Technical Product Owner

Career Opportunity

GeoSpectrum Technologies Inc. is growing and has a new career opportunity for an experienced Technical Product Owner who is passionate about software product development that meets our customers' needs.

As a Technical Product Owner, you are responsible for bridging the gap between business objectives and technical execution for embedded systems, while ensuring our products meet customer needs and align with the product roadmap. You’ll collaborate closely with key stakeholders, product management, and the development team. You will distill product requirements and bug reports into stories in a prioritized backlog for execution by development teams.

Responsibilities

• Product Ownership and communication
  • Build a comprehensive understanding of the current product and its product roadmap.
  • Work with cross-functional teams and various stakeholders, including analytics, design/user experience, hardware engineering, and sonar operations experts to inform the product features and prioritization.
• Technical Understanding
  • Utilize a strong understanding of embedded systems, including hardware-software interaction, real-time operating systems, data flows and system architecture, to inform product decisions.
• Backlog Management
  • Create, maintain, and prioritize the product backlog to ensure your team is always working on the highest priority tasks, balancing the development of new features, iterations, bug fixes, and other internal tasks.
  • Create clear, fully scoped stories and train the development team on best practices for story definition and pointing.
  • Ensure that the backlog is visible, transparent, and understood by the development team.
• Task Definition
  • Develop detailed user stories, acceptance criteria, and product requirements.
  • Collaborate with the development team to refine and clarify requirements.
• Sprint Planning and Review
  • Participate in sprint planning meetings to help the team understand the priorities and scope of work.
  • Participate in sprint reviews, reminding all parties of the requirements being implemented and accepting stakeholder feedback to inform sprint planning.
• Applied Agile Methodology
  • Mentor teams on Agile values, principles, practices, and tools.
  • Support continuous improvement of GeoSpectrum’s Agile processes.
• Additional Responsibilities
  • Participate in organizational occupational health and safety education, prevention, promotion, and reporting.
  • Proactively participate in performance reviews, professional development and required company training.

Qualifications

• A degree/diploma in Computer Science, Information Technology, Computer Engineering, Software Engineering or a related field.
• Experience with Agile methodologies, including SCRUM and are a Certified Scrum Product Owner (CSPO) or SAFe Product Owner/Product Manager (POPM).
• At least 5 years of experience building systems as a Product Owner and/or Software Developer in an engineering environment.
• Proficient in Agile project management tools such as JIRA and/or Confluence.
• Strong technical background in embedded systems, including knowledge of microcontrollers, firmware, and hardware-software integration.
• Preferred working in Linux / Unix operating systems.
• Preferred experience in C or C++.
• Preferred experience with applied algorithm development, physics, and/or real-time processes.

Security Requirements

• Candidates must be able to demonstrate they are eligible to apply for and maintain the Canadian Controlled Goods and Canadian Government Security Clearances. Specifically, candidates may be asked to show proof of living in Canada for the past five consecutive years and provide a criminal record check.

Explore our Culture and Benefits

At GeoSpectrum, we take pride in fostering a workplace that is based on professional relationships, innovation, and continuous improvement. Our employees work together in a collaborative, cross-functional approach. Enjoy having fun at work? Our social community is next to none! Our leadership team encourages our people to contribute their ideas, insights, and feedback for innovation, continuous improvement, quality management, and workplace safety.

• Competitive salary based on experience
• Work-life balance with core hours
• Paid Time Off
• Employee-Family Assistance Program
• Group Plan Benefits
• Virtual Healthcare
• RRSP matching
• Corporate Discounts and perks
• Career development opportunities
• Monthly social activities
• Professional Development and training
• Free on-site parking

GeoSpectrum is committed to employment equity and building a diverse workforce where every employee can bring their best self to work. GeoSpectrum encourages applicants from all qualified individuals, including underrepresented individuals who identify as African Nova Scotian, racially visible, Aboriginal persons, LGBTQIA2S+, persons with disabilities, and women. GeoSpectrum will accommodate applicants' disability-related needs, up to the point of undue hardship, throughout all stages of the recruitment and selection process. If you are a member of one of an equity group, we encourage you to self-identify on either your application form, covering letter, or resume.

Apply Today

While we sincerely thank all applicants for taking the time to apply, however only those chosen for an interview will be contacted.

If you require a disability-related accommodation in order to participate in the recruitment process, please contact the recruitment team by email at jobs@geospectrum.ca.