Technical Product Owner

KEY RESPONSIBILITIES

Takes full ownership of managing grooming and prioritizing the product backlog in alignment with business objectives.

Writes detailed clear and actionable user stories and epics incorporating technical requirements and constraints.

Collaborates with development teams to ensure stories are well understood estimated accurately and broken down into manageable tasks.

Serves as a key point of contact between business and technical stakeholders ensuring technical requirements align with business goals.

Works with architects developers and DevOps engineers to design solutions validate feasibility and ensure scalability.

Provides technical input during architecture and solution design discussions.

Contributes to defining and refining the product vision strategy and roadmap incorporating feedback from key stakeholders.

Conducts market and competitive analysis to inform product decisions and identify new technical opportunities.

Drives continuous improvement of the product by leveraging metrics user feedback and emerging technology trends.

Leads sprint planning backlog refinement daily standups and sprint reviews to ensure development teams are focused and productive.

Champions Agile best practices and drives continuous improvement in team processes and collaboration.

Manages sprint goals and timelines balancing scope resources and priorities to ensure timely product delivery.

Collaborates with the engineering team to translate complex technical and system requirements into clear actionable product features.

Understands and documents technical workflows data models APIs and integrations.

Evaluates and recommends tools frameworks and technologies that support product objectives.

Serves as a bridge between technical and nontechnical stakeholders translating technical concepts into businessfriendly language.

Acts as the primary interface for resolving product issues and ensuring alignment across development operations and support teams.

Facilitates technical discussions and decisionmaking processes across teams to drive product delivery.

Defines and enforces acceptance criteria for features and user stories to ensure highquality deliverables.

Collaborates with the QA team to develop comprehensive test plans perform acceptance testing and ensure product readiness.

Leads user acceptance testing (UAT) sessions ensuring that product features meet business and technical requirements.

Coordinates product releases working closely with release management DevOps and support teams.

Monitors and tracks the performance of product features postlaunch and implements necessary improvements.

Provides postrelease support to address technical issues and feedback from users and stakeholders.

Works with business applications across various environments including onpremises hybrid and cloud systems.

Works with the infrastructure and cloud teams to ensure that application environments are stable secure and meet business performance expectations.

Supports the transition of applications from onpremises environments to cloud or hybrid architectures working closely with senior IT leadership on cloud migration strategies.

Ensures proper governance and performance monitoring for applications in all environments proactively identifying areas for optimization.

Assists as liaison between business users IT teams and external vendors to ensure that applications meet the needs of the organization and align with business goals.

Facilitates communication between technical teams and business stakeholders ensuring clear understanding of project timelines deliverables and expectations.

Works closely with IT managers and teams to ensure successful integration of business applications with other enterprise systems.

Ensures business applications comply with industry regulations and internal security standards including SOX PCIDSS and other financial sector regulations.

Works with the cybersecurity team to ensure applications are secured against potential threats and vulnerabilities.

Supports procedures for regular audits risk assessments and disaster recovery plans for critical applications.

EDUCATION: Bachelors degree in Information Technology Computer Science Software Engineering or related field required.

CERTIFICATIONS: Preferred: Certified Scrum Product Owner (CSPO) Professional Scrum Product Owner (PSPO) or SAFe certifications.

EXPERIENCE: Required: Minimum of 3 years of experience in product management business analysis or related technical role within an IT environment. Proven experience working with Agile development teams and using Agile tools such as JIRA Confluence or Azure DevOps. Experience in leading technical discussions and collaborating with development teams architects and DevOps engineers. Preferred: Experience with microservice architecture containerization (e.g. Docker Kubernetes) and modern cloudnative applications. Handson experience with tools like Git Jenkins or containerization.

Strong technical background with an understanding of system architecture APIs cloud technologies databases and software development practices.

Familiarity with CI/CD pipelines DevOps practices and cloud platforms like AWS Azure or Google Cloud.

Strong understanding of data management principles integrations and APIs.

Strong knowledge of automation tools monitoring and logging platforms.