Cloud Native Product Specialist

Position:Cloud Native Product Specialist

Location: On-site in the National Capital Region

Duration: Multiyear contract

Security Clearance: Federal Government SECRET Clearance

Language: English

Background:

Our federal government client is seeking resources to focus on identifying the feature set for the application and translating that to a user experience for the development team.

Qualifications:

· Valid Government of Canada Security Clearance at the level of SECRET (must already be held)

· To be successful experience with VMware Tanzu will be required

· The proposed resource must have the VMware Master Services Competencies (MSCs) certification for their area of service and their training certification endorsed by VMware

· You must have completed a minimum of 2 projects where you were responsible for performing requirements gathering for new application features, and transforming requirements into personas and user stories, creating a backlog and helping plan and prioritize stories for the development team

· Responsible for employing User-Centered Design, to understand the user and their needs, and to solve the problems they are facing – including demonstrating the use of more than one of the following methodologies: user interviews, ethnographic studies, persona definition

· Prototype creation and user experience testing

Responsibilities could entail:

· Explore client vision and problems, so they can develop the appropriate products

· Perform requirements gathering and transform requirements into personas and user stories

· Create a backlog and help plan and prioritize stories for the development team

· Employ User-Centered Design, to understand the user and their needs, and to solve the problems they are facing. User-centered design may include user interviews, ethnographic studies, persona definition, prototype creation and user experience testing

· Translating user needs into development activities, which may include completing the information architecture, creating user flows, creating wire frames, establishing visual design, and making high fidelity mock-ups and style guides

· Employ Hypothesis-Driven Product Management, which is the practice of treating the development of new products as running a series of experiments. Instead of formulating requirements, the designer formulates hypotheses along with some validation criteria that state how strong of a signal we need to consider the hypothesis true

· Guide teams and process to make a full transformational change to Agile Software delivery. This transformation will put in place collaborative, cross-functional and self- organizing teams that deliver software in an incremental and iterative way. This will enable them to move on with confidence when the project has been completed

If interested please apply to at derek.weber@kyndryl.com

Job Type: Fixed term contract

Salary: $31,000.00-$158,304.03 per year

Schedule:

• Monday to Friday

Ability to commute/relocate:

• Ottawa, ON: reliably commute or plan to relocate before starting work (required)

Work Location: In person