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Simple Technology Solutions is looking for an Product Manager to add to our team.
Quick Position Overview:
- This position requires a U.S. Person who is eligible to obtain any required Export Authorization
- Bachelor's Degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or related technical field is required
- Minimum of 10 years' position related experience is required
The Role:
Our NASA EED-3 Program is seeking a Product Manager to work in a fast-paced Agile environment that ensures the accurate and timely design, development, and deployment of products and services that allows the large collection of NASA earth science data to be more discoverable by the end user community. Search and Discovery is an Agile Release Train in which the products and services are built as part of the NASA’s Earth Observing System Data Information System (EOSDIS) program, which provides end-to-end capabilities for managing NASA’s Earth science data from various sources – satellites, aircraft, field measurements, and other programs. Search and Discovery products include the Common Metadata Repository (CMR) and Earthdata Search Client (EDSC).
As a member of the Raytheon EED-3 team you will ensure adherence to operational agreements and polices, compliance to program and NASA standards and requirements, leveraging of industry best practices for automation and scalability of assets, and implementation of issue detection and alerts.
The Product Manager at STS will:
- Defining and supporting the building of desirable, feasible, viable, and sustainable cloud-based products that meet customer needs over time.
- Collaborating with a wide range of people to identify and define customer needs for cloud platform usage.
- Managing expectations and requests from both internal and external stakeholders.
- Supporting the Agile Release Train (ART) in delivering value through the Program Kanban and Continuous Delivery Pipeline.
- Defining Releases and Program Increments (PI) priorities, as well as participating in PI planning.
- Managing and prioritizing the ART feature backlog, as well as ensuring product completeness.
- Developing and communicating the product vision and roadmap, for use towards coordinating the work of multiple Product Managers, ARTs, and Suppliers.
Education and Experience:
Required
- Bachelor’s degree and at least 10 years of experience building software applications for enterprise scale systems.
- At least 4 years of people management, including relationship building with key stakeholders, communicating technical findings with non-technical stakeholders, and working with subcontractor team members, in agile development environments.
- Experience working with geospatial data and tools, especially those related to this program (Common Metadata Repository and Earthdata Search).
- Ability to ensure that developed products are moving in the right direction, in step with the product vision, goals, and objectives.
- Ability to align development efforts to meet end-user needs and customer’s goals.
- Experience using metrics and data to drive a development team to a desired goal.
- Excellent verbal and written communication skills, with experience creating RACI charts.
Desired Experience
- Experience using Scaled Agile Framework (SAFe), particularly as a Product Owner or Product Manager.
- Knowledge of metadata cataloging and search engine indexing.
- Experience with conflict management between two or more parties.
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What We Do
Simple Technology Solutions (STS) has in-depth experience helping federal & state government agencies in their Agile/DevOps/Cloud adoption & transformation. We understand how people, process, and technology work together to dramatically transform how government IT organizations improve their ability to deliver quality software & cloud-enable IT services to their end-users. In addition to being experienced government contractors, we are experienced coaches and thought-leaders guiding government IT leaders through the Agile/DevOps/Cloud mental, skill & organizational shifts. To our government customers, we are a small business with a big knowledge of the DHS mission and technology landscape.
To our industry customers, we are a deeply connected, knowledgeable partner that you can trust as a services provider or strategic guide. STS is transforming complex into simple. KEEP I.T. SIMPLE!
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