Technical Product Owner

The Role:

• Our Product team is seeking a Technical Product Owner with a passion for innovation and a dedication to delivering high-quality, differentiated data solutions within our clients integrated risk platform. 
• At the core of our client's mission is the commitment to building a productive, safe, and sustainable world through innovative products and services. By seamlessly integrating domain expertise, data, and design, we tackle our customers' most pressing challenges, delivering solutions that make a difference every day.
• Are you driven to address complex analytics challenges in risk and compliance? Are you eager to collaborate with leading domain experts to overcome the data obstacles our customers encounter as they strive to decarbonize their operations? Are you passionate about developing actionable insights that enhance workplace safety?

Responsibilities:

• You will collaborate closely with the Product Manager to lead the strategic development of the data platform roadmap, ensuring it is fully aligned with the company's overarching objectives.
• Cultivate strong partnerships with stakeholders across multidisciplinary engineering teams and departments, gathering critical requirements and designing innovative solutions.
• Utilize your deep expertise in data engineering to align technical capabilities seamlessly with business objectives.
• Take full ownership of the backlog for the data platform, prioritizing and managing it to ensure that all deliverables are strategically aligned and executed effectively.
• Develop detailed user stories and facilitate backlog refinement sessions to guarantee clear communication and alignment within the team.
• Maintain a strong grasp of emerging technology trends and developments, offering informed recommendations to elevate the platform's technical capabilities.
• Champion an agile mindset that extends beyond traditional frameworks, fostering an environment where engineering and product teams are empowered and operate autonomously.
• Leverage your experience within technical organizations to make strategic decisions regarding build-versus-buy scenarios.
• Contribute to the maintenance of comprehensive product and technical documentation, ensuring clarity and accessibility for both internal and external stakeholders.

Requirements:

• University degree in Computer Science, Mathematics, Physics, or a related area 
• Deep interest in Product Management, ideally with at least 2+ year experience working as a Technical Product Manager and/or Product Owner. 
• Data engineering background with at least 3+ years working as a Software Engineer and/or Data Engineer
• Excellent communication skills, with the ability to understand stakeholder requirements clearly and translate this to the technical teams. 
• Ideally, experience working with Azure Services and big data frameworks/tools.
• Solid understanding of how to build a modern and scalable big data systems.
• Has user-centric design mindset.
• Is comfortable working in an agile environment.
• Strong interpersonal and communication skills.
• Adaptable to an ever-changing development environment.
• Strong work ethic & high degree of integrity.