Product Owner

Immediate need for a talented Product Owner. This is 18+ Months Contracting opportunity with long-term potential and is located in Riverwoods, IL(Onsite). Please review the job description below and contact me ASAP if you are interested.

Job ID: 25-92913

Pay Range: $75/hr - $80/hour. Employee benefits include, but are not limited to, health insurance (medical, dental, vision), 401(k) plan, and paid sick leave (depending on work location).

Key Responsibilities:

• Responsible for defining, prioritizing, and accepting initiatives and features, in partnership with consumers and Architects, including acceptance criteria.
• Accountable for managing the product pipeline (feature backlog) and delivery of these features for every release and iteration.
• Responsible for delivery of features and accountable for the delivery of User Stories, in partnership with the Scrum Master and Team
• Manage initiatives and features from a consumer perspective. Identifies, communicates, and breaks down features to define MVP.
• Responsible for clarifying and communicating features to the delivery team in collaboration with the Product Area Director
• Responsible for writing, refining, and updating user stories in an agile management tool, ensuring the team backlog stays full and prioritized.
• Plays a significant role in quality and is the only team member empowered to accept features and user stories as complete.
• Partners with Product Area Director, and Architects on the Product vision/roadmap and initiative prioritization/delivery.
• Responsible for setting the Objectives and Key Results (OKR’s) encompassing their span of control.
• Responsible for managing product budget/financials, vendor management, risk management, and compliance per Client policies and procedures.
• Accountable for managing product total cost of ownership (TCO)
• Ensures the team builds the right product or solution as required in accordance with the Architectural specifications and in alignment with the product roadmap and vision.
• Engages with stakeholders, Product Owners, and Architects to understand consumer needs.
• Partners with Chapter Leads to provide input on team member performance.

Key Requirements and Technology Experience:

• Must Have: Scrum, Agile, Infrastructure or Middleware, Kubernetes or Openshift.
• Partnering with Product Family Director, the Product Owner is responsible for developing, maintaining, and presenting the vision, strategy and consumer facing roadmaps for OpenShift Container Platform (OCP aka the Red Hat version of Kubernetes / k8s).
• These product roadmaps will be in alignment with the BT Technical Strategy and Operation Capabilities.
• The Product Owner should have in-depth knowledge of the k8s platform, operators running on the platform, CICD integration to k8s, cluster health observability, and cost optimization awareness.
• The Developer Experience (DevEx) area is responsible for maintaining a self-service portal, Golden Image creation, helm chart updates and optimization of the platform for the teams that use it.

Our client is a leading Financial Industry, and we are currently interviewing to fill this and other similar contract positions. If you are interested in this position, please apply online for immediate consideration.

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