Agile Software Development Product Owner

Lockheed Martin's Strata program is seeking a Geospatial Applications Product Owner to provide product leadership for OpenStreetMap (OSM) and other associated geospatial visualization services. In this role you will serve as the primary point of contact for the government customer, delivering stakeholder oversight, technical guidance, and work-prioritization recommendations. You will translate mission-level objectives into a clear product roadmap, align development backlogs with customer priorities, and coordinate with cross-functional Agile (Scrum/SAFe) teams to ensure secure, high-performance geospatial solutions across multiple customer environments. The position demands strong government-customer engagement, the ability to brief senior leadership on technical and non-technical matters, and a deep awareness of OSM and geospatial technologies., Government Liaison & Stakeholder Oversight: Serve as the primary point of contact for the government customer; lead briefings, status meetings, and stakeholder TEMs

• Technical Guidance & Architecture Review: Evaluate design proposals and provide expert advice to development and DevSecOps teams to ensure solutions meet technical, performance, and compliance standards.
• Work-Prioritization & Backlog Alignment: Assess mission impact, risk, and resource constraints; recommend backlog prioritization and release sequencing to align development work with customer priorities.
• Product Roadmap Stewardship: Maintain a high-level roadmap for OSM and related geospatial visualization services, ensuring it reflects evolving customer needs and emerging technologies.
• Agile Coordination: Participate in SAFe/Scrum ceremonies (PI Planning, Sprint Review, Retrospective) and convey government priorities to the development teams without direct backlog ownership.

Minimum 3 years of product-related or senior stakeholder-management experience in an Agile (Scrum/SAFe) environment

• Hands on development experience designing, coding, testing, and deploying cloud native geospatial services (e.g., OSM tile pipelines, QGIS plugins, CI/CD pipelines) in an Agile/SAFe environment

• Prior work with geospatial platforms (OSM, QGIS, ArcGIS, etc.)

• Proven ability to engage senior government customers, translate mission goals into technical guidance, and influence product direction without direct line-management authority

• Security+ certification or willingness to obtain it (CompTIA Security+)

• U.S. citizen with active Top-Secret clearance and ability to obtain and maintain TS/SCI clearance with a CI Poly Desired Skills:

• Strong written & verbal communication; able to brief technical and non-technical audiences concisely

• Experience with OSM pipelines, APIs (Nominatim, Overpass) and tile-service architecture

• Familiarity with cloud platforms (AWS/Azure) and container-orchestration (Kubernetes/OpenShift) for geospatial service delivery

• Knowledge of DevSecOps practices, CI/CD tooling, and automated security testing in TS/SCI environments

• Understanding of geospatial standards (OGC, ISO 19115) and emerging tech (AI-driven feature extraction, vector tiles, real-time updates)

• Ability to build and present performance dashboards (Grafana, PowerBI, or NGA analytics)

• Prior experience briefing senior government leadership on technical solutions, risk, and roadmap strategy

• Security+ certification (CompTIA Security+)

• Active TS/SCI clearance with CI Polygraph Security Clearance Statement: This position requires a government security clearance, you must be a US Citizen for consideration. Clearance Level: TS/SCI w/Poly, Ability to Work Remotely: Onsite Full-time: The work associated with this position will be performed onsite at a designated Lockheed Martin facility.

Work Schedules: Lockheed Martin supports a variety of alternate work schedules that provide additional flexibility to our employees. Schedules range from standard 40 hours over a five day work week while others may be condensed. These condensed schedules provide employees with additional time away from the office and are in addition to our Paid Time off benefits. Schedule for this Position: 9x80 every other Friday off Lockheed Martin is an equal opportunity employer. Qualified candidates will be considered without regard to legally protected characteristics. The application window will close in 90 days; applicants are encouraged to apply within 5 - 30 days of the requisition posting date in order to receive optimal consideration. At Lockheed Martin, we use our passion for purposeful innovation to help keep people safe and solve the world's most complex challenges. Our people are some of the greatest minds in the industry and truly make Lockheed Martin a great place to work.

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