IT Product Owner

You will act as the bridge between business stakeholders, development teams, and IT operations, ensuring reliable, scalable, secure, and future-ready solutions aligned with Mercedes-Benz standards and strategy.

• Own the technical architecture and design of one or more IT products, platforms, or applications.
• Define and drive technical decisions related to integrations, interfaces, scalability, performance, and security.
• Act as the technical counterpart of the Business Product Owner.
• Translate business requirements into robust technical solutions, epics, user stories, and acceptance criteria.
• Manage technical backlogs, balancing feature delivery, technical debt, security findings, and operational improvements.
• Coordinate dependencies with multiple teams across the Mercedes-Benz IT ecosystem.
• Ensure alignment with enterprise architecture principles, cloud standards, and long-term IT strategy.
• Drive lifecycle management, versioning strategies, and technology evolution.
• Provide technical guidance to development teams and ensure implementation quality.
• Ensure operational excellence through monitoring, incident handling, continuous optimization, and root-cause analysis.
• Guarantee compliance with security, data protection, and audit requirements.

• Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Software Engineering, Telecommunications, Information Systems, or a related technical field.
• Several years of experience in software engineering, solution architecture, platform engineering, or similar technical roles.
• Technical Product Owner
• Technical Owner
• Solution Architect
• Strong knowledge of:
• Distributed systems
• API-based and service-oriented architectures
• Containerization technologies
• CI/CD pipelines and automation
• Non-functional requirements such as security, availability, performance, and maintainability
• Experience working within Agile environments (Scrum, SAFe, Kanban).
• Strong analytical and problem-solving skills.
• Ability to communicate effectively with both technical and business stakeholders.
• Knowledge of IT architectures and enterprise landscapes.
• Proficiency with Microsoft Office and SharePoint.
• Strong ability to understand the current landscape, identify target solutions, and align business and technical requirements.
• Professional presentation and stakeholder management skills.
• High flexibility to travel internationally.
• During the initial ramp-up phase (approximately 2-3 months), availability to travel to Germany several days per week is expected.
• Afterwards, a hybrid/remote setup will be possible with occasional international travel., * Analytical mindset
• Problem-solving orientation
• Adaptability and flexibility
• Strong organization and discipline
• Quality-focused and reliable
• Goal-oriented approach
• German (nice to have)