Experienced Technical Product Owner

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The Boeing Technical Solutions team is currently looking for Experienced Technical Product Owner to join their team in Chennai, TN. This position will focus on supporting the Boeing Global Services business organization.

Candidates applying for this position must have strong experience in backlog management and maximizing product value.

Position Responsibilities:

Requirements Development and stakeholder management

• Create and manage Technical backlog of several digital application products.
• Works with Biz team and Architect to transform business requirements breaking down features into user stories
• Works with Biz team and Architect to transform business requirements to functional and non-functional technical requirements
• Enter requirements into Contour/Jama and maintains requirement change control.
• Ensures requirements quality by creating and managing requirements reviews.
• Prepare and share DOR document with the stakeholders.
• Quickly understands the business issues and data challenges of client’s organization and industry.
• Identifies client organization’s strengths and weaknesses and suggests areas of improvement.
• Reviews and edits requirements, specifications, business processes and recommendations related to proposed solution.
• Develops functional specifications and system design specifications for client engagements.
• Works with development team to refine and clarify requirements.
• Performs current state analysis, gap analysis, risk assessment, and other related tasks as directed.
• This position provides periodic updates to Boeing management in the form of progress reports, project summaries, and other related documents. This position will also be responsible for coordinating and communicating regularly with experts in Boeing organizations around the world.

PI Planning-

• Participate in PI planning and help/work with teams in establishing PI commitments.
• Provide the priority for the user stories for the PI planning.
• Works with the team to answer questions and clarify requirements.
• Support team on any impediments related to requirements and scope.

PI Execution –

• Participate in Sprint Planning, Backlog Refinement, Retrospectives, End of Sprint Demos, Daily Stand Ups, System demos, Story acceptance
• Provide the priority for the user stories in the sprint planning.
• Support team on any impediments related to requirements and scope.
• Work with the RTM/Product Manager for UAT schedule planning.
• Drive UAT and co-ordinate with Business team. Perform sanity test in the UAT environment.
• Validate the bug fixes in UAT before giving to Business team.
• Prioritize and classify the UAT bugs along with the business team.
• Share UAT progress status to the stakeholders. Get the UAT approval from the Business team for the release.
• Participates in the review of the User Guide as an Approver.
• Participate in Production deployment window.
• Participate in Scrum of Scrum meetings on need basis.
• Regular testing / participate in internal demo of user stores in the development phase and approve for UAT.
• Validate crowd test bugs.
• Participate in all Scrum / SAFe events.
• Participate in Business Team Scrum meeting to provide daily updates.

Shared roles (Product mgr. Vs TPO)

• Come up Vision and Roadmap along with Product manager and share to team
• Come up with Release planning forecast work with product manager and Scrum master
• Identify Personas for product, work with product manager
• Defect management - key responsibility
• Product positioning along with Product manager

Domain Skills

• Knowledgeable about airline flight operations and piloting procedures
• Knowledgeable in learning management systems.
• Flight Management System (FMS) domain knowledge
• Knowledge on Weather, Wind updates, GRIB, , Navigation database, Notams, CRAM/CDR, Brief idea on enroute charges and Tracks, ACARS, Euro control B2B feeds
• Familiar with Airspace structure domain knowledge
• Knowledge of Airline Operations Center (AOC) domain

Basic Qualifications (Required Skills/Experience): (9-12 years)

• Practical knowledge of software requirements development.
• User story development.
• Understanding and demonstration of:
  • Actor Diagrams,Class Diagrams,Activity Flow Diagrams,Business Service Diagrams,Sequence Diagrams,Use Case Modeling
• Demonstrated ability to use office automation to include:
  • Microsoft Office software
• Software application experience preferred but not required:
  • Contour, JIRA
• Communication
  • Assists in the facilitation of team and client meetings.
  • Delivers informative, well-organized presentations.
  • Understands how to communicate difficult/sensitive information tactfully.
  • Excellent verbal and written English, including grammar.
• Technical Understanding
  • Possesses understanding in the areas of software development , database and system design.
  • Understands Internet and client/server architectures in a web-based application.
  • Good understanding and experience of Distributed systems design considerations
  • Good understanding and experience with Micro services based architecture
  • Good understanding on container technologies Docker, Kubernetes.
  • Good understanding of public cloud AWS and Azure.
  • Experience of Agile methodology in a software environment.
• Problem Solving
  • Identifies critical issues with ease.
  • Exhibits confidence and an extensive knowledge of emerging industry practices when solving business problems.
• Must have experience working with cross-functional teams spread across multiple products and locations within Boeing and external partners, across different cultures and time-zones.
• Pushes creative thinking beyond the boundaries of existing industry practices and client mindset
• Analytical mind with a problem-solving aptitude

Preferred Qualifications (Desired Skills/Experience):

• Bachelor’s degree or 3 year Diploma with typically 8 to 12 Years related work experience and/or a Master’s degree or 3 year Diploma with typically 7 to 11 Year’s related work experience or relevant military experience
• CSPO certification
• Pilot or Airline operations experience