Lead Technical Product Owner

Title: Lead Technical Product Owner 101337

Location: 3 days a week (Mon, Tues, Wed) onsite Chicago, IL (near west loop); must also be prepared for a full time in office role if a rto is in effect (if not local must be open to relocating on own dime and must be onsite 2 weeks from offer day 1 of contract)

Type: Contract

Pay: $78-81.77/hr on w2-w2 only

Hours: 8-5 M-F (40 hour work week)

Length: 12 months-large possibility to extend

Screenings: full panel drug and background once hired

IV process: 1 or 2 rounds

+optional benefits, long term contract with ability to extend or convert to full time

Must Haves:

• minimum 10+ years of software engineering and/or product ownership experience
• minimum 6+ years as a Product Owner in an Agile environment
• Prior hands-on software development experience (developer transitioned into Product Owner role preferred)
• Strong technical knowledge of AWS and API/Web Services
• Experience translating business requirements into technical solutions
• Expertise in product backlog management, change requests, and stakeholder communication
• Experience working closely with engineering, QA, and business teams throughout the SDLC
• Proficiency with UAT, defect resolution, and software problem management
• Strong analytical, critical thinking, and decision-making skills
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills

Preferred Skills

• Agile/Scrum certification
• Jira, Azure DevOps, and/or ServiceNow experience
• Experience supporting software product integrations and implementations
• Background in enterprise software products and customer-facing support environments

Education & Experience Required:

• min Bachelor’s degree with 10 years exp in software engineering/ product owner.
• min 6+ years in a Lead Product owner role

Required Technical Skills

• Candidate needs to be have technical experience in the past, a developer transitioned into PO role. This is a technical product owner role and is this part is important.
• AWS and API webservices knowledge is a must have.
• Business Analysis Knowledge of business analysis and the set of tasks, techniques and tools required to identify business needs; ability to recommend solutions that deliver value to stakeholders.
• Level Working Knowledge: Analyzes the value of a business and its functions through the value estimation of assets. Applies the prerequisites to a project before starting the business analysis process. Collaborates with stakeholders, development teams, testing teams, etc., to deliver business solutions. Documents the business case to justify the requirements of time and resources of a project. Utilizes diverse analysis tools and methodologies to group different business activities based on shared characteristics or similarities.
• Decision Making and Critical Thinking: Knowledge of the decision-making process and associated tools and techniques; ability to accurately analyze situations and reach productive decisions based on informed judgment.
• Level Extensive Experience: Differentiates assumptions, perspectives, and historical frameworks. Evaluates past decisions for insights to improve decision-making process. Assesses and validates decision options and points and predicts their potential impact. Advises others in analyzing and synthesizing relevant data and assessing alternatives. Uses effective decision-making approaches such as consultative, command, or consensus. Ensures that assumptions and received wisdom are objectively analyzed in decisions.
• Software Change Request Management: Knowledge of software change request management; ability to manage software product change requests from customers, prospective customers, vendors, and internal staff.
• Level Extensive Experience:
• • Describes methods for estimating costs for request fulfillment.
• • Defines responses for non-standard or unsupported change requests.
• • Contributes to the design and development of request process flow and templates.
• • Clarifies description, components affected, need, cost estimate, risk, resources, status.
• • Manages all aspects of the change request process.

• • Researches new tools and techniques for monitoring product efficacy.

• Software Engineering: Knowledge of software engineering; ability to deliver new or enhanced fee-based software products.

Level Working Knowledge:

• Identifies considerations for product integration with multiple…