Product Owner

Summary:

• Location: Fort Worth, TX
• Duration: 6 Months Contract

Responsibilities:

• Define and communicate a compelling technical product vision. Develop and manage roadmaps for platforms and systems, ensuring alignment with enterprise architecture, business objectives, and long-term sustainability.
• Operate as the primary liaison between engineering, architecture, and business stakeholders to translate business needs into technical requirements and ensure alignment across teams.
• Ensure compliance with the company's data governance policies, and applicable privacy laws and regulations.
• Lead backlog refinement and prioritization for technical features, platform enhancements, and infrastructure capabilities. Balance technical debt, scalability, and business value.
• Gather insights from internal users and stakeholders to identify pain points and opportunities to translate feedback into actionable technical solutions.
• Partner with engineering, architecture, and design teams to ensure successful delivery of technical products and facilitate decision-making and remove roadblocks.
• Define and track technical KPIs and OKRs that measure platform performance, reliability, and business impact. Use data to inform decisions and drive continuous improvement.
• Mentor Product Owners and team members, fostering growth in technical product management practices and agile methodologies.
• Stay ahead of industry trends, emerging technologies, and best practices. Drive innovation in platform capabilities and technical product offerings.
• Ensure technical products align with architectural standards, enterprise priorities, and long-term strategic goals. Make trade-offs that optimize for scalability and sustainability.

Requirements:

• Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Engineering, Information Systems, or a related technical field (or equivalent experience).
• Minimum 3 years of experience in product ownership or technical product management, with a strong track record of delivering complex technical solutions.
• Proven experience working in Agile environments and collaborating with engineering and architecture teams.
• Deep understanding of platform development, SQL, data design principles, APIs, cloud infrastructure, and enterprise systems.

Preferred Skills:

• SQL / Minimum 2 years
• Project Management / Minimum 3 years
• User Story Writing / Minimum 1 year
• Requirements Development / Minimum 1 year
• Snowflake / Minimum 1 year