PIR Enterprise Platform Product Owner

Apogee is seeking a PIR Enterprise Platform Product Owner to support the mission of the National Air and Space Intelligence Center (NASIC) at Wright Patterson AFB in Dayton, OH. In this senior-level position, you'll provide product ownership for GSPO (O&M), focusing on the PIR Enterprise Platform and associated applications.

Responsibilities

• You'll serve as the primary interface between government sponsors, users, and technical development teams, managing the product backlog and ensuring the delivery of mission-relevant capabilities that directly support critical intelligence operations. Contingent Upon Contract Award Responsibilities Maintain, groom, and prioritize product backlogs for the PIR Enterprise Platform and associated applications
• Decompose roadmap objectives into refined user stories with clear acceptance criteria
• Ensure the backlog consistently contains at least two sprints' worth of actionable, prioritized work
• Act as primary interface between sponsors, users, functional leads, and development teams
• Attend Agile ceremonies (planning, stand-ups, reviews, retrospectives) and communicate user feedback
• Facilitate user demos after deployment of key features and triage critical user-submitted bug and enhancement requests
• Ensure product backlogs for PIR Enterprise Platform and its associated applications are maintained, groomed, and prioritized
• Decompose high-level program roadmap objectives into refined user stories with clear acceptance criteria
• Ensure the backlog contains at least two sprints worth of actionable, prioritized work at all times
• Maintain backlog hygiene and remove outdated or irrelevant items
• Continuously refine and update user stories based on evolving requirements and stakeholder feedback
• Prioritize backlog items based on mission value, user needs, technical dependencies, and strategic objectives
• Act as the primary interface between government sponsors, operational users, functional leads, and technical development teams
• Reconcile competing user requests to propose a unified platform vision for Government approval
• Balance diverse stakeholder priorities and negotiate trade-offs between competing needs
• Translate operational requirements into actionable technical requirements for development teams
• Ensure all stakeholder perspectives are considered in product planning and prioritization decisions
• Build consensus among stakeholders with different priorities and perspectives

Attend stakeholder synchronization meetings, as required

• Coordinate regular engagement with user communities to gather requirements and feedback
• Facilitate user demos within two weeks after deployment of key features, provided the development environment and software releases are stable and available
• Plan and schedule user demonstrations in coordination with development teams
• Prepare demonstration scripts and materials highlighting new capabilities
• Gather user feedback during demonstrations and document enhancement requests
• Ensure users understand new features and how to leverage them effectively
• Attend Agile ceremonies (sprint planning, daily stand-ups, sprint reviews, and retrospectives)
• Communicate user feedback to answer developer's technical questions during Agile ceremonies
• Provide product vision and direction during sprint planning sessions
• Clarify requirements and acceptance criteria during development
• Review completed work during sprint reviews and provide acceptance decisions

Participate in retrospectives to identify process improvements

• Respond to and triage critical, user-submitted bug/enhancement requests within 24 hours in the government designated JIRA with a preliminary priority score
• Evaluate urgency, mission impact, and severity of user-reported issues
• Assign preliminary priority scores based on operational impact
• Coordinate with development teams on resolution timelines

Track issues through resolution and verify user satisfaction

• Translate operational, security, and cloud optimization needs into technical backlogs
• Understand operational workflows and identify opportunities for improvement
• Capture security requirements and ensure they are appropriately prioritized
• Identify cloud optimization opportunities to improve performance and reduce costs

Requirements

Citizenship: Must be a US citizen

• Eligible for TS/SCI; able to obtain and maintain required clearances.
• Agile certification (e.g., Scrum Master or Product Owner) preferred but not required.
• Master’s degree in Information Systems, Computer Science, Engineering, Business, or a related field.
• Minimum of 10 years of experience in product management, project management, or systems integration roles.
• An additional 8 years of relevant experience may be substituted for the Master’s degree; or 4 additional years plus a Bachelor’s degree.
• Understanding of cloud-native architectures, microservices, containerization, and DevSecOps pipelines.
• Strong backlog management, prioritization, and stakeholder engagement skills.
• Ability to translate operational needs into well-formed user stories.

Preferred

• Experience with Agile methodologies and tools (e.g., JIRA, Confluence).

Location:Wright Patterson AFB Dayton, OH On-site/Hybrid/Remote: On-site Travel: Occasional