Technical Product Owner

The Technical Product Owner will play a pivotal role in defining, prioritizing, and delivering cutting-edge technical solutions for the company’s platform and services. This role requires a balance of technical expertise, business acumen, and strong leadership to drive product strategy and execution. The Technical Product Owner will work closely with engineering teams, stakeholders, and leadership to ensure the successful development and launch of products that meet business and customer needs., * Define and maintain a clear product vision, roadmap, and backlog for technical products.

• Collaborate with engineering, design, and business teams to define product requirements.
• Own and refine user stories and acceptance criteria for the development team.
• Act as the key point of contact between business stakeholders and engineering teams.
• Drive the agile development process, including backlog grooming, sprint planning, and release management.
• Ensure the successful execution of product releases, balancing speed, quality, and scalability.
• Continuously analyze market trends, customer feedback, and data insights to inform product decisions.
• Prioritize feature development based on business impact, customer value, and technical feasibility.
• Conduct regular product demonstrations, status updates, and stakeholder briefings.
• Ensure proper documentation and knowledge transfer across teams., Own product direction for FinOps data lake, ELT pipelines, and platform services. Translate stakeholder needs into sequenced engineering specifications, define SLAs and governance controls, drive source onboarding and Cloudera-to-lakehouse migration, improve developer experience, and measure adoption, reliability, and compliance across data and platform teams. Top Skills: Apache IcebergArgo WorkflowsAWSAzureCdcCi/CdClouderaCoderDbtElt/EtlGCPHadoopHive MetastoreJupyterJupyterhubLakehouseLightdashParquetPrestoProject NessieRedashTrino Veltris, Serve as a Technical Product Owner/Business Analyst: elicit requirements, run workshops, convert needs into user stories and functional specs, define acceptance criteria, maintain backlog, support sprint planning, collaborate with engineering/QA, produce documentation, and ensure knowledge transfer.

• Strong analytical and problem-solving skills, with the ability to make data-driven decisions.
• Deep understanding of agile methodologies, particularly Scrum and Kanban.
• Ability to bridge the gap between business needs and technical solutions.
• Excellent stakeholder management and communication skills.
• Strong ability to prioritize and manage competing demands.
• High level of ownership and accountability for product outcomes.
• Experience working with cross-functional teams in a fast-paced environment.
• Passion for technology and innovation, with a keen eye for product usability.

1. JOB PREREQUISITES (EDUCATION, PREVIOUS EXPERIENCE ETC) * 5+ years of experience in product management, software development, or a related technical field. * Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or a related field; MBA is a plus. * Experience working with Agile software development teams. * Strong knowledge of cloud platforms (AWS, GCP, or Azure) and API-driven architectures. * Experience working with JIRA, Confluence, and other similar product management tools. * Ability to work effectively with both technical and non-technical stakeholders.

Remote Michigan, USA 89K-138K Annually Mid level 89K-138K Annually Mid level eCommerce * Retail * Sales Serve as the technical product owner for vendor software/hardware packages: configure and integrate vendor applications, define acceptance criteria and user stories, support deployments and production maintenance, collaborate with vendors, ITS Security/Infrastructure, and stakeholders, perform feasibility studies and pilots, and participate in SAFe/Agile ceremonies (may act as Scrum Master). Top Skills: AgileItilSafeScrum

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