API Product Owner — REST & OpenAPI Leader

Emirates; Dubai; On-site; AED 420,000 - 640,000; Full time

Job summary

Emirates Group IT is seeking a Technical Product Owner - API Specialist in Dubai to lead API-driven product delivery. You will own user stories, manage acceptance criteria, and coordinate with cross-functional teams to ensure timely PI planning and homegrown API governance.

The role requires deep API experience and a customer-centric product mindset. You will collaborate with Product Owners to drive PI demos, manage technical debt, and refine non-functional requirements, while contributing to a

Qualifications

• Degree or Honours in IT.
• 5+ years in Information Technology with 2+ years as Product Owner/Manager, delivering at pace.

Responsibilities

• Be responsible for story content, acceptance criteria, and end story sign-off across team backlogs.
• Ensure Technical Debt and non-functional requirements are captured, refined, and prioritised.
• Capture additional BAU, Ceremony, and Spike activities into backlogs.
• Prepare contribution to PI demos with other Product Owners.
• Maintain feature quality and manage risks/dependencies back to Portfolio backlog.
• Attend and contribute to key Product Management meetings, especially PI Planning.
• Define metrics to measure success and efficiency of prioritised work.

Skills

API-first

API-as-a-Product

REST APIs

Async APIs

OpenAPI

Event-driven patterns

API governance

API Security by Design

Scaled Agile / SAFe

CI/CD

GitLab CI

Docker

Terraform

Ansible

Kong API Gateway

Developer Portals

API catalogues

Education

Degree or Honours (12+3) in IT

Tools

Kong API Gateway

GitLab CI

Artifactory

Nexus

Docker

Terraform

Ansible

Job description

Emirates Group IT is seeking a Technical Product Owner - API Specialist in Dubai to lead API-driven product delivery. You will own user stories, manage acceptance criteria, and coordinate with cross-functional teams to ensure timely PI planning and homegrown API governance.

The role requires deep API experience and a customer-centric product mindset. You will collaborate with Product Owners to drive PI demos, manage technical debt, and refine non-functional requirements, while contributing to a