlassian Products (e.g. Jira, Confluence, Crucible, etc.)
•    Occasional business travel and after-hours support may be required.

This position is expected to be 100% onsite.  The selected candidate will be required to work onsite at one of the listed location options.

Basic Qualifications (Required Skills/ Experience):

•    This position requires an active Top Secret with SCI eligibility U.S. Security Clearance. (US Citizenship is required) (A U.S. Security Clearance that has been active in the past 24 months is considered active).
•    10+ years of experience in a Product Leadership, Product Operations, Product Management or Agile Project Management role
•    3+ years of experience with Agile software development lifecycle 

Preferred Qualifications (Desired Skills/Experience):

•    Bachelor of Science degree from an accredited course of study in engineering, engineering technology (includes manufacturing engineering technology), chemistry, physics, mathematics, data science, or computer science.

•    Solid background in Java and foundational knowledge of object-oriented design and software patterns (5+ years of experience)
•    Experience using dependency management (Ivy, Maven, Gradle)
•    Experience developing and maintaining SOAP, RMI, REST APIs and interfaces
•    Experience using cloud-based infrastructure (AWS)
•    Knowledge of Git or other DVCS; experience using automation server (Jenkins)
•    Experience/knowledge of the GEOINT domain
•    Familiarity with practices such as test-driven development (TDD), agile software development, continuous integration, and dependency management is preferred.

Travel: 10%

Drug Free Workplace:
Boeing is a Drug Free Workplace (DFW) where post offer applicants and employees are subject to testing for marijuana, cocaine, opioids, amphetamines, PCP, and alcohol when criteria is met as outlined in our policies.

CodeVue Coding Challenge:
To be considered for this position you will be required to complete a technical assessment as part of the selection process.  Failure to complete the assessment will remove you from consideration.

Pay & Benefits: 
At Boeing, we strive to deliver a Total Rewards package that will attract, engage and retain the top talent.  Elements of the Total Rewards package include competitive base pay and variable compensation opportunities.  

The Boeing Company also provides eligible employees with an opportunity to enroll in a variety of benefit programs, generally including health insurance, flexible spending accounts, health savings accounts, retirement savings plans, life and disability insurance programs, and a number of programs that provide for both paid and unpaid time away from work.  

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