Technical Product Owner

Location: Chicago, IL Description: Our client is currently seeking a Technical Product Owner

• Create a shared understanding with stakeholders and engage team members to gather and understand requirements.
• Streamline execution of program priorities while maintaining feature and component integrity
• Strong technical product owner working with a group of high-functional engineers and architects
• Systematically analyze problems, drawing relevant conclusions, devising appropriate courses of action.
• Maintain the team backlog, review, and contribute to the program vision, roadmap, and content presentations.
• Translate features and stories and document them using Behavioral-Driven Development format.
• Create acceptance criteria to express requirements and ensure test and validation plans are complete and manage acceptance of completed stories ensuring Definition of Done (DoD) is met.
• Ensure traceability between requirements to Features to user stories
• Drive and participate in team demo and retrospectives
• Accountable for sprint readiness and delivery.
• Be the primary liaison between product managers and development teams. Communicate scope changes to the delivery team.
• Collaborate with product management, other POs, and architects to understand and elaborate market requirements, uphold business vision, and create stories for the team while resolving any dependencies.

• Bachelor's degree in related field, where required.
• 3+ years in product management owning one or more SaaS cloud product
• Hands-on experience integrating open-source components into cloud solutions
• Knowledge of application development lifecycles, & continuous integration/deployment practices
• Proficiency in JavaScript and frontend experience with Angular highly desired
• Hands on experience with AWS services such as Lambda, CloudTrail, CloudWatch, DynamoDB, SNS, S3, IAM a plus
• Solid knowledge of virtualization technologies and platforms desired
• Power user knowledge of modern operating systems and IT networks/infrastructure
• Strong communication and collaboration skills in global setup
• Passionate and self-motivated to learn and keen to constantly improve and develop skills to stay current with technology
• Successful experience in a directly related field and successful demonstration of Key Responsibilities and Knowledge as presented above