Technical Feature Owner Jobs

Overview

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At Virgin Pulse we value and celebrate diversity and we are committed to creating an inclusive environment for all employees. We believe in creating teams made up of individuals with various backgrounds, experiences, and perspectives. Why? Because diversity inspires innovation, collaboration, and challenges us to produce better solutions. But more than this, diversity is our strength, and a catalyst in our ability to #changelivesforgood.

Responsibilities

Who are you ?

As a Technical Feature Owner with Virgin Pulse, you love working on a fast-paced data & reporting pipeline. As a leader of the Data Platform Engineering team, you will lead a team to create data pipelines that feed powerful ML & AI models, BI visualizations, and world class self-service reporting to empower Virgin Pulse leaders, stakeholders, and customers to make the most valuable decisions possible.

Unlike a traditional Product Owner, you have some experience in engineering or technical background. You are not afraid to dig into technical stories or problems to understand how things work, in order to provide more context and detail to the engineers on your team. You love agile and believe in the systematic, methodical approach to getting work done. You will bring your experience, fresh ideas, and perspectives to the table to help develop a top-notch software development organization.

You know what “good” looks like, and how to convey that to a team of engineers. People say you are a good communicator who is nice to work with. When people ask you to do something, they are 100% certain you will do it with quality, passion, and timeliness.

In addition to the above you possess a number of desirable traits including:

• You are enthusiastic about working in a team, and have great people skills
• A passion for learning technologies and applying them to the right projects will make you successful in this position.
• You are a good communicator (written and verbal)
• You have outstanding problem solving and analytical skills

In a Typical Week You May

• Define the team’s vision, roadmap and growth opportunities
• Provide backlog management, iteration planning, and elaboration of the user stories
• Provide vision and direction to the Agile development team and stakeholders
• Take the lead of scrum teams as the Product Owner
• Provide an active role in successful team completion of Sprint Goals
• Lead planning for product releases and set expectations for new functionality
• Ensure that the team always has an adequate amount of prior prepared tasks
• Keep abreast with Agile/Scrum best practices and new trends
• Assess value, develop cases, and prioritize stories, epics and themes to ensure work focuses on those with maximum value that are aligned with product strategy
• Coordinate releases with other relevant teams as required (Finance, Engineering, etc)
• Work closely with DSR Management to prioritize projects by to business value or ROI
• Have fun doing all of the above

You’ll be rewarded and recognized for your performance in an environment that will challenge you and give you clear direction on what it takes to succeed in your role as well as provide development for other roles you may be interested in.

Qualifications

What you bring to the Virgin Pulse team:

In Order To Represent The Best Of What We Have To Offer You Come To Us With a Multitude Of Positive Attributes Including

• Sharp analytical and problem-solving skills
• 2-5 years’ experience as a Product Owner or Business Analyst role
• Appreciating and advocating use of the Oxford Comma
• Excellent verbal and written communication skills
• Outstanding communication, presentation, and leadership skills
• Enjoy learning about new technologies and how they can be practically applied
• Creative thinker with a vision
• Background in engineering or software development
• Attention to detail
• Excellent organizational and time management skills
• Experience working closely with data or data modeling
• In-depth knowledge of Agile process and principles

Our technology

Our next generation Data Pipeline is using an exciting mixture of large scale, highly available, public-facing systems built on serverless infrastructure. This Data Pipeline ensures scalable, secure, private, and high-performance access to any data from our application, operational tools, or any other data generated within the organization.

Our Data Pipeline feeds our Data Lake and Data Warehouse; both of which use Amazon Web Services extensively for stability and high availability. Our Data Lake provides authenticated, secure access to any available data in our organization. Our Data Warehouse provides additional structure and value to our data, which can be readily used for training machine learning algorithms, any internal or external reporting, and informing our company’s product roadmap.

We focus on building and delivering smaller, agile releases to our environments (Development, QA, Staging, Production), with integrated unit tests and code coverage analysis to reduce the risk taken with only a few large releases/product updates.

Why work at Virgin Pulse?

We believe a career should provide competitive pay and benefits, a collaborative and supportive culture and cutting-edge technology and services. Virgin Pulse is an equal opportunity organization and is committed to diversity, inclusion, equity and social justice. To that end, we make a particular effort to recruit candidates from minoritized backgrounds to apply for open positions.

In compliance with all states and cities that require transparency of pay, the base compensation for this position ranges up to $90,000 annually. Note that salary may vary based on location, skills, and experience. This position is eligible for [10%] target bonus/variable compensation as well as health, dental, vision, mental health and other benefits.