job summary:
Our West Michigan Client is looking for a Technical Product Owner. This is a remote role working EST hours. Ideal candidates will have a technical background such as developer, architect etc.
location: Telecommute
job type: Contract
salary: $65 - 80 per hour
work hours: 8am to 5pm
education: Bachelors
responsibilities:
- Translate business and compliance requirements into well-defined features, stories, and testable acceptance criteria for payments/tender flows.
- Maintain backlog ordering, readiness, and transparency for the team(s) you support; make timely scope and priority calls to keep delivery moving.
- Develop a working understanding of the payment pipeline (tender selection, authorization/capture, card tokenization, partial/split capture for marketplace orders, government benefit tender handling) sufficient to make informed tradeoffs with engineering.
- Partner with engineers/architects on discovery and refinement without dictating implementation; flag ambiguous requirements, dependency gaps, and risk early.
- Validate delivered work against acceptance criteria and intended outcome, including coordination of functional/integration testing across tender types.
- Ownership in release readiness for payments changes - understand what's shipping, confirm monitoring/rollback thinking, and support go-live communication.
- Support production issue triage for payments incidents (customer/business impact, ownership, communication) in partnership with engineering.
- Work within the team's existing SAFe Agile ceremonies (planning, standups, backlog refinement, retro).
qualifications:
Experience as a Technical Product Owner / Product Owner on a software delivery team (Agile/SAFe), not just a business analyst or project coordinator.
Demonstrated ability to create clear, testable acceptance criteria and break down features into right-sized stories.
Comfortable discussing APIs, data flows, and system integrations with engineers - enough technical depth to ask the right questions and make scope tradeoffs, not necessarily hands-on coding.
Experience owning a backlog for a service with real production usage (not just a greenfield project).
Strong written and verbal communication - this role will need to translate between engineering and business/compliance stakeholders.
Preferred:
Nice-to-have experience as a software engineer, architect, payment subject matter expert.
Prior experience in payments, order management, e-commerce checkout, or financial transaction systems.
Familiarity with event-driven/workflow-orchestration systems (e.g. Temporal, Kafka, Google Cloud Platform).
Exposure to PCI, tokenization, or other payment-compliance considerations.
Experience with retail/e-commerce order flows (pickup, delivery, marketplace/3rd-party fulfillment, subscriptions).
skills:
Agile,Kafka,APIs,data flows,integration testing,hands-on coding,system integrations,tokenization,Strong written and verbal communication,business impact,acceptance criteria,backlog refinement,e-commerce,shipping,financial,tender,order management,compliance requirements,requirements-gathering,retail,testable,technical discovery,technical depth,triage
Equal Opportunity Employer: Race, Color, Religion, Sex, Sexual Orientation, Gender Identity, National Origin, Age, Genetic Information, Disability, Protected Veteran Status, or any other legally protected group status.
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Pay offered to a successful candidate will be based on several factors including the candidate's education, work experience, work location, specific job duties, certifications, etc. In addition, Randstad Digital offers a comprehensive benefits package, including: medical, prescription, dental, vision, AD&D, and life insurance offerings, short-term disability, and a 401K plan (all benefits are based on eligibility).
This posting is open for thirty (30) days.
It is unlawful in Massachusetts to require or administer a lie detector test as a condition of employment or continued employment. An employer who violates this law shall be subject to criminal penalties and civil liability.
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