Senior Technical Product Owner (Banking)

Responsibilities: — Own the technical backlog including enablers, architectural runway items, non-functional requirements, technical debt, platform and API features. — Validate and compose the backlog for each team served; keep it refined and ready for upcoming sprints. — Prepare sprints including Definition of Ready, sprint scope proposal, and sprint goal; validate scope against capacity and dependencies. — Manage delivery of the backlog by tracking plan versus actual for backlog, sprints, and releases; identify deviations early and coordinate corrective actions. — Clarify technical questions during refinement and sprints; route design questions to the architect. — Communicate and align architecture decisions with the architect; initiate Architecture Decision Records (ADRs) for approval. — Participate in integration specifications including requirements input, clarification, review, and sign-off. — Translate architecture decisions and ADRs into backlog items with measurable acceptance criteria. — Act as product owner for APIs consumed by other teams, managing API roadmap, versioning, deprecation policy, and consumer onboarding. — Balance business and technical capacity with the Product Owner; justify technical items by risk, cost of delay, and quality attributes. — Collect non-functional requirements (NFR) input from business constraints and SLAs; convert architect's target values into backlog items. — Track and prioritize technical debt based on impact on delivery speed, incidents, and compliance. — Define acceptance criteria for technical stories and enablers and accept them. — Prepare enablers for Program Increment (PI) Planning including decomposition, sizing input, and dependency mapping. — Coordinate cross-team technical dependencies with Release Train Engineer (RTE) and other teams. — Align architectural runway with Solution Architect and enterprise architecture governance. — Plan security, CI/CD, and observability work into the backlog with InfoSec and DevOps/platform teams. — Maintain backlog, decisions, and specifications in Jira and Confluence. — Measure technical health using flow metrics, defect trends, technical debt ratio, and Service Level Objective (SLO) compliance. — Communicate technical priorities and trade-offs to business and technical stakeholders. — Operate within SAFe on a PI planning horizon. — Contribute reusable artefacts such as enabler templates, NFR checklists, and API lifecycle guidelines. — Mentor Product Owners and analysts on technical backlog practices. Requirements: — 5+ years in software engineering, systems analysis, or architecture, including 2+ years as Technical Product Owner or Product Owner of platform, API, or integration products. — Senior level with client-facing skills. — Experience in banking or financial services domain is a strong plus. — Hands-on understanding of distributed systems including REST API design and versioning, message brokers, and event-driven integration. — Proficiency in backlog management including enablers and technical stories with acceptance criteria, prioritization techniques such as WSJF and cost of delay. — Delivery management skills including sprint preparation, release planning, and plan vs. actual tracking in Jira. — Ability to read and challenge solution architecture including monolith, modular monolith, and microservices. — Knowledge of non-functional requirements, quality attributes, and SLO/SLA definitions. — Technical debt management practices. — Experience with Agile and SAFe frameworks and backlog management in Jira and Confluence. — English proficiency at B2+ level. Preferred Qualifications: — Finance or banking business domain experience, integrations with core banking systems. — SAFe certification. — Familiarity with OpenAPI, API management platforms, and contract testing. — Awareness of Kubernetes, Kafka or RabbitMQ, and CI/CD pipelines. — Experience with regulated domains and compliance such as GDPR and PCI DSS. — Ability to conduct case-based sessions to decompose business initiatives into enablers and technical stories with acceptance criteria. — Skills in preparing clarification questions on technical scope for clients and driving them to closure. — Supporting Solution Architects and engineers during estimation and optimization sessions. — Participation in discovery sessions and workshops with client stakeholders. Benefits: — Opportunities for professional self-realization and growth. — Friendly team environment. — 25 days of paid vacation. — Medical insurance and full payment for sick leave. — Professional training and certification at company expense. — Foreign language courses and other corporate programs. — Various corporate events. — Bonuses for weddings or childbirth. — Possibility of remote work from any location.