Product Owner

Description

• Own and maintain a technically detailed product backlog aligned to platform architecture and business priorities
• Decompose high-level initiatives into epics, features, and user stories with clear technical acceptance criteria
• Collaborate with architects and senior engineers on system design, integration patterns, and technical feasibility
• Define and document functional and non-functional requirements, including performance, security, scalability, and reliability
• Partner with DevOps teams to align backlog priorities with CI/CD pipelines, release strategies, and deployment schedules
• Participate in technical design discussions, backlog refinement, sprint planning, reviews, and retrospectives
• Manage dependencies across teams, services, and third-party integrations
• Support API-first and event-driven development by defining contracts, payloads, and interface expectations
• Validate completed work through story acceptance, integration testing coordination, and release sign-off
• Support production readiness, including release notes, rollout planning, and post-deployment validation
• Analyze production issues, defects, and technical debt to drive root-cause remediation and backlog prioritization
• Use metrics such as velocity, cycle time, defect trends, and system performance to inform prioritization decisions

Requirements

• 4+ years of experience as a Product Owner, Technical Business Analyst, or similar role supporting software engineering teams
• Strong understanding of Agile frameworks (Scrum, Kanban) and end-to-end SDLC practices
• Hands-on experience writing technically detailed user stories and acceptance criteria
• Working knowledge of modern software architectures (microservices, APIs, cloud-native applications)
• Experience working with relational and/or NoSQL databases and understanding data models and data flows
• Familiarity with CI/CD concepts, version control, and release management
• Ability to read and interpret technical documentation, logs, and system diagrams
• Experience using Agile delivery tools such as Jira, Azure DevOps, or equivalent

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