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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