Technical Product Owner

TEKsystems; Dayton (OH); Hybrid; USD 76,000 - 90,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Medical, dental & vision

401(k) Retirement Plan

Life Insurance

Disability coverage

Time Off

Job summary

TEKsystems is seeking a Sr. Technical Product Owner to own the end-to-end EDB data platform, spanning Vault ETL and KEL Cosmos-backed APIs. The role emphasizes disciplined requirements discovery, cross-team coordination, and protecting engineering from unstructured requests.

The successful candidate will lead stakeholders across upstream data teams and downstream consumers, with a focus on data quality, schemas, and operational needs, in a hybrid Dayton, OH environment.

Qualifications

• Sr-level experience owning a technical platform, data product, API product, or integration platform.
• Strong requirements discovery and stakeholder-management skills.
• Able to turn ambiguous requests into clear outcomes, acceptance criteria, dependencies, and measurable expectations.
• Experience coordinating delivery across multiple engineering and external stakeholder teams.
• Enough technical fluency to understand ETL, data schemas, contracts, quality, freshness, volume, and lineage; APIs and Cosmos DB concepts.

Responsibilities

• Serve as the primary product contact for upstream data teams, downstream consumers, Vault, and KEL.
• Solicit, clarify, challenge, and mature requirements before refinement.
• Own and order the integrated EDB backlog across Vault and KEL.
• Coordinate dependencies, sequencing, milestones, and customer expectations across all teams.
• Ensure requirements cover data quality, schema changes, volume, freshness, compatibility, security, migration, and operational needs.
• Own customer-facing intake and triage: understand impact, route issues, communicate status, and confirm closure.
• Buffer engineering from unstructured external requests.
• Ensure external documentation, release communications, and onboarding materials are business-friendly.
• Establish accountability around delayed specifications, dependencies, and customer inputs.
• Validate that delivered work achieves end-to-end EDB customer outcomes.

Skills

Product Owner

Azure Cosmos DB

NoSQL

End-to-end data platform ownership

Job description

Description

Manager is open to 100% remote candidates for a Technical Product Owner who has preferred experience/ exposure to Azure Cosmos DB, though being hybrid in Dayton, OH 2 days a week on-site would be preference.

We need a Sr. Technical Product Owner who can own EDB as one end-to-end data platform, spanning Vault ETL and KEL's Cosmos-backed customer APIs. They must be technically fluent enough to ask the right questions and challenge unrealistic requirements, but they will not own architecture or implementation. Their primary value is disciplined requirements discovery, integrated prioritization, cross-team coordination, customer-facing accountability, and protecting engineering teams from unstructured operational and stakeholder noise.

Role purpose

EDB is the combined platform spanning:

• Vault: ETL, orchestration, processing, validation, and delivery of incoming data.
• KEL: Normalization of that data into customer-facing entities exposed through Cosmos-backed APIs/shells.

What the PO will own

• Serve as the primary product contact for upstream data teams, downstream consumers, Vault, and KEL.
• Solicit, clarify, challenge, and mature requirements before bringing them into refinement.
• Own and order the integrated EDB backlog across Vault and KEL.
• Coordinate dependencies, sequencing, milestones, and customer expectations across all involved teams.
• Ensure requirements cover data quality, schema changes, volume, freshness, compatibility, security, migration, and operational needs.
• Own customer-facing intake and triage: understand impact, route issues to the correct technical team, communicate status, and confirm closure.
• Act as a buffer for engineering so technical teams are not constantly interrupted by unstructured external requests.
• Ensure external documentation, release communication, and onboarding material exist and are business-friendly.
• Establish accountability around repeatedly delayed specifications, dependencies, and customer inputs.
• Validate that delivered work achieves the complete EDB customer outcome-not merely that Vault or KEL completed its individual component.

