Description
Join us at Leidos, where your most important work is ahead! You will enjoy great benefits such as paid time off (PTO), flexible schedules, discounted stock purchase plans, career growth, unlimited education and training support, parental paid leave and more! You will have the opportunity to work under the best leadership in the industry at all levels; where supporting their employees and what they do….is what matters.
Leidos is seeking an experienced technical Product Owner to support on a new, large, multi-year contract for systems engineering, integration, software and mobile development modernize program.
Primary Responsibilities
Responsible for facilitating self-organizing team(s) to ensure the team is making progress against Program Increment commitments
Protects the team from scope creep during execution of the PI
Removes impediments for the team and coordinates with the Release Train Engineer in implementing solutions
Helps team members communicate, coordinate, and cooperate
Supports and enforces Scrum process and other rules
Ensures that the team has a clear technical understanding of Definition of Done and how to meet it
Coordinates with other teams on the Agile Release Train (ART) and communicates status to management
Leads and facilitates SAFe ceremonies to include sprint planning, sprint review, demos, sprint retro, and PI planning
Develop User Stories to meet the Feature acceptance criteria
Maintains and generates information radiators for the teams
Collects and shares team metrics with the team, determines when new metrics are needed, and develops improvements in metrics
Coaches teams on agile and scrum principles with a goal of continuous improvement
Observes team dynamics, recognizes strengths and weaknesses of individual team member's contributions, and coaches the team as a whole driving improvements in productivity
Creates a fun sharing and learning environment, experimenting with various ideas to improve delivery including pair-programming and cross-functional training
Promotes teamwork to achieve sprint goals
Leads teams towards agile maturity
Basic Qualifications
Active TS/SCI with Polygraph
Typically requires BS degree and 12-15 years of prior relevant, additional experience in lieu of degree
Additional experience may be substituted for a Degree.
Experience in working as a Scrum Master or Team Lead for a software development or similar technical team
Certified Scrum Master (CSM), SAFe Scrum Master (SSM) or similar agile project management certification (PMI-ACP)
Experience using agile project management tools (e.g. Jira, VersionOne, Rallye, IBM RTC)
Excellent written, verbal, and interpersonal communication skills, and time management skills are a must
Ability to thrive in a fast paced environment, across diverse systems and groups
Pay Range:
Pay Range $108,550.00 - $196,225.00
The Leidos pay range for this job level is a general guideline onlyand not a guarantee of compensation or salary. Additional factors considered in extending an offer include (but are not limited to) responsibilities of the job, education, experience, knowledge, skills, and abilities, as well as internal equity, alignment with market data, applicable bargaining agreement (if any), or other law.
Original Posting Date:
01/17/2024
While subject to change based on business needs, Leidos reasonably anticipates that this job requisition will remain open for at least 3 days with an anticipated close date of no earlier than 3 days after the original posting date as listed above.
REQNUMBER: R-00126706
All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, disability or veteran status. Leidos will consider qualified applicants with criminal histories for employment in accordance with relevant Laws. Leidos is an equal opportunity employer/disability/vet.