Description:
Onsite (Tucson) Local Candidates
Applies knowledge of design principles, practices and implementation in complex systems and assignments. General responsibilities include team leadership and responsibility for the deliverables of a software development team, participating in design reviews, acceptance of team deliverables by assessing performance against design specification and desired customer
workflows and outcomes. Participates in a self-organizing team culture. Assist in the delivery of customer-centric features by facilitating and providing servant leadership to a technical team.
Responsibilities
• Partners with business and software development team(s) to translate business/customer needs into technological solutions.
• Makes contributions to strategic directions and projects through knowledge of technology and its creative applications.
• Prepares for and participates in Program Increment (PI) planning with their team. Heavily involved in team backlog refinement and prioritization.
• Maintains, builds, and edits team backlog. Based on collaboration with Program Management and System Architect, provides the team with details of what needs to be built. Participates in PO syncs to coordinate cross team dependencies during development execution
• Leveraging agreed-upon acceptance criteria and definition of done, is responsible for formally accepting/approving completion of all features and user stories being delivered by their team on behalf of the program
• Participates in their teams iteration planning. Provides details for backlog items being planned. Prioritize team backlog based on consideration of cross-team dependencies and stakeholder feedback.
• Assists the team to elaborate a feature into smaller and independent user stories to ensure flow of incremental software delivery.
• Assists and influences the team to focus on customer centricity, built-in software quality and holistic system design thinking in addition to technical excellence.
• Participates in and leads cross-functional technical teams (including participation in planning, technical assessments, and retrospectives).
• Actively works with the scrum master and participates in Inspect and Adapt events to facilitate relentless team improvement. Works with System Architects and team to introduce architectural enablers to maintain architectural runway.
• Endorses the speak-up culture in a constructive and professional manner to identify impediments and creative improvement opportunities at all times.
• Presents results of projects both internally and externally (including representation of team at system demos).
• Reviews and critiques presentations for others; presents complex technical data to large and diverse groups.
• Monitors work to ensure quality, and continuously promote Quality First Time.
• Other duties as assigned by management.
Education Requirement: Bachelor's degree or equivalent in a directly related discipline or equivalent combination of education and experience.
Experience Requirement: 8 years / 4 years with MS degree
Knowledge, Skills and Abilities
• Demonstrates systems thinking proficiency, creativity, collaboration with others, and independent thought.
• Ability to understand business requirements and customer needs and translate them into software design.
• Understands and uses expert practices for requirements management, systems design, user
experience development, and usability.
• Develops and uses company design practices as applied to projects.
• Ability to collaborate with a technical team to ensure delivery of a software design that optimizes architecture needs, company needs, business constraints and technological realities.
• Ability to prioritize needed work based on objective evidence and lean design practices.
• Ability to listen to concerns and issues actively before providing a decision or judgment.
• Information Security and Data Privacy fundamentals
EEO Statement Apollo Professional Solutions, Inc. is an equal opportunity employer. We provide equal employment opportunities to all employees and applicants for employment and prohibits discrimination and harassment of any type without regard to race, color, religion, marital status, age, national origin, ancestry, disability status, medical condition, pregnancy, genetic information, protected veteran status, gender, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, or any other status or characteristic protected under federal, state, or local law.
