Lead Product Owner
Caterpillar Inc.
full-time
Posted on:
Location Type: Hybrid
Location: Peoria • Illinois, Texas • 🇺🇸 United States
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💰 $128,470 - $208,770 per year
Job Level
Senior
Tech Stack
AWSAzureCloudJava
About the role
- Responsible for maximizing the value of the product and the work of the Development Team
- Responsible for acting as Product Owner for larger, more complex projects with high value to the organization
- Responsible for creating, maintaining, and prioritizing the Product Backlog according to business value for the life of the project
- Communicate Product Backlog priorities to the team
- Responsible for the vision of the solution and conveying that vision to the team
- Collaborate with Lead Engineers on decomposition of epics, themes and features into user stories that are small enough, or granular enough, to be achieved in a single sprint.
- Negotiate business requirements and their release dates with Business Product Owners and development teams.
- Responsible for conveying the vision and goals at the beginning of every sprint.
- Work closely with key stakeholders throughout the organization.
- Participate in Daily Scrum as needed
- Participate in Sprint Planning meetings, Demos and Retrospectives
- Inspect the product progress at the end of every Sprint and accept or reject the work that has been done by the Development Team
- Act as the voice of the team, communicating status externally
- Be a good role model of Scrum values; understand the framework and the roles of each team member
- Be a champion for the agile community and help to further the community within the organization
- Employee is also responsible for performing other job duties as assigned by Caterpillar management from time to time.
Requirements
- Bachelor’s degree in business management, computer science, information systems, or related field
- Experience as a Technical Product Owner
- Must have a strong understanding of software development and technologies such as Java, API services and AWS/Azure cloud development
- Experience managing product backlogs using Agile software tools such as Azure DevOps
- Experience in deploying and maintaining software in public clouds such as Azure/AWS.
- Proven experience in designing and developing software solutions at scale.
- Experience working with onshore/offshore team model
- Experience in design and development of cloud-native software solutions at scale
- Previous experience in leading a technical team while simultaneously managing multiple projects.
- Proven experience as a Scrum Master or Agile Coach in software development projects
- Ability to collaborate effectively with cross-functional teams and stakeholders
- Excellent communication, facilitation, and interpersonal skills
- Should be familiar with project management methodologies as they will participate in multiple projects representing expertise for the application or process.
- Strong ability to communicate across various groups and at all levels of the business that include stakeholders, business partners, customers, and vendors.
- Manages software product change requests from customers, vendors, and internal staff.
- Knowledge of software engineering concepts that include development, testing, integrations and deployment of software or applications.
- Experience with managing products using Cloud technologies.
- Experience with the business aspects and operation of digital products that include developing high quality, modernized, and highly integrated software applications.
- Thorough understanding of Quality/Testing plans such as Unit, SIT, Regression, UAT and Business Sign Off (BSO) activities, tasks, tools and techniques; ability to design, implement and evaluate acceptance tests for end-users.
- Flexibility and adaptability to thrive in a dynamic and fast-paced environment.
Benefits
- Medical, dental, and vision benefits*
- Paid time off plan (Vacation, Holidays, Volunteer, etc.)*
- 401(k) savings plans*
- Health Savings Account (HSA)*
- Flexible Spending Accounts (FSAs)*
- Health Lifestyle Programs*
- Employee Assistance Program*
- Voluntary Benefits and Employee Discounts*
- Career Development*
- Incentive bonus*
- Disability benefits
- Life Insurance
- Parental leave
- Adoption benefits
- Tuition Reimbursement
Applicant Tracking System Keywords
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Hard skills
JavaAPI servicesAWSAzureAgileScrumcloud-native software solutionssoftware developmentsoftware engineering conceptsQuality/Testing plans
Soft skills
communicationfacilitationinterpersonal skillscollaborationleadershipnegotiationflexibilityadaptabilityrole modelingstakeholder management