Product Owner

Peraton is looking to hire a Product Owner for our innovative team to help modernize the Theater Mission Planning Center (TMPC) while ensuring the reliability of today's operational system. TMPC is the mission planning and execution component of the Tomahawk Weapon System (TWS). This role will have the ability to by hybrid but you must be willing to be on-site in Santa Clara, CA or Reston, VA.

You'll work with experienced mentors to maintain and enhance the current system while contributing to its transformation into a next-generation capability, growing your skills across the full technology stack. As a Product Owner, you will support an Agile development team building mission-critical software solutions. This role operates within a Scaled Agile Framework (SAFe) environment and works closely with Product Management, System Architects, and cross-functional development teams to define, prioritize, and deliver high-value capabilities.

What you'll do:

Backlog Ownership: Support an Agile development team building mission-critical software solutions
• Agile Development Support: Participate in Program Increment (PI) Planning, backlog refinement, sprint planning, and system demos, while working closely with Scrum Masters and engineering teams to ensure stories are well defined and ready for development
• Stakeholder Collaboration: Serve as the primary liaison between the development team and program stakeholders translating mission and operational requirements into actionable backlog items
• Acceptance & Validation: Define acceptance criteria and ensure completed work meets program and quality expectations. Review and accept completed user stories during sprint reviews
• Continuous Improvement: Support Agile metrics tracking and improvement initiatives and help ensure alignment with SAFe best practices, DevSecOps pipelines, and secure software development standards
• Documentation: Ensure development artifacts support required documentation, security, and test processes

What you'll need:

• Education: 5 years with BS/BA; 3 years with MS/MA, or 9 years of experience in lieu of a degree
• Clearance: active DoD secret clearance
• At least 3 years of experience serving as a Product Owner, Product Manager, or Business Analyst in Agile teams
• Agile Development fundamentals Familiarity with SAFe Agile principles and ceremonies
• Experience managing backlogs using tools such as Jira, Azure DevOps, or similar
• Strong communication and stakeholder management skills

Peraton is a next-generation national security company that drives missions of consequence spanning the globe and extending to the farthest reaches of the galaxy. As the world's leading mission capability integrator and transformative enterprise IT provider, we deliver trusted, highly differentiated solutions and technologies to protect our nation and allies. Peraton operates at the critical nexus between traditional and nontraditional threats across all domains: land, sea, space, air, and cyberspace. The company serves as a valued partner to essential government agencies and supports every branch of the U.S. armed forces. Each day, our employees do the can't be done by solving the most daunting challenges facing our customers. Visit peraton.com to learn how we're keeping people around the world safe and secure.