Technical Product Owner - #2179787

ASA Recruitment’s client, a Public Sector organisation in Glasgow (hybrid working), are currently looking to recruit a Technical Product Owner, for an initial 6 month contract (with potential extensions) on a rate of up to £700/day outside of IR35 (based on experience).

The Role:

• Technical Product Owner required to provide technical leadership, mentorship and delivery capability to an established team tasked with supporting and maintaining a newly implemented platform to meet our client’s legislative and long-term business needs.
• The specialist will be expected to be embedded into a current delivery team and will provide technical ownership in conjunction with the existing Technical Lead within a small team.
• We are looking for an exceptional Technical Product Owner with a good balance of technical understanding and strong leadership skills who have proven experience in the development, deployment and support of services built on a track record of stability, availability and quality

Responsibilities:

• IT infrastructure: lead teams and departments in the design, implementation, administration and support of infrastructure solutions and services
• Ownership and initiative: take accountability for issues that occur and be proactive in searching for potential problems and achieve excellent user outcomes
• Technical understanding: anticipate and advise on future technology changes that present opportunities for the product or programme
• Coding and scripting: interact with, read and write code
• Managing product outcomes: advocate for data-driven decision making
• Product leadership: seek opportunities for reuse and learning across your organisation, represent product management in your area in conversations with senior stakeholders, protect teams, for example, from unnecessary distractions and requests to change direction and lead some product management community activities and participate in cross-government communities
• Product management: set the strategy and vision for your products, collaborating with others and create a prioritised roadmap for your products and use it to discuss product strategy at all levels
• Stakeholder relationship management: identify and resolve issues, influence stakeholders and manage relationships effectively, build long-term strategic relationships and communicate clearly and regularly with stakeholders
• Strategic ownership: ensure that the vision and strategy deliver the intended benefits and policy intent, and use evidence to challenge this when needed, work with stakeholders to get agreement on the strategic approach, build trust and adapt based on feedback, proactively review and iterate the strategy based on user and organisation insights

Experience:

• Highly experienced Technical Product Owner
• Best Practice AWS Architectures (i.e. Immutable Infrastructure, IaC, Ephemeral Infrastructure, Kubernetes on AWS EKS)
• MySQL compatible DBs: MySQL, RDS, Aurora, MariaDB
• Build Pipeline automation, CI/CD
• Build Tooling: Helm, Terragrunt, Git, ArgoCD
• Government Cloud Security standards (NIST, OWASP, CIS, NCSC etc…)
• BASH, Python
• RESTful microservices
• IT Service Management