Senior Technical Product Owner

We are seeking a highly experienced Senior Technical Product Owner to lead the delivery and lifecycle management of a mission-critical cards transaction switching platform operating across Azure and AWS cloud environments.

This is a pivotal role responsible for owning the technical product vision, translating complex engineering requirements into clear delivery outcomes, and ensuring platform readiness across high-volume, highly regulated environments.

Key Responsibilities

• Own end-to-end product delivery for a vendor-delivered transaction processing platform supporting high-throughput payments workloads.
• Define and maintain clear, unambiguous product requirements, user stories, and functional specifications that translate complex system behaviours into actionable backlog items.
• Lead prioritisation across competing demands including delivery urgency, architectural alignment, vendor dependencies, risk, cost, and operational readiness.
• Own technical delivery roadmaps, environment build planning, and release management across Dev, SIT, Performance, Pre-Production, and Production environments.
• Partner closely with engineering, cloud platform, architecture, and vendor teams to drive high-quality outcomes.
• Influence and challenge technical decisions to ensure compliance, resilience, security alignment, and operational fit.
• Drive Infrastructure-as-Code, automation, and CI/CD outcomes across internal and vendor delivery teams.
• Ensure platform observability and operational readiness, including monitoring, alerting, telemetry, dashboards, and incident preparedness.
• Own product risk, dependency management, stakeholder communication, and delivery reporting.

Key Skills & Experience

• Extensive experience as a Technical Product Owner or Technical Product Manager within complex, vendor-delivered platforms.
• Strong background in payments, card switching, transaction processing, or other high-volume, low-latency systems.
• Proven ability to write high-quality product requirements, system behaviour definitions, and technically detailed user stories.
• Deep experience managing multi-environment delivery and release pipelines in enterprise settings.
• Strong hands-on understanding of Azure and AWS, including:
• Environment provisioning and automation
• VNet / VPC design patterns
• Compute, storage, and networking fundamentals
• Security controls, governance, and failover design
• Experience driving Infrastructure as Code, automation, and CI/CD pipelines.
• Strong observability and operations knowledge, with experience using tools such as AppDynamics, CloudWatch, Grafana, OpenSearch, or similar.
• Demonstrated experience in highly regulated or mission-critical environments where availability, disaster recovery, and security are non-negotiable.
• Strong stakeholder engagement skills with the ability to align cross-functional teams and manage complex vendor relationships.

Desirable

• Experience delivering platforms subject to regulatory, security, or compliance frameworks.
• Background working in large-scale enterprise or financial services environments.
• Ability to balance technical depth with clear communication to both technical and non-technical stakeholders.