Technical Project Engineer

About Peraton

Peraton is a next-generation national security company that drives missions of consequence spanning the globe and extending to the farthest reaches of the galaxy. As the world's leading mission capability integrator and transformative enterprise IT provider, we deliver trusted, highly differentiated solutions and technologies to protect our nation and allies. Peraton operates at the critical nexus between traditional and nontraditional threats across all domains: land, sea, space, air, and cyberspace. The company serves as a valued partner to essential government agencies and supports every branch of the U.S. armed forces. Each day, our employees do the can't be done by solving the most daunting challenges facing our customers. Visit peraton.com to learn how we're keeping people around the world safe and secure.

Responsibilities

Peraton is looking for a Technical Project Engineer to support our collaborations with the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS). The ideal candidate will be passionate about eliciting, shaping, and communicating the product vision, and understand that products are built collaboratively with end-users, stakeholders, and development teams to understand and fulfill the needs of the users. The Product Owner is a driven leader, relationship builder, and knows how to set, monitor, and measure progress towards product goals using Agile tools and methods. They can understand and communicate the needs of the customers and are flexible to the needs of the customer and team. The Product Owner has a passion for working on important problems that have an impact on millions of users.

What you'll do:

• Collaborates with customers, end-users, and stakeholders to understand and anticipate their needs and translate needs into product requirements.
• Define the product vision and create a road map based on this vision.
• Manages the product backlog and prioritizes the work based on changing requirements/objectives/goals and ensures work aligns with the product strategy.
• Oversees all stages of product development including design, development, and deployment.
• Works with the team and customer to create/define/refine user stories based on goals and objectives and ensure they are clearly understood.
• Work with scrum master to mitigate impediments to achieving sprint/release goals.
• Monitors and evaluates product progress and communicates information to stakeholders and customers.
• Serves as a liaison with the product team, customer, and stakeholders to deliver information/updates.
• Works with Agile Coaches and others within the team to grow within the role.
• Has a desire to learn, flexible, delivery-oriented with abilities to empower the development team.
• Strong communication skills
• Ability to build strong interpersonal relationships with the business delivery teams, leadership, senior management and internal/external stakeholders.
• Demonstrates critical thinking, analysis capability, strong analytical, problem solving, and planning skills.
• Excellent technical writing skills, presentation, and delivery skills
• Ability to multi-task in a fast-paced environment
  
  

Qualifications

Basic Qualifications:

• Minimum of 12 years with BS/BA; Minimum of 10 years with MS/MA; Minimum of 7 years with Ph.D.
• Experience with Atlassian product suite including Confluence and Jira.
• Participates and facilitates agile ceremonies.
• Experience to have a solid understanding of the product lifecycle
• Basic understanding of software development practices
• US Citizenship required
  
  

Preferred Qualifications:

• Scaled Agile Framework (SAFe) knowledge is desirable.
• Federal work experience preferred.
  
  

Target Salary Range

$146,000 - $234,000. This represents the typical salary range for this position based on experience and other factors.

SCA / Union / Intern Rate or Range

EEO

An Equal Opportunity Employer including Disability/Veteran.

Our Values

Benefits

At Peraton, our benefits are designed to help keep you at your best beyond the work you do with us daily. We're fully committed to the growth of our employees. From fully comprehensive medical plans to tuition reimbursement, tuition assistance, and fertility treatment, we are there to support you all the way.

• Paid Time-Off and Holidays
• Retirement
• Life & Disability Insurance
• Career Development
• Tuition Assistance and Student Loan Financing
• Paid Parental Leave
• Additional Benefits
• Medical, Dental, & Vision Care