Lead Technical Product Owner

Royal Mail Group; Greater London; Hybrid; GBP 100,000 - 125,000; Full time

Job summary

A major logistics firm is seeking a Lead Technical Product Owner to guide the evolution of their enterprise-scale Event Processing Platform. This role involves leading technical strategy, managing a technical backlog, and collaborating closely with engineering teams. Ideal candidates will have experience with event-driven systems and streaming technologies like Kafka or Azure Event Hub, as well as strong skills in writing user stories. The position offers great benefits, including a competitive salary and hybrid working opportunities.

Benefits

Competitive salary and car allowance

Healthcare benefits

18% annual bonus potential

Generous leave policy

Company pension scheme

Family friendly support

Qualifications

• Experience leading technical product ownership in high-performance environments.
• Proficient in writing precise technical user stories for developers.
• Strong communication skills to bridge business and engineering.

Responsibilities

• Drive the platform strategy and roadmap for an event processing ecosystem.
• Prioritize and refine a technical backlog.
• Lead and mentor a team of Technical Product Owners.

Skills

Experience in event driven or real time platforms

Deep knowledge of streaming technologies (Kafka, Azure Event Hub)

Strong understanding of APIs and integration patterns

Cloud expertise (Azure, AWS, or GCP)

Ability to write technical user stories

Agile delivery experience with Azure DevOps, Jira, or Confluence

Awareness of AI driven product practices

Tools

Azure DevOps

Jira

Confluence

Job description

Job reference 334905

Lead Technical Product Owner

Competitive salary plus car allowance, healthcare, 18% annual bonus potential, 25 days annual leave plus bank holidays rising with service and a company pension scheme with highly competitive contribution rates

Permanent, Full time

Hybrid Working London Farringdon Office x3 days a week

Lead Technical Product Owner - Event Processing Platform

Ready to shape the core technology that powers real time business operations? We're looking for a Lead Technical Product Owner to drive the evolution of our enterprise scale Event Processing Platform-a mission critical foundation for our event driven architecture.

This is a role for someone who thrives in highly technical environments. You'll define how interfaces, contracts, and integration points come together to create a resilient, scalable platform. You'll partner closely with engineering and architecture teams, guide business stakeholders through complex technical concepts, and set the gold standard for how technical user stories are written.

If you're passionate about event driven systems, cloud technologies, and using AI to elevate product delivery, this is an opportunity to lead from the front.

What You'll Own

• Platform strategy and roadmap leadership: Drive the long term vision for a high performance, real time event processing ecosystem.
• Technical backlog ownership: Prioritise and refine a deeply technical backlog with clarity, precision, and engineering excellence.
• Standards for technical story writing: Define how interfaces, contracts, and integration points are documented-no visual UX, all technical depth.
• AI enabled product practices: Champion AI tools to improve backlog refinement, delivery flow, and team efficiency.
• Stakeholder alignment: Translate complex business needs into actionable technical deliverables.
• Hands on technical leadership: Influence system design, event schemas, and integration patterns across Kafka, Azure Event Hub, and more.
• Team leadership and mentoring: Lead and develop a team of Technical Product Owners, driving consistency and excellence.
• Agile delivery and governance: Facilitate key ceremonies and ensure compliance with security and data governance standards.
• Continuous improvement: Define KPIs and optimise event workflows for resilience and efficiency.

What You Bring

• Experience in event driven or real time platforms
• Deep knowledge of streaming technologies such as Kafka or Azure Event Hub
• Strong understanding of APIs, contracts, and integration patterns
• Cloud expertise across Azure, AWS, or GCP
• Ability to write precise, technical user stories
• Agile delivery experience with tools like Azure DevOps, Jira, or Confluence
• Awareness of AI driven product practices

Preferred Qualifications

• Background in software engineering or architecture
• Logistics or supply chain domain knowledge
• Experience with observability, CI/CD, and DevOps

Who You Are

• Highly technical and detail oriented
• A strong communicator who bridges business and engineering
• A confident leader with team management experience
• Comfortable in fast moving, evolving environments
• An innovator who embraces AI in product management

If you're excited by the idea of building the invisible infrastructure that keeps real time operations running-and leading a team that sets the standard for technical product ownership-we'd love to meet you.

Extra Benefits

Family friendly support - enhanced maternity pay, paternity leave, adoption leave and shared parental leave
Discounts and offers - there are more than 800 offers to help you save on things like groceries, days out, holidays and your household bills*.
Supportive and generous company sick pay
Your Wellbeing - you and your family have 24/7 access to services and tools to help you get the most out of life. From your physical and mental health to financial and social support and advice. It's free, and it's for everyone.
*Available only to perm employees

Next Steps

The next stage of the selection process will be a face to face/virtual interview consisting of competency based and role specific questions.

Trust is the foundation of Royal Mail. We aim to be transparent about the qualities we seek and what a career with us entails, building trust from the start of your journey with us. Your interview is the first step, and we want you to shine. To help you prepare, we'll provide your interview questions in advance, so you can have your best examples ready. At Royal Mail Group, we value trust and our people.

We understand that candidates may not meet all the criteria for the role. If your experience is different, but you have relevant skills we'd love to hear from you.

Royal Mail Group is committed to inclusion and representing the diverse communities we serve. We welcome applications from all individuals. As a proud Gold signatory to the Armed Forces Covenant, we especially encourage applications from the Armed Forces community, including cadet instructors and spouses/partners.

We are committed to ensuring an inclusive recruitment process. If you require any adjustments to support you during the hiring process, please discuss these with your recruiter when contacted.

We are Forces family friendly and a Gold signatory to the Armed Forces Covenant. We welcome applications from ex-Armed Forces personnel, reservists, veterans, cadet instructors and military spouses/partners.

For more information on Royal Mail Group and our values please click here: https://www.internationaldistributionsservices.com/en/about-us/

Closing Date: 30th January 2026. Please note, this advert may close early if the appropriate number of applications has been reached.

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