Platform Product Owner

Groupe SII; Toronto; On-site; CAD 250,000 - 350,000; Full time

Job summary

An established industry player seeks a dynamic Platform Product Owner to lead product strategy and stakeholder management. In this pivotal role, you will define and prioritize the product backlog, ensuring alignment with user needs and technical feasibility. Collaborating closely with cross-functional teams, you will influence architectural decisions and promote best practices in Agile development. This position offers an exciting opportunity to drive innovation and improve the developer experience within a vibrant tech environment. If you are passionate about cloud-native solutions and thrive in a collaborative setting, this role is perfect for you.

Qualifications

• 5+ years of experience in Product Management or Platform Engineering roles.
• Proven experience working on cloud-native platforms and internal tooling.
• Strong communication skills and stakeholder management.

Responsibilities

• Define and prioritize the product backlog for the platform engineering team.
• Provide input on architectural decisions around AWS services.
• Champion self-service capabilities that improve the developer journey.

Skills

Product Management

Stakeholder Management

Cloud-native Platforms

Agile Methodologies

Communication Skills

Education

Bachelor's Degree in Computer Science or related field

AWS Certification

Tools

Amazon EKS

Terraform

GitLab CI

AWS Lambda

ArgoCD

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Partenaire technologique des grandes entreprises depuis 1979, le Groupe SII est au cœur de l'économie de l'innovation avec 16 000 collaborateurs, une présence internationale dans 20 pays, et un chiffre d’affaires supérieur à 1.621 milliards de dollars canadiens.

SII Canada offre à ses clients une expertise technique avancée dans les domaines du développement applicatif, Web et Mobile, de la Cybersécurité et du Cloud. Nous intervenons également en Ingénierie, particulièrement sur les systèmes embarqués dans divers secteurs industriels. Notre ambition : faire évoluer les systèmes d’information et contribuer à la création des produits et services de demain pour nos clients.

En tant qu’entreprise de consultation en TI basée au Québec, SII Canada opère dans un environnement mondial où l’anglais est essentiel. Nous restons dédiés à la promotion et au respect de la langue française au sein de notre entreprise.

Key Responsibilities

• Product Ownership & Stakeholder Management – 40%
• Act as the voice of the platform's users – mainly developers, ML engineers, and infrastructure teams.
• Define and prioritize the product backlog for the platform engineering team.
• Translate high-level product requirements into user stories with clear acceptance criteria.
• Work closely with stakeholders to align on platform goals, usage patterns, and pain points.
• Own sprint planning, backlog grooming, and cross-team coordination.
• Platform Architecture & Technical Guidance – 20%
• Provide input on high-level architectural decisions around EKS, serverless designs, and multi-account AWS architecture.
• Collaborate with architects and senior engineers to evaluate tools and frameworks.
• Review technical designs to ensure alignment with business objectives and platform standards.
• Act as a bridge between business requirements and technical feasibility.
• Roadmap Planning & Execution – 15%
• Define short and long-term roadmap for internal platform capabilities (e.g., CI/CD tooling, observability, infrastructure automation).
• Track feature delivery and adoption across teams.
• Lead regular planning and review meetings with platform stakeholders.
• Developer Experience & Enablement – 15%
• Champion self-service capabilities that improve the developer journey.
• Promote adoption of best practices around GitOps, CI/CD pipelines, and automated deployment workflows.
• Gather and analyze feedback from internal users to iterate on platform features.
• Documentation & Communication – 10%
• Create and maintain internal documentation for platform capabilities, APIs, and operational practices.
• Communicate changes, new features, and support processes across engineering teams.
• Contribute to onboarding guides and knowledge base articles.
• Tech Stack Exposure
  
  

You don't need to be hands-on every day, but you must understand and influence decisions across the following areas:

• Container Orchestration: Amazon EKS, Helm, ArgoCD
• Serverless: AWS Lambda, AWS ECS, Fargate etc
• Infrastructure & CI/CD: Terraform, GitLab CI, GitOps
• Cloud Services: Broad AWS ecosystem (IAM, CloudWatch, S3, ECS, API Gateway, etc.)
• APIs: REST/gRPC-based APIs, API lifecycle management
• MLOps: Support for ML workflows (e.g., model serving, experiment tracking)
• Security & Governance: RBAC, policy-as-code, least-privilege access
  
  

What We're Looking For

• 5+ years of experience in Product Management, Technical Program Management, or Platform Engineering roles.
• Proven experience working on cloud-native platforms and internal tooling.
• Familiarity with platform architecture and modern DevOps practices.
• Strong communication skills and stakeholder management.
• Experience working in Agile teams and driving product lifecycle end-to-end.
  
  

Nice To Have

• AWS Certification (e.g., Solutions Architect, DevOps Engineer).
• Exposure to MLOps tooling like Kubeflow, MLflow, SageMaker.
• Prior experience in a similar Platform Product Owner role.
  
  

Seniority level

• Seniority level

  Mid-Senior level

Employment type

• Employment type

  Full-time

Job function

• Job function

  Product Management and Marketing

• Industries

  IT Services and IT Consulting

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