Product Owner / Mossville ,IL (Onsite ) 6+ Months Contract

Onsite Role

Job Description:
Description:

• Coaching team members in agile principles and best practices
• Hosting and guiding the team(s) daily stand-up meetings
• Backlog refinement of features, user stories, defects
• Hosting and coordinating team(s) sprint reveals
• Hosting and guiding team(s) sprint retrospectives
• Assisting the Solution Leads/Solution Architects with Feature backlog refinement and prioritization
• Assisting and removing any roadblocks identified by the sprint team
• Creating the user stories for the feature that is defined by Solution
• Lead/Team Lead/Manager Assignment of bugs that the teams need to triage by severity and impact
• Understanding capacity and resources for programs/quarters
• Estimating proper delivery dates on the feature
• Maintaining and updating required/optional fields on Features, user stories, and defects

Typical Day:

• The day is mostly made up of Scrum Master duties, along with Business Analyst duties of decomposition of features. They will also be acting as a Business Analyst, and working with the Business team on requirements. These tasks are refined in the "Position's Contributions to Work Group" listed above.

Technical Skills Required:
The individual must be able to do the following:

• Must have at least 5+ years exp with Azure Devops listed
• Create work items in Microsoft Azure DevOps
• Create Dashboards in Microsoft Azure DevOps
• Create Queries in Microsoft Azure DevOps
• Must have at least one Agile role ceritifcation
• Use Excel for pivot tables, burn down charts, data analysis, reporting, data forecasting
• Properly create presentations for senior leadership pertaining to program statistics, health, work load, target dates, etc.

Soft Skills Required:

• Excellent written and verbal skills. Must be able communicate program(s) to sprint team, working team, and leadership team.

Education Requirements:

• Bachelor's degree in a technical field such as computer science, computer engineering, or related field required. MBA or other related advanced degree preferred. PMI or PMP certification preferred. 10+ years of experience required.