API-Centric Technical Product Owner

Emirates; Dubai Emirate; On-site; AED 260,000 - 460,000; Full time

Job summary

Emirates Group IT seeks a Technical Product Owner - API Specialist to drive API-first product strategies across Digital, Airline, and Airport Operations domains. You will lead multiple product teams, manage backlogs, and ensure alignment with business goals while delivering value to customers.

Join our Dubai-based team to shape API platforms, developer experience, and governance in a fast-paced, technology-driven environment. Experience with SAFe and API ecosystems is highly valued.

Qualifications

• Degree in IT with honours or equivalent.
• 5+ years in IT, including 2+ years as Product Owner/Manager.
• Experience with API-first products and scaled agile practices (SAFe/PSPO) is preferred.

Responsibilities

• Own story content, acceptance criteria, and sign-off across team backlogs.
• Capture non-functional requirements and technical debt for all sprints.
• Prepare PI demo contributions with other Product Owners.
• Maintain risk and dependency visibility back to the Portfolio backlog.
• Attend Product Management meetings and PI Planning sessions.
• Define metrics to measure success and prioritise BAU iterations accordingly.
• Foster a community of Product Owners and drive process improvements.
• Collaborate to capture team-driven innovation ideas for the TPM community.

Skills

API design

API lifecycle

REST APIs

OpenAPI

Event-driven

CI/CD

GitLab CI

Docker

Terraform

Ansible

Kong API Gateway

API governance

Security by design

Developer Experience

Education

Degree in IT

Tools

GitLab CI

Artifactory

Nexus

Docker

Terraform

Ansible

Job description

Emirates Group IT seeks a Technical Product Owner - API Specialist to drive API-first product strategies across Digital, Airline, and Airport Operations domains. You will lead multiple product teams, manage backlogs, and ensure alignment with business goals while delivering value to customers.

Join our Dubai-based team to shape API platforms, developer experience, and governance in a fast-paced, technology-driven environment. Experience with SAFe and API ecosystems is highly valued.