Platform Product Owner: Cloud & CI/CD Enablement

Stifel Financial Corp.; St. Louis (MO); On-site; USD 110,000 - 170,000; Full time

Job summary

Stifel Financial Corp. in St. Louis seeks a Technical Product Owner to own the backlog for shared platform capabilities, including CI/CD, cloud infrastructure, and developer self-service tooling.

You will translate requirements into actionable technical user stories, partnering with Cloud Platform Engineering, security, and architecture to define and prioritize capabilities for secure, reliable delivery. The role operates ahead by two to four sprints to ensure quality outcomes.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in CS/IS/Engineering or related field.
• 5+ years in product ownership, product management, business analysis, or software engineering.
• Experience in Agile, Scrum, or SAFe environments and supporting infrastructure, DevOps, or cloud engineering teams.

Responsibilities

• Own and refine the platform backlog, balancing developer experience, security, reliability, and scalability.
• Translate platform capabilities and guardrails into clear, well-defined technical user stories and enablers.
• Collaborate with Product Managers to define platform outcomes, success metrics, and roadmap alignment.
• Ensure backlog items are right-sized, sprint-ready, with production-ready stories for planning.
• Support platform demos, release communications, and engineering enablement efforts.

Skills

Analytical thinking

Prioritization

Technical storytelling

Cross-functional collaboration

Cloud concepts

Education

Bachelor's degree in Computer Science or related field

Tools

Terraform

AWS

Job description

Stifel Financial Corp. in St. Louis seeks a Technical Product Owner to own the backlog for shared platform capabilities, including CI/CD, cloud infrastructure, and developer self-service tooling.

You will translate requirements into actionable technical user stories, partnering with Cloud Platform Engineering, security, and architecture to define and prioritize capabilities for secure, reliable delivery. The role operates ahead by two to four sprints to ensure quality outcomes.