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.
