Senior Product Owner (Remote)

ICF is a mission-driven company filled with people who care deeply about improving the lives of others and making the world a better place. Our core values include Embracing Difference; we seek candidates who are passionate about building a culture that encourages, embraces, and hires dimensions of difference.

The Team

Our Health Engineering Solutions (HES) team works side by side with customers to articulate a vision for success, and then make it happen. We know success doesn't happen by accident. It takes the right team of people, working together on the right solutions for the customer. We are looking for a seasoned Senior Product Owner who will be a key driver to make this happen.

(Please include a brief summary of what your team does/supports)

Our team supports the development and maintenance of the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services’ (CMS) End-Stage Renal Disease Quality Reporting System (EQRS) application. These mission-critical systems, used daily by tens of thousands of healthcare providers nationwide, ensure patients receive the highest quality of care. Leveraging modern technologies, DevOps practices, and cloud-based infrastructure, our dynamic work environment involves multiple project teams collaborating toward a common vision of delivering an integrated solution.

The Work

We are looking for a Senior Product Owner who will play a pivotal role on a high performing Agile software development team, driving the vision of the product through the program backlog and into product backlogs. You will interact with individuals from many disciplines across the team, including subject matter experts, business analysts, architects, and technical leads. You will also be a key touch point in our human-centered design approach, working closely with user researchers and user experience designers to ensure the product vision is appropriately captured.

Key Responsibilities and Job Duties:

• Identify and refine customer needs and program strategy 

• Own and refine the vision of the program and products 

• Effectively break down the program vision into features and epics 

• Prioritize the features and epics on the program backlog 

• Derive an Agile program roadmap from the program backlog 

• Define minimum viable products and establish success criteria 

• Elicit requirements from the client and other stakeholders or workgroups 

• Collaborate closely with a wide range of individuals on the Agile team and work with them to design technically feasible solutions that meet the client’s needs 

• Write user stories and prioritize them based on the requirements 

• Refine and manage the product and sprint backlogs  

• Communicate vision, strategy, roadmaps, and backlogs to key stakeholders 

• Perform an active role in mitigating impediments impacting successful team completion of Release/Sprint Goals 

• Perform an active role preparing plans for Program Increment Planning meetings as part of the Scaled Agile Framework (SAFe) process 

• Present plans and demonstrate new features to a wide variety of audiences 

• Maintain strong relationships with clients and stakeholders 

• Our core work hours are 10am - 4pm Eastern Time with the option to start earlier or work later depending on your time zone. 

 Required Qualifications:

• Bachelor’s degree required (degree in Computer