Job Title: Technical Product Owner
Location: Atlanta, GA
Duration: / Term: 6+ months
Experience Desired: 8+ Years
Job Description:
The Technical Product Owner will own the product vision, roadmap, and execution for a mission-critical middleware platform. This role requires deep technical expertise in distributed systems, asynchronous messaging, middleware architecture, caching strategies, and high-availability systems. The TPO will operate at the intersection of engineering, architecture, and business stakeholders to ensure platform scalability, reliability, performance, and security.
Roles & Responsibilities:
- Translate complex technical capabilities into business outcomes. Own and prioritize product backlog.
- Write detailed technical user stories and acceptance criteria.
- Active participation in quarterly planning and PI objectives, excellent stakeholder management skills.
- Align engineering capacity to strategic initiatives. Track KPIs and platform health metrics and publish to leadership.
Required Technical Skills:
- A strong understanding of the below:
- Event-driven architecture
- Asynchronous messaging systems (Kafka, MQ, AMQP etc)
- Distributed caching systems
- Microservices architecture
- REST & event-based APIs
- High-throughput distributed systems
Key Skills:
Product Owner, Kafka, MQ, Microservices architecture, Rest