Technical Product Owner

Solid Company; Kraków; Hybrid; PLN 180,000 - 240,000; Full time

Job summary

Solid Company is seeking aTechnical Product Owner/Product Manager to own the vision and roadmap for Scheduling and Workload Automation across critical enterprise systems. You will coordinate with cross-functional teams to balance new features with technical debt and drive improvements.

You will define epics, user stories, acceptance criteria, and non-functional requirements while ensuring security, compliance, and incident management readiness.

Qualifications

• 3–7 years of experience as a Technical Product Owner or similar senior technology delivery role.
• Proven experience owning a technical product, platform, or service in a large-scale, complex environment.
• Experience with traditional on-premises technology, ideally Linux, mainframe, or other critical enterprise systems.
• Strong knowledge of product ownership, roadmap development, demand management, backlog prioritisation, and continuous improvement.
• Experience defining epics, user stories, acceptance criteria, and managing technical debt.
• Experience coordinating cross-functional teams, capacity, and dependencies.
• Understanding of production operations, incident and change management, monitoring, resilience, and service continuity.
• Experience working in a regulated or control-focused environment, with risk, audit, security, and compliance.
• Strong stakeholder management, communication, and decision-making skills.
• Fluent in English and Polish

Responsibilities

• Own the product vision, roadmap, and lifecycle for Scheduling and Workload Automation.
• Manage stakeholder demand, prioritise the backlog, and balance new features with technical debt and service improvements.
• Define epics, user stories, acceptance criteria, and non-functional requirements.
• Collaborate with engineering, architecture, infrastructure, operations, and service management teams.
• Monitor and improve platform reliability, resilience, capacity, and operational performance.
• Support incident, problem, and change management, including major incident reviews.
• Oversee platform upgrades, migrations, integrations, and onboarding of new workloads.
• Define and track KPIs, OKRs, and SLAs to measure service performance.
• Identify dependencies and risks and ensure compliance with security, risk, and regulatory requirements.
• Develop standards, automation, self-service capabilities, and effective operating models.

Skills

Product ownership

Roadmap development

Backlog prioritisation

Cross-functional collaboration

Stakeholder management

Communication

English and Polish fluency

Tools

Linux

Mainframe

On-premises systems

Job description

Project

Join the Enterprise Integration Platform team responsible for Scheduling and Workload Automation (SWA) across Linux, mainframe, and other enterprise environments.

You will

• Own the product vision, roadmap, and lifecycle for Scheduling and Workload Automation
• Manage stakeholder demand, prioritise the backlog, and balance new features with technical debt and service improvements
• Define epics, user stories, acceptance criteria, and non-functional requirements
• Collaborate with engineering, architecture, infrastructure, operations, and service management teams
• Monitor and improve platform reliability, resilience, capacity, and operational performance
• Support incident, problem, and change management, including major incident reviews and remediation tracking
• Oversee platform upgrades, migrations, integrations, and onboarding of new workloads
• Define and track KPIs, OKRs, and SLAs to measure service performance
• Identify dependencies and risks and ensure compliance with security, risk, and regulatory requirements
• Develop standards, automation, self-service capabilities, and effective operating models

Kogo poszukujemy?

Must have

• 3–7 years of experience as a Technical Product Owner, Product Manager, Value Stream Lead, or in a similar senior technology delivery role
• Proven experience owning a technical product, platform, or service in a large-scale, complex environment
• Experience with traditional on-premises technology, ideally Linux, mainframe, or other critical enterprise systems
• Strong knowledge of product ownership, roadmap development, demand management, backlog prioritisation, and continuous improvement
• Experience defining epics, user stories, acceptance criteria, and managing technical debt
• Experience coordinating cross-functional teams, capacity, and dependencies
• Understanding of production operations, incident and change management, monitoring, resilience, and service continuity
• Experience working in a regulated or control-focused environment, with an understanding of risk, audit, security, and compliance
• Strong stakeholder management, communication, and decision-making skills
• Fluent in English and Polish

Nice to have

• Experience with enterprise scheduling, workload automation, workflow orchestration, or batch processing
• Knowledge of BMC Control-M and/or IBM Workload Scheduler (IWS)
• Understanding of mainframe scheduling, batch workloads, job dependencies, calendars, alerts, and recovery