Description
The Technical Product Owner is the engineering-facing owner of execution readiness. This role converts high-level product requirements into build-ready stories, drives decomposition, defines workflows and technical documentation, and partners with Engineering, QA, and DevOps to deliver predictable outcomes with quality. You work tightly with the USA-based Product Owner - Customer Solutions who owns customer discovery, prioritization, and demos.
Key Responsibilities
Backlog Engineering & Decomposition (Build-ready delivery):
- Decompose epics/features into detailed user stories, technical tasks, and acceptance criteria.
- Run backlog refinement with engineering teams to ensure clarity, estimation readiness, and sequencing.
- Maintain Definition of Ready and Definition of Done discipline to reduce churn and rework.
Technical Documentation & Workflow Definition
- Create and maintain key artifacts : workflow diagrams, system flows, data mappings, integration notes, and edge cases.
- Ensure non-functional requirements are explicit (performance, security, reliability, observability).
- Partner with architects and engineering leads to validate feasibility and solution approach.
Sprint Execution & Delivery Predictability
- Drive sprint-level execution readiness : planning inputs, dependency tracking, and scope sequencing.
- Proactively unblock engineers and QA by clarifying logic, behavior, and constraints quickly.
- Communicate delivery risks, trade-offs, and technical dependencies early and clearly.
Quality, Validation & Release Readiness
- Define testable acceptance criteria and partner with QA to ensure strong functional and regression coverage.
- Support UAT readiness with the Customer PO : test notes, known issues list, validation steps, and demo readiness.
- Coordinate release inputs with DevOps/TPMs : release checklist, deployment readiness, and rollback Collaboration:
- Act as the India-based bridge across Engineering, QA, DevOps, and Support to maintain shared understanding of scope and intent.
- Ensure consistent documentation and traceability from requirements to build to validation.
Required Qualifications
- Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, IT, Engineering, or equivalent experience.
- 3+ years as a Technical Product Owner, Technical BA, or engineering-facing product role.
- Strong Agile delivery experience and working knowledge of Jira/Confluence/Azure DevOps.
- Solid understanding of APIs, integrations, data concepts, and modern software delivery practices.
Preferred Qualifications
- Experience with microservices, CI/CD, cloud platforms (AWS/Azure/GCP)
- Exposure to Git/Jenkins pipelines and DevOps collaboration.
- CSPO/PSPO/SAFe (or equivalent).
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