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# Technical Product Owner EMP

- **Company:** E.ON
- **Location:** Essen, Germany
- **Experience:** Starter
- **Salary:** €70,000.0 - €90,000.0
- **Contract:** Permanent contract
- **Skills:** Application Programming Interfaces (APIs), Agile Methodology, Software Quality, Cyber Security, DevOps, Mobile Application Software, Software Architecture, Software Engineering, IT Architecture, Technical Debt, Backend
- **Published:** October 17, 2026
- **Apply:** https://www.adzuna.de/details/5931397180

## About the Role

* You have several years of experience as a Technical Product Owner, Technical Product Manager, or in a comparable role for digital products - preferably with payment or customer-facing platform
 * You have a strong background in software development or software architecture and can assess technical decisions and discuss them with the development team
 * You have experience with mobile applications, backend systems, APIs, and the integration of external services. You understand the requirements of scalable, reliably operable platforms
 * You can prioritize diverse business and technical requirements and develop an actionable roadmap from them
 * You have provided functional leadership to agile development teams and have experience collaborating with external development partners
 * You regard software quality, information security, and data protection as integral parts of product development and involve the relevant specialist functions at an early stage
 * You use AI-assisted development tools and can assess their use within the team in terms of productivity and quality
 * You communicate technical matters clearly, make sound decisions, and create accountability across team and country boundaries
 * You are willing to travel regularly within EDRI's European markets to collaborate with country teams and partners
 * You communicate confidently in English

## Description

You are responsible for the technical development of our international EMP platform. Together with the Business Owners, the Commercial Product & Partnership Manager and the Product Designer, you translate customer needs and business objectives into a prioritized product roadmap and a scalable technical architecture.
You lead an agile team of internal specialists and external developers, setting clear product goals and priorities so that requirements become reliable, user-friendly solutions that can be operated cost-effectively.

Your Responsibilities

 * Develop the technical product roadmap and prioritize the backlog based on customer and business value, dependencies, and effort
 * Translate commercial and operational requirements into implementation packages, user stories, and verifiable acceptance criteria
 * Together with your team and EDRI's IT architecture functions, shape an architecture that supports product objectives, scalability, security, maintainability, and cost efficiency
 * Provide functional leadership through clear goals and priorities, plan realistic delivery increments, and foster autonomous agile working
 * Oversee the technical interplay of app, backend, payment, vehicle integrations, CRM, Customer Identity, and CPO interfaces
 * Support country rollouts and ensure local requirements are delivered through a shared, reusable platform
 * Together with QA, DevOps, and Operations, define requirements for quality, testability, monitoring, and operational stability
 * Manage external development partners for scope, quality, and performance while retaining critical knowledge internally
 * Together with the team, establish effective AI-assisted development with clear quality standards and accountability
 * Make progress, risks, and technical actions transparent and balance feature development, platform development, and technical debt