Technical product owner in banking

Научсофт; United States; Remote; USD 140,000 - 180,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Remote work from any location

Professional growth & training

Medical insurance

Job summary

Компания Научсофт ищет Senior Technical Product Owner в архитектурную команду. Ваша задача — управление техническим бэклогом: енablers, архитектурный runway, NFR и технический долг, а также развитие API и платформы.

Вы будете готовить спринты, обеспечивать Definition of Ready и согласование scope с зависимостями, а также управлять доставкой backlog и спринтов. Требуется опыт SAFe/Agile, умение работать с клиентами и знание REST API и очередей сообщений.

Qualifications

• Опыт 5+ лет в разработке ПО, анализе систем или архитектуре.
• Не менее 2 лет как TPO/PO платформы, API или интеграций.
• Опыт взаимодействия с клиентами.
• Понимание REST API, версионирования и брокеров сообщений.

Responsibilities

• Владение техническим бэклогом: енablers, архитектурный runway, NFR, технический долг, API/платформа.
• Подготовка спринтов: Definition of Ready, цели спринтов, зависимостей,capacity.
• Обеспечение delivery: сравнение плана и реальности, корректирующие меры с PO/Tech Lead/RTE.
• Участие в интеграционных спецификациях и ADRs, архитектурные решения.

Skills

Backlog management

Distributed systems understanding

SAFe / Agile experience

English communication (B2+)

Tools

Jira

Confluence

Job description

Описание

Nauchsoft is an international IT consulting and software development company. We have been in the IT business for 37 years and continue growing. We are seeking a Senior Technical Product Owner (TPO) to join our architecture team. This role is prospective and has been created in line with the company’s planned team expansion.

Задачи

Own the technical backlog: enablers, architectural runway items, non-functional requirements, technical debt, platform and API features. Validate and compose the backlog for each team the TPO serves; keep it refined and ready for the next sprints. Prepare sprints for the teams: Definition of Ready, sprint scope proposal, sprint goal; validate the scope against capacity and dependencies. Manage delivery of the backlog: plan vs. actual for backlog, sprints and releases; surface deviations early and agree corrective actions with the PO, Tech Lead and RTE. Clarify technical questions for the team during refinement and the sprint; route design questions to the architect. Communicate and align architecture decisions with the architect; initiate ADRs for subsequent approval by the architect and the architecture board. Take part in integration specifications: requirements input, clarification, review and sign-off; the System Analyst owns the detail. Translate architecture decisions and ADRs into backlog items with measurable acceptance criteria. Act as product owner for APIs consumed by other teams: API roadmap, versioning and deprecation policy, consumer onboarding. Contracts are designed by the architect or System Analyst. Balance business and technical capacity with the Product Owner; justify technical items by risk, cost of delay and quality attributes. Collect NFR input from business constraints and SLAs; turn the architect's target values (latency, throughput, availability, RPO/RTO, security controls) into backlog items with measurable acceptance criteria. Track and prioritize technical debt by its impact on delivery speed, incidents and compliance. Define acceptance criteria for technical stories and enablers, and accept them. Prepare enablers for PI Planning: decomposition, sizing input, dependency map. Coordinate cross-team technical dependencies with the RTE and other teams of the release train. Align the architectural runway with the Solution Architect and enterprise architecture governance. Plan security, CI/CD and observability work into the backlog together with InfoSec and DevOps / platform teams. Maintain backlog, decisions and specifications in Jira and Confluence. Measure and report technical health: flow metrics, defect trends, technical debt ratio, SLO compliance. Stakeholder Engagement and Agile Delivery Stream Support. Communicate technical priorities and trade-offs to both business and technical stakeholders. Operate within SAFe on a PI planning horizon. Contribute reusable artefacts: enabler templates, NFR checklists, API lifecycle guidelines. Mentor Product Owners and analysts on technical backlog practices.

Требования

5+ years in software engineering, systems analysis or architecture, including 2+ years as Technical Product Owner or Product Owner of a platform, API or integration product Senior level with client facing skills Hands-on understanding of distributed systems: REST API design and versioning, message brokers, event-driven integration Backlog management: enablers and technical stories with acceptance criteria, prioritization techniques (WSJF, cost of delay) Delivery management: sprint preparation, release planning, plan vs. actual tracking and forecasting in Jira Ability to read and challenge solution architecture: monolith, modular monolith and microservices with their trade-offs Non-functional requirements and quality attributes, SLO / SLA definition Technical debt management practices Agile and SAFe framework and backlog management in Jira and Confluence English is B2+ Ability to run a case-based session: take a business initiative and decompose it into enablers and technical stories with acceptance criteria on the spot Preparing the clarification questions pack on technical scope for the client and driving it to closure. Decomposing technical scope into a feature and enabler list with acceptance criteria to support estimation. Supporting Solution Architects and engineers during estimation and optimization sessions, verifying that the estimated technical scope matches the documented requirements. Participating in discovery sessions and workshops with client stakeholders. Будет плюсом: Banking or financial services domain experience will be a big plus; Finance or Banking Business Domain, integrations with core banking systems; SAFe certification; OpenAPI, API management platforms, contract testing; Awareness of Kubernetes, Kafka or RabbitMQ, CI/CD pipelines is plus as well; Regulated domains and compliance like GDPR, PCI DSS

Условия

• Opportunity for professional self-realization and growth.
• Friendly team.
• 25-days of paid vacation.
• Medical insurance and 100% payment for sick leave.
• Professional training and obtaining certificates at the company's expense.
• Foreign language courses and other corporate programs.
• A variety of corporate events.
• Bonuses in case of wedding or a child’s birth.
• The possibility of remote work from any location.