Principal Product Owner - (Onsite, Phoenix, AZ)

Bounteous is a premier end-to-end digital transformation consultancy dedicated to partnering with ambitious brands to create digital solutions for today’s complex challenges and tomorrow’s opportunities. With uncompromising standards for technical and domain expertise, we deliver innovative and strategic solutions in Strategy, Analytics, Digital Engineering, Cloud, Data & AI, Experience Design, and Marketing.

Our Co-Innovation methodology is a unique engagement model designed to align interests and accelerate value creation. Our clients worldwide benefit from the skills and expertise of over 4,000+ expert team members across the Americas, APAC, and EMEA. By partnering with leading technology providers, we craft transformative digital experiences that enhance customer engagement and drive business success.

We are seeking a highly experienced and technically proficient Principal Product Owner to lead the development of our Observability and Digital Twin solutions. This role is crucial for creating products that provide deep, real-time insights into the health and performance of our systems. You will be responsible for defining the product vision, strategy, and roadmap for a suite of services that capture, analyze, and alert on critical data, transforming raw logs and metrics into a cohesive "digital twin" application. The ideal candidate will have a technical background & a passion for complex systems. The role requires collaborating with senior stakeholders and conducting workshops to gather the requirements and translate them into user stories.

Information Security Responsibilities

• Promote and enforce awareness of key information security practices, including acceptable use of information assets, malware protection, and password security protocols
• Identify, assess, and report security risks, focusing on how these risks impact the confidentiality, integrity, and availability of information assets
• Understand and evaluate how data is stored, processed, or transmitted, ensuring compliance with data privacy and protection standards (GDPR, CCPA, etc.)
• Ensure data protection measures are integrated throughout the information lifecycle to safeguard sensitive information

Key Responsibilities:

• Product Strategy & Roadmap: Define and execute the product vision and roadmap for observability, logging, and monitoring products, with a specific focus on building a Digital Twin Application.
• Requirements Gathering: Collaborate with engineering, operations, and business stakeholders.
• Observability & Digital Twin Design: Lead the design and development of platforms that integrate logs, metrics, traces, and events to create a unified, real-time model of our systems.
• Backlog Management: Manage and prioritize the product backlog (epics, user stories) for development teams, ensuring they are aligned with the product vision and business goals.
• Stakeholder Communication: Act as the primary liaison between technical teams and business leadership, translating complex observability concepts into business value and vice-versa.
• Market & Technology Awareness: Stay current with industry trends in Observability, Digital Twins, AI/ML for anomaly detection, and related technologies to inform product direction.

Qualifications:

• 10+ years of experience as a Product Owner or BSA or a similar role in a software development environment.
• Demonstrated experience in a technical product role
• Preferred Experience with Digital Twin concepts or Observability projects is highly desirable.

Domain Knowledge:

• Deep understanding of software development lifecycles (SDLC), deployment processes, and common failure modes in complex systems.

Methodologies:

• Experience with Agile/Scrum development methodologies.

Education:

• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or a related field. Master's degree or relevant technical certifications preferred.

Skills:

• Exceptional Communication: Ability to articulate complex technical concepts to both engineering teams and executive stakeholders.
• Problem-Solving: Strong analytical skills with a focus on identifying root causes of system anomalies and operational issues.
• Strategic Thinking: Ability to translate technical capabilities into strategic business outcomes, such as reduced downtime and improved customer trust.
• Stakeholder Management: Proven ability to influence and collaborate effectively across all levels of an organization.
• Detail-Oriented: Meticulous attention to detail, especially concerning the accuracy of logs, metrics, and alerts.
• Proactive & Self-Starter: Ability to work independently and drive initiatives from conception to completion.

$130,000 - $150,000 a year

Individual pay is determined by many factors, including experience, relevant education or training, and organizational needs. The mid-range to maximum of the salary range is generally reserved for individuals who are highly experienced in the role.

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