Job Description

Technical Product Owner (Azure)

Location: Remote (prefer CST/EST time zone)

Team: Platform/Data

About the Role

We’re seeking a Technical Product Owner to drive roadmap, delivery, and adoption of capabilities built on Microsoft Azure . You’ll translate business outcomes into technical work, partner with engineering and architecture, and ship secure, observable, and reliable services across data, integration, and application platforms.

What You’ll Do

• Own vision, roadmap, and backlog in Azure DevOps (Features/Epics/Stories), balancing net-new features, tech debt, security, and reliability.
• Shape technical delivery with engineering across:
• Data : Azure Synapse, Azure Databricks (Delta Lake), ADLS Gen2, Azure Data Factory / Synapse Pipelines, Power BI/Fabric.
• Integration : Azure API Management, Event Hubs/Service Bus, Functions, Logic Apps.
• App/Platform : AKS, Azure App Service, Container Apps, Managed Identity, Key Vault.
• Datastores : Azure SQL, Snowflake, API.
• Define Done right : Write precise user stories and acceptance criteria including performance, security, observability, and testability.
• Measure outcomes : Set SLAs/SLOs and product KPIs (e.g., refresh latency, data pipeline success rate, cost/unit), and use Azure Monitor / App Insights / Log Analytics dashboards.
• Security & governance : Ensure designs use Private Endpoints, VNET integration, RBAC/Entra ID, Key Vault, Microsoft Purview for data lineage/classification, and align with Defender for Cloud recommendations.
• Stakeholder management : Align with Product, Finance, Security, Compliance, and Engineering; communicate status, risks, and trade-offs clearly.

Minimum Qualifications

• 4–7+ years as a PO/PM or Technical Program role delivering platforms or data products in agile environments.
• Hands-on fluency with Azure services:
  Azure DevOps (Boards/Repos/Pipelines), ADF/Synapse Pipelines, Databricks, ADLS Gen2, Synapse SQL, API Management, Functions, Event Hubs/Service Bus, Key Vault, Entra ID (Azure AD).
• Strong understanding of CI/CD (YAML pipelines), environments, approvals, and Infrastructure as Code (Bicep/Terraform/ARM).
• Comfortable querying with SQL and interpreting telemetry in App Insights/Log Analytics.
• Excellent written/verbal communication; can translate between business and engineering.

Preferred Qualifications

• Experience with Power BI / Microsoft Fabric (workspaces, capacity, dataflows, semantic models).
• Data engineering/product background (Delta Lake, medallion architecture, CDC, table design & partitioning).
• Security/privacy experience (Managed Identities, PIM, least privilege, PII handling.
• Domain experience in healthcare/pet healthcare, consumer, or multi-tenant B2B platforms.

Success Looks Like

• Clear, outcome-based roadmap aligned to business strategy and Azure architecture.
• Predictable delivery with improved reliability (SLOs hit), lower costs, and faster time-to-value.
• Strong adoption of platform/data capabilities and reduced labor for engineering.

How We Work

• Agile (Scrum/Kanban) with Azure DevOps for planning, tracking, and CI/CD.
• Design reviews with Architecture/Security; blameless post-incident reviews/root cause analysis.
• Data-informed decisions; we iterate and instrument everything.

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