Technical Product Owner

ASA Recruitment; Glasgow; Hybride; GBP 112 000 - 147 000; Plein temps

Résumé du poste

ASA Recruitment’s client, a Public Sector organisation in Glasgow (hybrid working), seeks a Technical Product Owner to provide technical leadership and delivery capability for a newly implemented platform supporting legislative and business needs. Initial six-month contract with extensions, rate up to £700/day outside IR35 based on experience.

The role embeds into an existing delivery team, working with the Technical Lead to own architecture, strategy and roadmap, while ensuring stability,

Qualifications

• Experienced Technical Product Owner with strong leadership and delivery capability.
• Proficient in AWS architectures, IaC and Kubernetes (AWS EKS).
• Knowledge of MySQL-compatible databases (MySQL/RDS/Aurora/MariaDB).
• Experience with CI/CD pipelines and tooling (Helm, Terragrunt, Git, ArgoCD).
• Familiar with Government Cloud Security standards (NIST/OWASP/CIS/NCSC).
• Proficient in Bash and Python; RESTful microservices; ITSM processes.

Responsabilités

• Provide technical leadership and ownership within a delivery team.
• Lead design, implementation, administration and support of infrastructure solutions.
• Advise on future tech changes and opportunities for the product.
• Interact with code and contribute to scripting and automation.
• Drive data-driven decision making and stakeholder communication.
• Collaborate on strategy, roadmaps and cross-government communities.

Outils

AWS architectures

Kubernetes on AWS EKS

MySQL-compatible DBs

CI/CD

Helm

Terragrunt

Git

ArgoCD

Bash

Python

RESTful microservices

IT Service Management

NIST

OWASP

CIS

NCSC

Description du poste

ASA Recruitment’s client, a Public Sector organisation in Glasgow (hybrid working), are currently looking to recruit a Technical Product Owner, for an initial 6 month contract (with potential extensions) on a rate of up to £700/day outside of IR35 (based on experience).

The Role:

• Technical Product Owner required to provide technical leadership, mentorship and delivery capability to an established team tasked with supporting and maintaining a newly implemented platform to meet our client’s legislative and long-term business needs.
• The specialist will be expected to be embedded into a current delivery team and will provide technical ownership in conjunction with the existing Technical Lead within a small team.
• We are looking for an exceptional Technical Product Owner with a good balance of technical understanding and strong leadership skills who have proven experience in the development, deployment and support of services built on a track record of stability, availability and quality

Responsibilities:

• IT infrastructure: lead teams and departments in the design, implementation, administration and support of infrastructure solutions and services
• Ownership and initiative: take accountability for issues that occur and be proactive in searching for potential problems and achieve excellent user outcomes
• Technical understanding: anticipate and advise on future technology changes that present opportunities for the product or programme
• Coding and scripting: interact with, read and write code
• Managing product outcomes: advocate for data-driven decision making
• Product leadership: seek opportunities for reuse and learning across your organisation, represent product management in your area in conversations with senior stakeholders, protect teams, for example, from unnecessary distractions and requests to change direction and lead some product management community activities and participate in cross-government communities
• Product management: set the strategy and vision for your products, collaborating with others and create a prioritised roadmap for your products and use it to discuss product strategy at all levels
• Stakeholder relationship management: identify and resolve issues, influence stakeholders and manage relationships effectively, build long-term strategic relationships and communicate clearly and regularly with stakeholders
• Strategic ownership: ensure that the vision and strategy deliver the intended benefits and policy intent, and use evidence to challenge this when needed, work with stakeholders to get agreement on the strategic approach, build trust and adapt based on feedback, proactively review and iterate the strategy based on user and organisation insights

Experience:

• Highly experienced Technical Product Owner
• Best Practice AWS Architectures (i.e. Immutable Infrastructure, IaC, Ephemeral Infrastructure, Kubernetes on AWS EKS)
• MySQL compatible DBs: MySQL, RDS, Aurora, MariaDB
• Build Pipeline automation, CI/CD
• Build Tooling: Helm, Terragrunt, Git, ArgoCD
• Government Cloud Security standards (NIST, OWASP, CIS, NCSC etc…)
• BASH, Python
• RESTful microservices
• IT Service Management