Product Owner

By Light Professional IT Services LLC readies warfighters and federal agencies with technology and systems engineered to connect, protect, and prepare individuals and teams for whatever comes next. Headquartered in McLean, VA, By Light supports defense, civilian, and commercial IT customers worldwide.

By Light is looking for a Product Owner/ Requirement Analyst within its Federal Healthcare Division to work with our technology teams to develop infrastructure, capabilities and solutions in support of our Department of Veterans Affairs customer. As the Product Owner, you will bring the voice of the user into our product features, ensure that features delivered are aligned with the intended business and user outcomes, and align work with our target architecture road map.

Serve as a voice to project the expectations of customers on new or already existing products
• Highlight product features in a manner clearly understandable to the development team
• Manage and develop product backlog of Features / Epics
• Conduct backlog grooming meetings with a team of product owners
• Decompose Features / Epics into user stories for implementation by the scrum team
• Attend sprint planning and demo meetings to give feedback on sprint achievement, as well as to scrum team
• Monitor the progress of product development, as well as plan for product release
• Contact customers and end users to obtain information on expected product features
• Provide reports to update management and stakeholders on product development operations
• Analyze customer opinions and feedback to determine features or components that will add good value to a product
• Participate in agile conferences and study relevant scrum material to update job knowledge/skill
• Constantly exchange ideas with product owners within an organization
• Assess product value stream to identify areas that require improvements
• Measure product performance as well as value delivered to clients in order to make adjustments where necessary
• Develop and implement action plans for building and sustaining demand for a product
• Ensure implemented product features add value to end users and increase company returns

• 6 years of experience product ownership/management
• BA or BS degree
• 5 years of additional relevant experience may be substituted for education
• Knowledge of Agile, Human Center Design, DevSecOps, Risk Management, Schedule Management
• Experience with Identity Management and Access Management
• Understanding and experience using SAFe
• Able to direct and motivate the product development team of an organization
• Able to conduct surveys to determine most appropriate feature to add to a new or existing product
• Adept to working with user groups and scrum team to obtain and analyze user stories

• Veterans Affairs experience preferred.

• Candidate must be able to successfully complete a background check for Tier 4 (High) public trust