Akkodis is seeking a Product Owner for a Contract with a client in San Antonio, TX/Plano, TX. This role requires an experienced IAM-focused stakeholder and requirements leader to drive delivery across authentication and identity platforms.
Rate Range: $45/hour to $ 49 /hour; The rate may be negotiable based on experience, education, geographic location, and other factors.
Product Owner job responsibilities include:
- Lead stakeholder workshops to elicit and document clear, testable acceptance criteria and business requirements; maintain traceability in Jira.
- Act as primary liaison to the MIAM development team, aligning business objectives with technical capabilities and delivery plans.
- Own and prioritize the Agile product backlog with wellformed API and UX user stories, ensuring at least two sprints of refined work ready for execution.
- Serve as proxy Scrum lead when needed; drive sprint planning, backlog refinement, demos, and retrospectives; review and accept/decline deliverables against acceptance criteria.
- Ensure the Identity & Authentication platform meets compliance, regulatory, and security standards; monitor performance metrics and user feedback to drive improvements, reduce latency, and enhance satisfaction.
- Proactively manage risks, dependencies, and technical debt; communicate timelines, updates, and blockers; coordinate change readiness and adoption metrics with business owners.
Required Qualifications: - Bachelor's degree in computer science, Information Systems, Cybersecurity, or a related field.
- 8-10 years of experience in IAM, API/UX story writing, Agile delivery, or technical product/requirements management.
- Strong IAM domain expertise-specifically authentication, identity lifecycle processes, and understanding of compliance/security standards.
- Proven ability to manage and prioritize a technical Agile backlog using tools like Jira, with experience defining clear, testable acceptance criteria for API and UX stories.
If you are interested in this role, then please click APPLY NOW. For other opportunities available at Akkodis, or any questions, feel free to contact me at
Gopal.Gupta@ akkodisgroup.com. Pay Details: $45.00 to $49.00 per hour
Benefit offerings available for our associates include medical, dental, vision, life insurance, short-term disability, additional voluntary benefits, EAP program, commuter benefits and a 401K plan. Our benefit offerings provide employees the flexibility to choose the type of coverage that meets their individual needs. In addition, our associates may be eligible for paid leave including Paid Sick Leave or any other paid leave required by Federal, State, or local law, as well as Holiday pay where applicable.
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