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Agent guide: [/agents.md](https://www.wearedevelopers.com/agents.md). --- # Staff Agile Product Owner - **Company:** Northrop Grumman - **Location:** Morrisville, NC, United States - **Experience:** Experienced - **Salary:** $169,000.0 - $253,600.0 - **Contract:** Permanent contract - **Skills:** Kubernetes Security, Agile Methodology, Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud, Amazon S3, Custom Software, Python (Programming Language), Scrum Methodology, Service Discovery, Software Engineering, Autoscaling, Kubernetes Helm Charts, Cloudformation, Amazon Relational Database Service, Gitlab-ci, Kubernetes, Atlassian Tools, Functional Programming, Jenkins - **Published:** August 21, 2026 - **Apply:** https://dejobs.org/x/x/831B0531AE684B1B9C4086FA70C4C5CC/job/ ## About the Role This Agile Product Owner will represent Product Management and the voice of customers on the Agile development team. They will collaborate with Product Managers to define the work so that the integrated team can review, commit, and execute within a defined period. They prioritize key areas of work during a program increment, ensure that the software development team understands the intent and requirements of feature and user story definitions, and that the team is aligned on all acceptance criteria. They will represent customer interests and will continuously dictate team backlog priorities. This Agile PO must have a strong understanding of Agile PO role and technical experience developing and fielding command and control systems (TT&C, Flight Dynamics, etc) for Space Systems. This position will be at our site either in Morrisville, North Carolina or Fairfax, Virginia. This position requires being on-site and does not support remote or hybrid work. This position is contingent upon the verification and transfer of current/active DoD security clearance and program access as required for business needs. This position is also for an anticipated award and is thus contingent on funding of that award., * Must have an active U.S. Government DoD Top Secret/Sensitive Compartmented Information (SCI) security clearance at the time of application [ US Citizenship required ] * Minimum years of experience needed to be considered: * Level 5 (Staff) * 12 Years of relevant experience with a completed Bachelor's * 10 Years of relevant experience with a completed Masters's * 8 Years of relevant experience with a completed PhD * 14 Years of relevant software engineering experience with a completed associate's degree * 16 years of relevant work software engineering experience in lieu of a completed degree ( High School diploma or equivalent is required ) * 3+ years' experience working in a software Agile delivery framework * 3+ years of experience with product lifecycles for new and existing products (replacement for must have product development experience) * 2+ years of product roadmap development experience * Experience converting technical and business requirements into Epics, Features, and User Stories * Experience presenting and conducting demos of software product to users/leadership/stakeholders * Demonstrated communication skills and visionary on business, user experience, and technical sides of product development * Experience with Atlassian tool suite (Jira and Confluence) * Experience leading a product development team, * Product owner certification or any other major Agile certification * Experience with both COTS solution and custom application development * Experience as a Scrum Master * Experience leading or supporting distributed teams * Has experience as a software developer to better interact and direct the team * Knowledge of container security best practices * Hands-on experience with AWS services (EC2, S3, Lambda, RDS, CloudFormation, etc.) * Familiarity with CI/CD pipelines and tools such as GitLab CI, Jenkins, or similar * Solid understanding of Kubernetes (Helm charts, service discovery, autoscaling, etc.) * Knowledgeable with Python * Technical experience developing and fielding command and control systems (TT&C, Flight Dynamics, etc) for Space Systems ## Description Northrop Grumman Space Systems (NGSP) is seeking an Agile Product Owner to join our team in the Payload & Ground Software Engineering organization supporting the a Ground program. 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