Who Are We: Oasys is home to a dedicated team of technologists, consultants, engineers, and subject matter experts who provide world-class consulting and advisory services to our clients. We are rapidly growing and looking for talented individuals to add to our team. We commit to providing our people with the necessary resources to continue learning and maintain a healthy work-life balance. We also cultivate a collaborative and social atmosphere and foster a merit-based culture in which people receive recognition for their performance. Oasys was recognized on Inc. Magazine’s list of the 5000 fastest-growing companies for five consecutive years.

Position Summary:

Oasys is currently seeking an experienced Product Owner to take charge of the search capabilities strategy and roadmap. You will maintain and prioritize feature backlogs and outline feature scope, acceptance criteria, and metrics. Additionally, you will work alongside internal groups and customers to gain insight into their enhancement requests, educate them on new features, and assist them with implementation decisions. If you have extensive experience and interest in database management systems and their deployment in a cloud infrastructure, this position is perfect for you.

Primary Responsibilities:

• Work with other POs and leadership to help shape the product vision and enumerate high-level priorities.
• Prepare for and participate in Sprint Planning
• Consistently refine and prepare program backlog. Build, edit, prioritize, and maintain the team backlog.
• Progressively elaborate requirements and suggestions from stakeholders and the team
• Work with an Agile Scrum team to develop and scrub stories to ensure accurate story estimates and sequencing.
• Collaborate with the team to detail story acceptance criteria and examples in the form of acceptance tests.
• Communicate story details and priorities and ensure the team aligns and agrees on a final iteration plan.
• Validate that stories meet acceptance criteria and the team’s Definition of Done when the team is ready for story review.
• Be available to answer the team’s questions to clarify current sprint work.
• Collaborate with the team and any other stakeholders in the Sprint Demo and participate in the Sprint Retrospective
• Coordinate dependencies with other POs and work across teams to define and implement improvement stories that will increase the velocity and quality of the program.
• Work with users and stakeholders to collect feedback to incorporate into the backlog.
• Communicate regularly with the team, stakeholders, and users.
• Act as liaison between stakeholders and the team
• Evaluate product progress and quality.
• All other duties as assigned by management.

Skills and Qualifications:

• Requires a Bachelor’s degree and 5 years of prior relevant, additional experience in lieu of a degree
• Minimum of five (5) years of experience
• Prior Agile and Scrum experience
• Demonstrate the ability to understand the scope of upcoming work and collaborate with the Technical Lead to assist with decision-making and sequencing of the critical technological infrastructures that will host the new business functionality.
• Ability to translate requirements, feedback, and requests into Epics and Stories
• Story writing experience
• Capacity to work well in groups and the ability to lead
• Experience using Agile tracking tools, preferably Jira and Confluence
• Passion and a continuous-improvement mindset
• Self-motivated
• Problem-solving skills
• Demonstrated skills and experience in presenting analytical results, both verbally and in writing required.
• Must be proficient with common productivity software, including Microsoft Office (Word, Excel, PowerPoint, SharePoint, Visio, and Outlook).
• Must have excellent verbal and written communication skills and be highly organized with attention to detail. Must be comfortable and capable of interacting with Government, contractor, and executive leadership.

Preferred Qualifications:

• Scrum Alliance Certified Scrum Product Owner (CSPO) or equivalent PO certification
• Strong knowledge of DevOps tools and processes
• Experience in utilizing diverse metrics to drive team and product improvement
• Additional technical knowledge is welcome:
• Amazon Web Services. Java Eclipse/Git/Jenkins Relational Databases Web service development
• Previous management consulting experience.
• Experience with a federal agency as a contractor or federal employee;

Security Clearance Requirements:

• Must be a U.S. Citizen
• Must have a Public Trust

Work Location:

• Remote - Washington, DC - hybrid

Oasys is committed to hiring and retaining a diverse workforce.  We are proud to be an Equal Opportunity/Affirmative Action Employer, making decisions without regard to race, color, religion, creed, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, marital status, national origin, age, veteran status, disability, or any other protected class.  U.S. Citizenship is required for most positions.