Job Summary:
Sure Secure Solutions is is seeking a Product Manager to work in a fast-paced Agile environment that ensures the accurate and timely design, development, and deployment of products and services that allows the large collection of NASA Earth science data to be more discoverable and usable by the end user community. Transformation is an Agile Release Train in which products and services are built as part of the NASA’s Earth Observing System Data Information System (EOSDIS) program, which provides end-to-end capabilities for managing NASA’s Earth science data from various sources – satellites, aircraft, field measurements, and other programs. Transformation services include Harmony, OPeNDAP, Earthdata GIS (EGIS) and Global Imagery Browse Services (GIBS). The Transformation Train provides a framework for coordinated service development across NASA Distributed Active Archive Centers (DAACs).
As a member of the Raytheon EED-3 team you will ensure adherence to operational agreements and polices, compliance to program and NASA standards and requirements, leveraging of industry best practices for automation and scalability of assets, and implementation of issue detection and alerts.
Roles and Responsibilities:
- Defining and supporting the building of desirable, feasible, viable, and sustainable cloud-based products that meet customer needs over time.
- Collaborating with a wide range of people to identify and define customer needs for cloud platform usage.
- Managing expectations and requests from both internal and external stakeholders.
- Supporting the Agile Release Train (ART) in delivering value through the Program Kanban and Continuous Delivery Pipeline.
- Defining Releases and Program Increments (PI) priorities, as well as participating in PI planning.
- Managing and prioritizing the ART feature backlog, as well as ensuring product completeness.
- Developing and communicating the product vision and roadmap, for use towards coordinating the work of multiple Product Managers, ARTs, and Suppliers.
Required Education and Experience:
- Bachelor’s degree and at least 10 years of experience building software applications for enterprise scale systems.
- At least 4 years of people management, including relationship building with key stakeholders, communicating technical findings with non-technical stakeholders, and working with subcontractor team members, in agile development environments.
- Experience working with geospatial data and tools, especially those related to this program (ArcGIS, Common Metadata Repository, Harmony and OPeNDAP).
- Ability to ensure that developed products are moving in the right direction, in step with the product vision, goals, and objectives.
- Ability to align development efforts to meet end-user needs and customer’s goals.
- Experience using metrics and data to drive a development team to a desired goal.
- Excellent verbal and written communication skills, with experience creating RACI charts.
Desired/Preferred Skills:
- Experience using Scaled Agile Framework (SAFe), particularly as a Product Owner or Product Manager.
- Knowledge of geospatial data transformation and visualization, including subsetting, reprojection and file reformatting.
- Experience engaging with open-source communities, such as pangeo.
- Experience with conflict management between two or more parties.
Sure Secure Solutions is an Equal Opportunity/Affirmative Action Employer, including Vets and Disabled. Employment contingent upon successful completion of a background investigation.
At Sure Secure Solutions, we have an enjoyable working environment, offering competitive benefit packages and surrounded with professionals who have the subject matter expertise to develop innovative, cutting-edge business solutions in an ever-evolving technology landscape. The benefits include Dental Insurance, Vision Insurance, Life insurance, Long and short-term disability, Paid time off, 401(k) Retirement plan. More specific information on benefits eligibility will be provided as part of the interview process.
This is a full-time Remote Role (Quarterly travel for a few days may be required)* A U.S. citizenship is required. All candidates must be able to pass a National Agency Clearance with Inquiries.