Product Owner

Product Owner

Job Category: Information Technology

Time Type: Full time

Minimum Clearance Required to Start: TS/SCI

Employee Type: Regular

Percentage of Travel Required: None

Type of Travel: None

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CACI is seeking a Product Owner in the Springfield, VA and/or St. Louis, MO area.

What You’ll Get to Do:

A Product Owner will assist with the maturation of our customer's corporate applications suite. The candidate will have knowledge of the agile development life cycle. This position requires the candidate to be able to interact and communicate externally with our clients as well as internally within the team. We are seeking candidates with substantial customer engagement experience, and project/product management.

More About the Role:

• Gather and shape requirements.
• Manage and groom a product backlog.
• Maintain customer engagement.
• Set development scrum team priorities.
• Ensure that all issues comply with the program CM Plan.
• Perform end user training.
• Effectively communicate with client and internal team.
• Apply appropriate technical, industry, and functional knowledge to all work efforts.
• Accomplish assigned tasks by specified due date.
• Identify problems and alert supervisors with sufficient lead time to avert potential crises.
• Identify changes in scope or work effort that could result in budgetary overrun or the missing of delivery dates.
• Operate independently - as appropriate - and work cooperatively as part of a team to accomplish the goals of the program and the client.
• Interact effectively with client personnel, includes both project team members and users. 
• Report time into the time reporting systems in an accurate and timely manner consistent with project guidelines.
• Continually broaden technical, functional, and industry skill base.

You’ll Bring These Qualifications:

• Bachelor’s degree or equivalent.
• 3+ years of experience in information technology or client services industry.
• Strong client facing skills and ability to interact at a high level with client leadership.
• Exceptional written and verbal communications skills.
• Ability to work independently in a fast paced, constantly changing environment.
• Active/current Top Secret clearance with SCI eligibility, and the ability to obtain/maintain a Polygraph is required.

These Qualifications Would be Nice to Have:

• Bachelor's Degree in Business, Computer Science, Engineering or related field.
• SAFe PO/PM or other PO certification and prior experience with Agile methodologies.
• Experience using Agile Project Management tools, such as Jira.
• Experience supporting HR, Financial, or Supply Chain applications.

What We Can Offer You:

- We’ve been named a Best Place to Work by the Washington Post.

- Our employees value the flexibility at CACI that allows them to balance quality work and their personal lives.

- We offer competitive benefits and learning and development opportunities.

- We are mission-oriented and ever vigilant in aligning our solu