Abacus Technology is seeking a Product Owner to support the Applications and Platforms Services (APS) Service Line for the eMITS program at Marshall Space Flight Center.  This is a full-time position.

• Serve as the Product Owner within the Platform and Web Experience, Agile Release Train (ART) throughout all stages of the product life cycle; Introduction, Growth, Maturity, and Decline.
• Work closely with business owners, customers, stakeholders, system architects, product management team, and others ensuring business value, and aligning outcomes.
• Identify problems to be solved, guide story creation ensuring they are aligned with product strategy, assist with ART backlog prioritization, communicate the roadmap during PI Planning, and accept stories.
• Evaluate progress toward story acceptance criteria and value delivered from the backlog.
• Participate in iteration planning, backlog refinement, iteration reviews, team retrospectives, and team sync meeting.

8+ years experience as a product owner including at least 5 years utilizing Scaled Agile Framework (SAFe).  Bachelor’s degree in a related field.  Must hold the following certifications: SAFe Practitioner and SAFe Product Owner/Product Manager.  Experience performing as a product owner across multiple teams within an Agile Release Train (ART).  Familiar with System Applications and Products (SAP).  Experience in a product management role.  Familiar with Power Automate tools, Jira, PI Planning.io, Mural, and Jira Align.  Able to provide outstanding communication to Product Management, customers, stakeholders, and all other members of the ART.  Must be extremely organized with excellent time-management skills.  Must be highly motivated and able to shift gears rapidly and frequently as needed or as dictated by the customer.  Must be process oriented and able to adhere to defined procedural guidance.  Must have initiative and ability to drive projects to success and prioritize multiple high-visibility tasks.  Able to tailor technical communications, both verbally and written to audiences possessing a varying degree of IT experience and knowledge.  Must work well both independently and with various stakeholders from other NASA Programs/Organizations including contractors from eMITS and other contracts.  Experience with advanced utilization of various Microsoft applications such as Teams, SharePoint, Microsoft 365.  Previous experience with NASA preferred.  Must be a US citizen.

Applicants selected will be subject to a U.S. government security investigation and must meet eligibility requirements for access to classified information.

EOE/M/F/Vet/Disabled