Product Owner

NordHR; Port Morris (NJ); Hybrid; USD 140,000 - 190,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Hybrid working model

Private healthcare

Life insurance

Training and certification

Career development

International exposure

Modern office

Job summary

NordHR is seeking a technical Product Owner to lead AWS Cloud Landing Zone Services for a global financial organization with a strong tech focus. You will blend product strategy with hands-on cloud engineering, guiding Terraform and IaC while shaping platform architecture, security, and performance.

In this role you’ll own the roadmap, collaborate with Enterprise Architecture, Security, and Operations, and drive platform standardization, automation, and cost efficiency across multi-cloud

Qualifications

• 8+ years of Cloud Engineering experience.
• 3+ years in Product Owner, Platform Owner, Technical Lead, Lead Engineer, or Architect roles.
• Experience operating enterprise-scale cloud platforms.
• Experience working within Agile delivery models.
• Experience managing technical roadmaps and backlogs.

Responsibilities

• Own the roadmap and vision for AWS.
• Prioritize platform capabilities balancing business demand, security, compliance, and technical debt.
• Define and track KPIs, adoption metrics, reliability targets, and customer satisfaction.
• Present roadmap, risks, and achievements to senior leadership and governance forums.
• Actively contribute to Terraform and IaC development.
• Conduct code reviews and pull request approvals.
• Review and challenge technical designs and implementation approaches.
• Support engineering teams with solution design, troubleshooting, and decisions.
• Contribute to CI/CD pipelines, platform standards, and reusable modules.
• Ensure services meet security, resilience, and compliance requirements.
• Participate in major incident reviews and platform improvement initiatives.
• Partner with Enterprise Architecture, Security, Risk, and Operations teams.
• Drive standardization and simplification of cloud platform services.
• Evolve Landing Zone to support AI, Data, Kubernetes, Serverless, and Developer Platforms.
• Engage with AWS on roadmap alignment.
• Identify opportunities for optimization, automation, and cost reduction.
• Build relationships across engineering, application, security, architecture, and business teams.
• Gather platform consumer feedback and translate into roadmap priorities.
• Drive consensus and decision-making across multiple stakeholders.
• Represent Cloud Engineering in governance, transformation, and audit activities.

Skills

Product Ownership

Cloud Engineering

Agile Delivery

Stakeholder Management

Strategic Thinking

Communication

Team Leadership

Tools

Terraform

GitHub

Kubernetes

Job description

Job Offers

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We are looking for an experienced and technically strong Product Owner for our client – an international financial organization with a strong technology focus.

You’ll lead the evolution of AWS Cloud Landing Zone Services, combining Product Ownership with hands-on Cloud Engineering. The role covers product strategy, roadmap, technical delivery, architecture, Terraform and platform automation.

What You’ll be doing:

Product Ownership

• Own the roadmap and vision for AWS.
• Prioritize platform capabilities balancing business demand, security, compliance, and technical debt.
• Maintain and prioritize the product backlog in collaboration with Cloud PM.
• Define and track KPIs, adoption metrics, reliability targets, and customer satisfaction.
• Present roadmap, risks, and achievements to senior leadership and governance forums.
• Actively contribute to Terraform and IaC development.
• Conduct code reviews and pull request approvals.
• Review and challenge technical designs and implementation approaches.
• Support engineering teams with solution design, troubleshooting, and decisions.
• Contribute to CI/CD pipelines, platform standards, and reusable modules.
• Ensure services meet security, resilience, and compliance requirements.
• Participate in major incident reviews and platform improvement initiatives.

Platform Strategy & Architecture

• Partner with Enterprise Architecture, Security, Risk, and Operations teams.
• Drive standardization and simplification of cloud platform services.
• Evolve the Landing Zone to support AI, Data, Kubernetes, Serverless, and Developer Platforms.
• Engage with AWS on roadmap alignment.
• Identify opportunities for optimization, automation, and cost reduction.

Stakeholder Management

• Build relationships across engineering, application, security, architecture, and business teams.
• Gather platform consumer feedback and translate it into roadmap priorities.
• Drive consensus and decision-making across multiple stakeholders.
• Represent Cloud Engineering in governance, transformation, and audit activities.

Accountability

• Product vision and roadmap.
• Product backlog prioritization.
• Platform adoption and customer satisfaction.
• Delivery of planned capabilities.
• Platform reliability and resilience.
• Security and compliance alignment.
• Technical quality of platform changes.
• Engineering governance and code review quality.

Profile and experience:

• 8+ years of Cloud Engineering experience.
• 3+ years of Product Owner, Platform Owner, Technical Lead, Lead Engineer, or Architect experience.
• Experience operating enterprise-scale cloud platforms.
• Experience working within Agile delivery models.
• Experience managing technical roadmaps and backlogs.

Technical Skills

• Terraform
• Infrastructure as Code
• GitHub or Git-based development workflows
• Pull Request reviews
• Cloud security controls
• Kubernetes and container platforms
• Networking and cloud connectivity
• Identity and Access Management
• Observability and monitoring tooling

Leadership Skills

• Strong communication and influencing skills.
• Strategic mindset with hands-on execution capability.
• Ability to challenge and drive decisions across senior stakeholders.
• Strong analytical and problem-solving skills.

Success in this role will be measured by:

• Increased consumption of Landing Zone services.
• Delivery of roadmap commitments.
• Reduced platform operational risk.
• Faster onboarding of cloud workloads.
• Increased automation and self-service adoption.
• Reduced technical debt.
• Positive audit and compliance outcomes.
• High engineering quality and code review standards.

This is not a traditional Product Owner position.

We are looking for a technical Product Owner who can:

• Define strategy in the morning.
• Prioritize backlog items at lunch.
• Review Terraform pull requests in the afternoon.
• Challenge architectural decisions before the end of the day.

The successful candidate will operate as a product leader, cloud architect, and senior engineer, ensuring the Cloud Landing Zone remains a secure, scalable, and developer-friendly platform that accelerates the organization’s multi-cloud strategy.

The offer:

• Hybrid working model and flexibility.
• Attractive benefits package.
• Private healthcare and life insurance.
• Multisport / sports benefits.
• Training and professional certification opportunities.
• Career development and continuous learning.
• Work with AWS, Terraform, Kubernetes and modern cloud technologies.
• International and collaborative technology environment.
• Modern, comfortable office designed for collaboration and focused work.
• Strong focus on work-life balance and development.
• Inclusive workplace with diverse teams and international exposure.