**Location: 4x per week onsite in San Antonio TX (78259)**
**Rate: 68/hr W2**
**Job Description:**
* Develops internal facing data products in alignment with technical and architecture standards
* Proactively addresses and resolves issues by collaborating with Agile teams, stakeholders, and business representatives.
* Executes epics and stories to support completion of initiatives; applies Agile product development approaches within assigned team.
* Facilitates communication and planning between business and operations teams, data discovery, data integration, and business intelligence development teams.
* Resolves product-related issues, makes decisions and continuously does trade-off analyses to ensure development stays on track toward deliverable commitments
* Maintains the product backlog, prioritizing the items effectively and balancing them for short-term business-valuable product increment, mid-term opportunities to be seized and long-term problems to be prepared for.
**Skills/Qualifications Required:**
* Several years of experience in the IT industry, preferably in a product owner/manager role
* Demonstrated experience working in Agile environments (e.g., Scrum, SAFe), including sprint planning, backlog refinement, and collaboration with cross-functional delivery teams.
* Proven ability to create, refine, prioritize, and maintain product backlogs aligned to business value, customer needs, and delivery capacity.
* Ability to understand business objectives, value drivers, and tradeoffs, and translate them into clear product requirements and priorities.
* Experience defining, delivering, and managing data-driven products, including analytics, dashboards, data pipelines, or AI/ML-enabled solutions.
* Hands-on experience partnering with engineering, data, and design teams to deliver products from concept through release.
* Understanding of end-to-end product lifecycle management, including discovery, delivery, launch, iteration, and retirement.
* Strong communication skills with the ability to clearly articulate vision, priorities, and tradeoffs to technical and non-technical stakeholders.
Apex Systems is a world-class IT services company that serves thousands of clients across the globe. When you join Apex, you become part of a team that values innovation, collaboration, and continuous learning. We offer quality career resources, training, certifications, development opportunities, and a comprehensive benefits package. Our commitment to excellence is reflected in many awards, including ClearlyRated's Best of Staffing in Talent Satisfaction in the United States and Great Place to Work in the United Kingdom and Mexico. Apex uses a virtual recruiter as part of the application process. Click for more details.
**Apex Benefits Overview:**Apex offers a range of supplemental benefits, including medical, dental, vision, life, disability, and other insurance plans that offer an optional layer of financial protection. We offer an ESPP (employee stock purchase program) and a 401K program which allows you to contribute typically within 30 days of starting, with a company match after 12 months of tenure. Apex also offers a HSA (Health Savings Account on the HDHP plan), a SupportLinc Employee Assistance Program (EAP) with up to 8 free counseling sessions, a corporate discount savings program and other discounts. In terms of professional development, Apex hosts an on-demand training program, provides access to certification prep and a library of technical and leadership courses/books/seminars once you have 6+ months of tenure, and certification discounts and other perks to associations that include CompTIA and IIBA. Apex has a dedicated customer service team for our Consultants that can address questions around benefits and other resources, as well as a certified Career Coach. You can access a full list of our benefits, programs, support teams and resources within our 'Welcome Packet' as well, which an Apex team member can provide.
