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Senior Technical Product Owner
Softcom, Inc
Washington, USA
Fulltime, Contract
Onsite
USD 65-80 hourly
Discovered 4 days ago
Product ownershipTechnical business analysisProduct vision and roadmapTechnical requirements and specificationsUser storiesSource-control platforms
Role Overview
The Senior Technical Product Owner leads product vision, priorities, and requirements for a research-collaboration tooling initiative.
The role translates business and research needs into technical requirements, user stories, and a roadmap.
The Product Owner partners with DevSecOps engineering teams, platform leads, architects, business analysts, economists, and senior stakeholders.
Key Skills for This Role
Product ownershipTechnical business analysisProduct vision and roadmapTechnical requirements and specificationsUser storiesSource-control platforms
Full Job Posting
Position Overview
The Senior Technical Product Owner leads product vision, priorities, and requirements for a research-collaboration tooling initiative.
The role translates business and research needs into technical requirements, user stories, and a roadmap.
The Product Owner partners with DevSecOps engineering teams, platform leads, architects, business analysts, economists, and senior stakeholders.
Product Vision and Requirements
- Define and maintain the product vision, priorities, and roadmap for research-collaboration tooling.
- Elicit and validate requirements with business stakeholders, architects, and technical subject-matter experts.
- Translate business and research-collaboration needs into technical specifications and user stories.
- Prioritize features and enhancements by business value and technical feasibility.
- Maintain traceability from business need through technical delivery.
Technical and Platform Leadership
- Assess source-control, developer-collaboration, technical authoring, research-sharing, and file-collaboration platforms.
- Partner with engineering and platform architects to evaluate integrations, repository and access models, scalability, performance, and technical tradeoffs.
- Identify constraints early and recommend practical technology-stack and integration approaches.
- Monitor the research-collaboration tooling landscape and adjust the roadmap as needed.
Stakeholder Communication and Delivery Support
- Serve as the primary liaison between business stakeholders and DevSecOps engineering and platform teams.
- Explain technical constraints, tradeoffs, and timelines to non-technical audiences in clear language.
- Communicate business priorities and external-collaborator needs to technical teams in actionable terms.
- Support planning, prioritization, organization, process mapping, and project-management activities.
- Maintain decision logs, meeting minutes, open-question lists, and requirements-change documentation.
Required Qualifications
- Bachelor’s degree in a related field or equivalent experience.
- 10 or more years of experience in product ownership, technical business analysis, or a related role; platform, tooling, or developer-collaboration experience is preferred.
- Demonstrated success defining product vision and converting stakeholder needs into technical specifications and user stories.
- Experience working with business analysts, senior leadership, engineers, and architects to validate feasibility and make technology decisions.
- Working knowledge of source-control and developer-collaboration platforms such as GitHub; technical authoring and research-collaboration platforms such as Overleaf; and file-collaboration or research-sharing platforms.
- Strong written and verbal communication skills, ability to manage competing stakeholder priorities, and ability to communicate across technical and non-technical audiences.
- U.S. citizenship is required.
Preferred Qualifications
- CSPO, PSPO, SAFe POPM, or equivalent certification.
- Experience supporting research collaboration, academic partnerships, or external-stakeholder engagement.
- Familiarity with Agile delivery practices, including Scrum and Kanban.
- Federal government experience or experience in a DevSecOps or platform engineering environment.
- Hands-on experience with AI-assisted development tools such as GitHub Copilot, Claude Code, or Cursor.
Expected Deliverables
- Product vision, prioritized roadmap, and technical specifications traceable from business need through delivery.
- Feasibility and integration assessments developed with engineering and platform architects and informed by business analysts and economists.
- Decision logs, meeting minutes, and supporting process documentation.
Pay and Hours
- Pay is listed as USD 65–80 per hour.
- Expected hours are 40 per week.
- A 401(k) benefit is listed.
Work Location
- The posting specifies an in-person work location.
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