Technical Product Owner at AVER, LLC in Washington, District of Columbia

Job description

• AVER is a fast-growing SDVOSB that has achieved significant revenue growth over the past 5 plus years with much of our work focused on Data Analytics, Mission Support, IT
• Modernization and Biometrics. AVER is seeking an experienced Technical Product Owner to support the planning, modernization, and delivery of enterprise technology capabilities within a complex federal environment.
• This role sits at the intersection of mission operations, technology, and program delivery and will work closely with government stakeholders and cross-functional technical teams to move initiatives from business need through implementation and ongoing enhancement.
• The Technical Product Owner will provide end-to-end ownership and coordination across product planning, requirements, prioritization, release management, governance, and lifecycle activities.
• The successful candidate will be comfortable working across software development, infrastructure, cybersecurity, architecture, and business teams while translating mission priorities into achievable technology outcomes.
• This is a highly visible, client-facing role requiring strong judgment, communication, analytical skills, and the ability to independently drive multiple priorities in an Agile or hybrid delivery environment.
• Join a collaborative team who values AVER’s mission, focus, and culture of delivering exceptional client service with great people and transformative technology solutions that ensure Government mission success.

Responsibilities

• Develop and maintain product roadmaps aligned with mission objectives, technology priorities, cybersecurity requirements, available resources, and budget.
• Translate operational and stakeholder needs into actionable product requirements, features, user stories, release plans, and measurable outcomes.
• Own and support backlog refinement and feature prioritization using approaches such as value scoring, or comparable prioritization methods.
• Partner with development, cybersecurity, infrastructure, architecture, and business teams to coordinate integrated product delivery.
• Guide initiatives through the product lifecycle from discovery and requirements through development, testing, release, adoption, and continuous improvement.
• Plan incremental releases that deliver measurable value while remaining aligned with enterprise architecture and CIO technology standards.
• Identify and manage cross-product risks, dependencies, resource constraints, technical debt, and delivery tradeoffs.
• Facilitate sprint and release planning activities and maintain visibility into progress, blockers, milestones, and dependencies.
• Analyze product and program data, including KPIs, performance measures, stakeholder feedback, and delivery metrics, to inform prioritization and improvement.
• Develop executive-level briefings, business cases, decision papers, tradeoff analyses, dashboards, and other governance materials.
• Present product status, risks, recommendations, and decision points to government leadership and governance stakeholders.
• Support organizational change and product adoption through stakeholder engagement, communications, training coordination, and implementation planning.
• Maintain appropriate product and program documentation to support federal compliance, governance, auditability, and operational continuity.

Requirements

• Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Information Systems, Business Administration, Management, or a related discipline.
• 7-10+ years of relevant experience supporting business analysis, technical analysis, product ownership, product management, or technology program delivery.
• Demonstrated experience leading technology capabilities through multiple releases and lifecycle stages, including roadmap planning, requirements, prioritization, delivery, and implementation.
• Experience owning or significantly contributing to product roadmaps and backlogs within an Agile or hybrid SDLC environment.
• Ability to translate business and mission requirements into technical priorities and executable delivery plans.
• Experience coordinating cross-functional teams that include software development, infrastructure, cybersecurity, architecture, and business stakeholders.
• Demonstrated ability to manage complex dependencies, schedules, risks, resources, and competing priorities across integrated enterprise systems.
• Experience making or supporting product decisions that balance mission value, cybersecurity, technical debt, architecture, cost, and delivery constraints.
• Strong understanding of Agile product delivery, including backlog refinement, sprint planning, iterative development, and incremental releases.
• Experience developing and presenting decision-ready information to executive leadership, governance boards, or senior government stakeholders.
• Working knowledge of enterprise architecture concepts, system integrations, and the impact technical constraints can have on product strategy and delivery.
• Experience using performance metrics, KPIs, analytics, and stakeholder/user feedback to evaluate outcomes and drive continuous improvement.
• Experience supporting federal government or other highly regulated environments requiring strong documentation, compliance, and governance practices.
• Ability to obtain and maintain government clearance (Public Trust)
• This role supports a government agency which requires U.S. citizenship
• Enterprise IT modernization and complex digital transformation initiatives.
• Developing multi-year product strategies and technology roadmaps.
• Managing technical debt alongside new functionality and mission requirements.
• Product prioritization frameworks such as WSJF, MoSCoW, and value-based scoring.
• Business cases, executive decision briefs, tradeoff analyses, governance documentation, and performance dashboards.
• Change management, stakeholder adoption, communications, and training associated with enterprise technology releases.
• Federal organizations, enterprise architecture governance, cybersecurity requirements, or mission-critical technology environments.

Skills

Required

• Product ownership
• Product management
• Business analysis
• Technical analysis
• Agile / hybrid SDLC
• Backlog refinement
• Sprint planning
• Release management
• Roadmap planning
• Requirements translation
• Prioritization (value scoring)
• Cross-functional coordination

Preferred

• Enterprise IT modernization
• Digital transformation
• Multi-year product strategy
• Technical debt management
• WSJF, MoSCoW, value-based scoring
• Business cases and decision briefs
• Change management
• Stakeholder adoption