Daily Activities Include:
Gathering and analyzing technical specifications
Managing product backlog, user stories and cross-product dependencies
Meeting with customers to understand their use of the Cloud Platform and translating these requirements to product use cases and scenarios
Engaging with customers and stakeholders throughout the development lifecycle
Understanding long-term product vision and roadmap, translating that into User Stories for the team
Identify, define, analyze, prioritize and refine the requirements, and communicate those requirements to the development team.
Participating in agile activities including product demonstrations, retrospectives, backlog grooming and sprint planning
Desired Skills and Experience
Experience Required:
1+ years' experience in a similar/complementary role
Experience managing highly visible projects with Agile project management principles and practices.
Ability to manage multiple projects and numerous customers and stakeholders with various requirements
Ability to prioritize work, clarify requirements, and drive user stories to acceptance throughout the Agile software development lifecycle.
Strong interpersonal and communication skills, and the ability to work well in a team environment
Excellent presentation skills
Strong analytical and problem solving skills
The ability to establish credibility and influence within the internal organization
Degree in Computer Science, engineering/related field or equivalent experience
Experience with:
Cloud technology – AWS EC2, IAM, SQS, SNS, RDS or equivalent OpenStack, Google Cloud or Azure technologies
RESTful Microservices
NoSQL – Cassandra, AWS DynamoDB, MongoDB
Cloud architecture – loosely coupled systems, fault-tolerance, HA, scalability
Continuous Delivery
INVEST method of developing user stories
Additional Desirable Skills and Experience:
Agile Certification
Proven track record delivering a platform solution in a complex environment
Open source software management experience
Demonstrated negotiation and influencing skills