Scaled Agile Framework (SAFe) Product Owner

Our client is seeking a Scaled Agile Framework (SAFe) Product Owner for a long-term contract opportunity. As a Scaled Agile Framework (SAFe) Product Owner, you will play a crucial role in ensuring the successful delivery of our products and services, following the values, principles, and success patterns. You will be a member of with a cross-functional team and work with Product Management, Architecture, and other stakeholders to help define, prioritize, and validate the solution under development. DUTIES:Product Ownership: Act as the primary voice of the customer and point of contact for the product, responsible for defining, prioritizing, and maintaining the product backlog. Vision and Strategy: Develop and communicate a clear product vision and strategy, ensuring alignment with business goals and customer needs. Prioritization: Prioritize features and user stories based on business value, customer feedback, and technical feasibility, ensuring the team works on high-priority items. Requirements Gathering: Elicit and document product requirements, user stories, and acceptance criteria to provide a clear understanding for development teams. Stakeholder Engagement: Collaborate with stakeholders, including business leaders, customers, and development teams, to ensure everyone is aligned with the product vision. Agile Framework: Implement and champion the principles of the Scaled Agile Framework (SAFe), ensuring agile methodologies are followed. Roadmap Development: Contribute to a product roadmap that outlines the delivery schedule and milestones. Release Planning: Participate in release planning, including prioritization of features, sprint planning, and coordination of cross-team dependencies. Metrics and Analysis: Define and track key performance indicators (KPIs) to measure the success of the product and identify areas for improvement. Product Delivery: Work closely with development teams to ensure the delivery of high-quality products on time. REQUIRMENTS:8+ years as an agile product owner and a bachelor’s degree and equivalent combination of related work experience and schooling in lieu of degree. or Advanced degree and 5+ years related work experience. Required: SAFe 6.0 Product Owner/Product Manager Certification Proven experience as a Product Owner or similar role in an agile environment Demonstrated understanding of agile methodologies and the SAFe framework Ability to prioritize and make data-driven decisions Strong problem-solving and analytical skills Experience with Jira Software, Confluence, FigJam, Jira Align, AgilityHealth Preferred: Experience working with products or organizations supporting critical data and analytics, in areas such as enterprise data catalogs, data quality analytics and quality control design, data governance, data management, and/or data literacy. Kavaliro provides Equal Employment Opportunities to all employees and applicants. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, age, sex, national origin, disability status, genetics, protected veteran status, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, or any other characteristic protected by federal, state, or local laws. Kavaliro is committed to the full inclusion of all qualified individuals. In keeping with our commitment, Kavaliro will take steps to assure that people with disabilities are provided reasonable accommodations. Accordingly, if reasonable accommodation is required to fully participate in the job application or interview process, to perform the essential functions of the position, and/or to receive all other benefits and privileges of employment, please respond to this posting to connect with a company representative.