Technical Product Owner

Our requirements

• 3–7 years of professional experience as a Technical Product Owner, Product Manager, Value Stream Lead, or similar senior technology role.
• Proven ownership of a technical product, platform or service in a large scale, complex environment.
• Experience with on premises technology platforms, preferably across Linux and mainframe environments.
• Strong understanding of product ownership principles throughout the full lifecycle — from roadmap definition to continuous improvement.
• Hands on experience managing backlogs, epics and user stories, with well defined acceptance criteria and prioritisation of technical debt.
• Ability to lead and coordinate cross functional teams, manage capacity and dependencies to deliver agreed outcomes.
• Practical knowledge of operational processes — incident, problem and change management, monitoring, resilience and continuity.
• Solid grasp of risk, control, audit and compliance principles, gained preferably in regulated industries.
• Strong stakeholder management and communication skills with the ability to translate between technical and business contexts.
• Proactive, pragmatic and delivery oriented, with a focus on achieving measurable outcomes.

Optional

• Familiarity with enterprise scheduling, workflow orchestration, and batch automation capabilities.
• Hands on experience with BMC Control M and/or IBM Workload Scheduler (IWS).
• Understanding of mainframe scheduling concepts — job dependencies, calendars, alerts and recovery procedures.
• Knowledge of integration patterns, APIs, file based and event driven interfaces.
• Experience working with Agile or Lean delivery frameworks.
• Ability to define and track OKRs, KPIs and service health metrics.
• Background within financial services or regulated enterprise environments.

Your responsibilities

• Own the vision, roadmap, and target outcomes for the Scheduling and Workload Automation (SWA) capability across build, run, and continuous improvement.
• Manage demand intake and prioritisation, balancing feature delivery, resilience, service improvements, and technical debt.
• Represent user and stakeholder needs from engineering, operations, and scheduling communities in product planning and decision making.
• Define and track measurable outcomes, including OKRs, KPIs and SLAs to demonstrate value and performance.
• Translate requirements into clear epics, user stories, acceptance criteria and non functional specifications.
• Drive cross functional collaboration with engineering, architecture, infrastructure and service management teams to deliver roadmap commitments.
• Oversee platform lifecycle management, including upgrades, migrations, onboarding and integration activities.
• Collaborate with operations and service management to improve incident, problem and change management performance.
• Lead initiatives to enhance automation, self service, reliability, capacity and resilience of batch and workload environments.
• Identify and manage dependencies and risks across enterprise platforms, applications and stakeholders.
• Ensure aligned governance with risk, security and compliance frameworks, including controls and resilience standards.
• Shape and continuously improve the operating model and ways of working for managing SWA capabilities effectively.
• Note: Detailed project information will be shared during the recruitment process.

About the project

This is how we organize our work

This is how we work on a project

• Continuous Deployment
• Continuous Integration

What we offer

• Flexible cooperation model – choose the form that suits you best (B2B, employment contract, etc.)
• Hybrid work setup – 6 days a month from the office in Kraków
• Collaborative team culture – work alongside experienced professionals eager to share knowledge
• Continuous development – access to training platforms and growth opportunities
• Comprehensive benefits – including Interpolska Health Care, Multisport card, Warta Insurance, and more
• High quality equipment – laptop and essential software provided

Benefits

• sharing the costs of sports activities
• private medical care
• sharing the costs of professional training & courses
• life insurance

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