Technical Product Owner - Northampton

Job Title: Technical Product Owner - Northampton
Location: Northampton Office - 3 Days on site
Salary/Rate: £352 Daily Inside IR35
Start Date: 31/07/2025
Job Type: 5 Month Contract

We have an exciting opportunity now available with one of our sector-leading consultancy clients! They are currently looking for a skilled Technical Product Owner to join their team for a five-month contract.

Job Responsibilities/Objectives:
Working within the Scaled Agile Framework (SAFe), the Technical Product Owner will:

• Fulfil the role of the SAFe Product Owner within the development team.
• Engage stakeholders to elicit, elaborate and document the full range of requirements
• Translate requirements into Features and User Stories with clearly defined acceptance criteria.
• Own, maintain, refine and prioritise the team backlog with the input from the team.
• Review and accept completed work from the team on behalf of the stakeholders.
• Work closely with Product Managers and Solution Managers to align the backlog to the business strategy and agree the scope of solutions to be developed.
• Keep informed about how the solution is performing and be proactive in driving improvements and fixes.
• Create or contribute to the creation of business process models and workflows.
• Organise, participate and support key SAFe and Product Management processes.

Stakeholder Management and Leadership:
As part of the role the Technical Product Owner will:

• Work with a wide variety of stakeholders to elicit the requirements and demonstrate the solutions.
• Provide direction and leadership to the Scrum and delivery teams.
• Help to set and manage stakeholder expectations both inside and outside of the organisation.
• Collaborate with Product Managers to determine the scope and priority of the capabilities to be delivered.
• Provide consultancy and subject matter expertise across the business, as needed.

Decision-making and Problem Solving:
As part of the role the Technical Product Owner will:

• Make decisions with respect to the operation of the software, in consultation with architects, developers, testers, UX/UI designers to ensure that solutions remain customer-focused and fit for purpose.
• Control, negotiate and carefully manage the solution scope.
• Work closely with Product Managers to resolve or minimise negative commercial or customer impacts.
• Work with Project Managers and other teams, departments and organisations to identify and coordinate delivery dependencies.
• Contribute feedback and ideas to drive continuous improvement.

Required Skills/Experience:
To succeed in this role the Technical Product Owner must have:

• Proven experience as a Technical Product Owner, Software Analyst, Software Design Analyst, Business Analyst, Systems Analyst or similar.
• Expert level understanding of how to elicit and elaborate requirements and translate these into Features and User Stories with clear acceptance criteria.
• Strong technical background and demonstrable business analysis skill set.
• Experience designing, building and delivering software as a service.
• Experience working within a development team on a daily basis.

Desirable Skills/Experience:
Although not essential, the following skills are desired by the client:

• IT related degree or equivalent work experience.
• Experience of working in an agile environment.
• Payments industry experience.
• Experience in delivering highly available services.

If you are interested in this opportunity, please apply now with your updated CV in Microsoft Word/PDF format.

Disclaimer:
Notwithstanding any guidelines given to level of experience sought, we will consider candidates from outside this range if they can demonstrate the necessary competencies.

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