Skills and experience needed

• Sr-level experience owning a technical platform, data product, API product, or integration platform.
• Strong requirements discovery and stakeholder-management skills.
• Ability to turn ambiguous requests into clear outcomes, acceptance criteria, dependencies, and measurable expectations.
• Experience coordinating delivery across multiple engineering and external stakeholder teams.
• Enough technical fluency to understand and question:
  • ETL and distributed data-processing workflows.
  • Data schemas, contracts, quality, freshness, volume, and lineage.
  • APIs and downstream consumer compatibility.
  • Cosmos DB concepts such as throughput, partitioning, indexing, throttling, consistency, scale, and cost.
  • Operational and reliability implications of customer requirements.
• Ability to identify when a seemingly simple request needs technical review.
• Confident, diplomatic, and persistent-capable of building relationships first, but driving accountability and escalating when necessary.
• Strong customer-facing communication, including the ability to explain trade-offs and deliver a well-supported "no" or alternative proposal.

Explicitly not required

The PO does not need to:

• Design the Vault or KEL architecture.
• Choose Cosmos partition keys, provision throughput, or perform database tuning.
• Write Java, build ETL pipelines, or implement APIs.
• Make detailed technical design or implementation decisions.
• Diagnose or remediate production incidents personally.
• Serve as the engineering on-call resource or permanent incident commander.
• Create all technical documentation themselves.
• Manage engineers or determine staffing and capacity allocation.

Decision boundaries

• PO owns: Product outcomes, requirements, backlog priority, stakeholder alignment, customer communication, and end-to-end acceptance.
• Engineering management and technical leads own: Staffing, capacity allocation, architecture, estimates, technical sequencing, implementation, and system operation.

Skills

Product Owner, Azure Cosmos DB, NoSQL, end-to-end ownership of data platform

Experience Level

Intermediate Level

Job Type & Location

This is a Contract position based out of Dayton, OH.

Pay and Benefits

The pay range for this position is $55.00 - $65.00/hr.

Individual compensation offered for this position within this range will depend on many factors, including qualifications, skills, relevant experience, job knowledge, geographic location, internal equity, and other pertinent job-related factors.

Eligibility requirements apply to some benefits and may depend on your job classification and length of employment. Benefits are subject to change and may be subject to specific elections, plan, or program terms. If eligible, the benefits available for this temporary role may include the following:

• Medical, dental & vision
• Critical Illness, Accident, and Hospital
• 401(k) Retirement Plan - Pre‑tax and Roth post‑tax
• Life Insurance (Voluntary Life & AD&D for the employee and dependents)
• Short and long‑term disability
• Health Spending Account (HSA)
• Transportation benefits
• Employee Assistance Program
• Time Off/Leave (PTO, Vacation or Sick Leave)

Workplace Type

This is a hybrid position in Dayton,OH.

Application Deadline

This position is anticipated to close on Aug 25, 2026.

About TEKsystems

We’re partners in transformation. We help clients activate ideas and solutions to take advantage of a new world of opportunity. We are a team of 80,000 strong, working with over 6,000 clients, including 80% of the Fortune 500, across North America, Europe and Asia. As an industry leader in Full-Stack Technology Services, Talent Services, and real-world application, we work with progressive leaders to drive change. That’s the power of true partnership. TEKsystems is an Allegis Group company.

About TEKsystems and TEKsystems Global Services

We’re a leading provider of business and technology services. We accelerate business transformation for our customers. Our expertise in strategy, design, execution and operations unlocks business value through a range of solutions. We’re a team of 80,000 strong, working with over 6,000 customers, including 80% of the Fortune 500 across North America, Europe and Asia, who partner with us for our scale, full-stack capabilities and speed. We’re strategic thinkers, hands‑on collaborators, helping customers capitalize on change and master the momentum of technology. We’re building tomorrow by delivering business outcomes and making positive impacts in our global communities. TEKsystems and TEKsystems Global Services are Allegis Group companies. Learn more at TEKsystems.com.

The company is an equal opportunity employer and will consider all applications without regards to race, sex, age, color, religion, national origin, veteran status, disability, sexual orientation, gender identity, genetic information or any characteristic protected by law.

The company is an equal opportunity employer and will consider all applications without regard to race, sex, age, color, religion, national origin, veteran status, disability, sexual orientation, gender identity, genetic information or any characteristic protected by law.

San Francisco Fair Chance Ordinance: Pursuant to the San Francisco Fair Chance Ordinance, for all positions located in the city and county of San Francisco, we will consider for employment qualified applicants with arrest and conviction records.

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