Senior Technical Product Owner (Banking)

November 14, 2026

Remote

Senior

Минск, Беларусь

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Description

The Senior Technical Product Owner owns and drives the technical backlog for distributed, integration-heavy platform and API teams. The role works with Product Owners, architects, Tech Leads, Scrum Masters, and release train stakeholders to prepare delivery, coordinate dependencies, and track technical outcomes within SAFe.

Responsibilities

Own the technical backlog, including enablers, architectural runway items, non-functional requirements, technical debt, platform features, and API features
Validate and compose the backlog for each supported team, keeping it refined and ready for upcoming sprints
Prepare team sprints by defining readiness, proposing scope and goals, and validating scope against capacity and dependencies
Manage backlog delivery by tracking plans against actuals for backlogs, sprints, and releases, surfacing deviations early, and agreeing corrective actions with the PO, Tech Lead, and RTE
Clarify technical questions during refinement and sprints, routing design questions to the architect
Communicate and align architecture decisions with the architect, initiating ADRs for approval by the architect and architecture board
Contribute requirements input, clarification, review, and sign-off to integration specifications while the System Analyst owns the details
Translate architecture decisions and ADRs into backlog items with measurable acceptance criteria
Own APIs consumed by other teams, including their roadmaps, versioning, deprecation policies, and consumer onboarding; API contracts are designed by the architect or System Analyst
Balance business and technical capacity with the Product Owner and justify technical items by risk, cost of delay, and quality attributes
Collect NFR input from business constraints and SLAs and turn architect-defined targets for latency, throughput, availability, RPO/RTO, and security controls into backlog items with measurable acceptance criteria
Track and prioritize technical debt based on its impact on delivery speed, incidents, and compliance
Define acceptance criteria for technical stories and enablers, then accept the completed work
Prepare enablers for PI Planning, including decomposition, sizing input, and dependency maps
Coordinate cross-team technical dependencies with the RTE and other release train teams
Align the architectural runway with the Solution Architect and enterprise architecture governance
Plan security, CI/CD, and observability work into the backlog with InfoSec and DevOps or platform teams
Maintain the backlog, decisions, and specifications in Jira and Confluence
Measure and report technical health using flow metrics, defect trends, technical debt ratio, and SLO compliance
Support stakeholder engagement and the Agile delivery stream
Communicate technical priorities and trade-offs to business and technical stakeholders
Work 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 a Technical Product Owner or Product Owner for a platform, API, or integration product
Senior-level experience with client-facing skills
Banking or financial services domain experience is a plus
Hands-on understanding of distributed systems, REST API design and versioning, message brokers, and event-driven integration
Experience managing backlogs with enablers, technical stories, acceptance criteria, and prioritization techniques such as WSJF and cost of delay
Delivery management experience covering sprint preparation, release planning, and plan-versus-actual tracking and forecasting in Jira
Ability to read and challenge solution architecture, including trade-offs among monoliths, modular monoliths, and microservices
Knowledge of non-functional requirements, quality attributes, and SLO and SLA definition
Knowledge of technical debt management practices
Experience with Agile and SAFe frameworks and backlog management in Jira and Confluence
English proficiency at B2 level or higher
Finance or banking business domain experience, including integrations with core banking systems, is preferred
SAFe certification is preferred
Knowledge of OpenAPI, API management platforms, and contract testing is preferred
Awareness of Kubernetes, Kafka or RabbitMQ, and CI/CD pipelines is a plus
Experience in regulated domains and familiarity with compliance requirements such as GDPR and PCI DSS are preferred
Ability to run a case-based session and decompose a business initiative into enablers and technical stories with acceptance criteria
Ability to prepare technical-scope clarification questions for clients and drive them to resolution
Ability to decompose technical scope into features and enablers with acceptance criteria to support estimation
Ability to support Solution Architects and engineers during estimation and optimization sessions and verify estimates against documented requirements
Experience participating in discovery sessions and workshops with client stakeholders