Technical Product Owner 3 (Cloud)

United Launch Alliance is seeking a Technical Product Owner 3 (Cloud) to help translate program-level priorities into clear, execution-ready work for an engineering team. In this onsite role in Centennial, CO, you will shape the team backlog, lead Agile planning and delivery execution, and coordinate cross-team efforts tied to cloud migration, modernization, and operational support.

Role focus

You will own the team backlog and turn epics and customer needs into well-defined stories with acceptance criteria and definition of done. Working closely with Tech Leads and stakeholders, you will drive technical alignment, manage dependencies, and support delivery excellence for cloud initiatives and operational support outcomes.

Key responsibilities

• Own and maintain the team-level backlog, ensuring alignment to Program Backlog priorities and strategic objectives.
• Write and refine epics and user stories with clear acceptance criteria and definition of done, collaborating with Tech Leads on feasibility and sequencing.
• Represent the voice of the customer and business needs in day-to-day team decisions and Agile ceremonies.
• Lead sprint planning, delivery, and roadmap execution by coordinating dependencies and managing stakeholder priorities.
• Accept completed work against acceptance criteria, escalate scope or priority conflicts as needed, and produce reporting for assigned areas.
• Develop and maintain RAID logs, support continuous improvement, and drive measurable outcomes across delivery scope.
• Facilitate onboarding, enablement, and upskilling for new team members and roles.
• Lead cross-team coordination for migration, modernization, and operational support initiatives, including examples such as GitLab migrations, cloud ops readiness, and build pipeline reliability.

Minimum requirements

• Bachelor’s degree in a STEM field from an accredited college or university.
• Strong backlog management and story-writing discipline, comfortable operating at execution-level detail.
• Technical fluency to engage substantively with Tech Leads and Solution Architects on feasibility and tradeoffs.
• Clear communicator who can translate between business stakeholders and delivery teams.
• Experience in a Scrum/SAFe team-level Product Owner capacity.
• Demonstrated ability to lead team delivery, coordinate dependencies, and manage stakeholder priorities.
• Consistent, high-quality work with a dependable, proactive approach.
• Strong ability to use metrics such as burn-up/down and unplanned vs planned work to improve predictability and delivery quality.
• Minimum experience: 4 years.

Technologies

• AWS, EKS
• CI/CD pipelines
• Software Configuration Management (SCM)
• DevSecOps
• GitLab, Bamboo
• SonarQube, JFrog

Benefits

• 401(k) match plus an additional employer contribution
• Discretionary annual incentive bonus for eligible employees
• Generous paid time off
• Flexible work environments
• Most salaried ULA team members work a 9/80 schedule, with every other Friday off

Preferred qualifications

• Proven ability to work with architects to define medium- and long-term technical roadmaps and convert them into actionable backlog updates.
• Experience with cloud infrastructure (AWS/EKS), CI/CD pipelines, SCM, and DevSecOps practices.
• Familiarity with migration leadership, build discipline, and operational support excellence.
• Exposure to configuration management, version control, and automation tools such as GitLab, Bamboo, SonarQube, and JFrog.
• Ability to drive continuous improvement, mentor peers, and propose scalable solutions.
• Deep, hands-on experience leading vision across stakeholders and workflows.
• Trusted to own and evolve complex business logic and domain features, with system-level thinking and proactive risk identification.
• Proven experience leading cloud migration or transition activities, Cloud Operations, and support of cloud-based systems in a mission critical environment.
• Experience driving LLM Ops / AI adoption, governance, cost control, and feature intake processes involving Solution Architecture integration.
• Demonstrated experience supporting AWS/EKS modernization, including optimization, observability, and team enablement for cloud-native workloads.
• Ability to define and operationalize cloud on-call readiness, runbooks, process definitions, and shared responsibility models with IT Cloud Ops.

Security clearance / ITAR

This position requires use of information subject to the International Traffic In Arms Regulations (ITAR). Applicants must be U.S. Persons as defined in ITAR 22 CFR 120.62 (e).