Role: Technical Product Owner
Work Location: Greenwood Village, Denver , CO
Contract
Pay rate :$47.50/hr on w2 or $55/hr on c2c
JOB DESCRIPTION:
– Preferred local to Denver candidates or willing to relocate
We are looking for a Technical Product Owner with strong technical expertise to lead the development of scalable, cloud-native products. The ideal candidate will bridge business needs and engineering execution, translating complex technical requirements into clear, actionable backlog items while ensuring system architecture aligns with product goals.
Required Qualifications
• Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or equivalent experience
• 5+ years of experience in product ownership or product management roles
• Proven experience in a Technical Product Owner role
• Strong experience working directly with external stakeholders and cross-company teams
• Deep understanding of Agile/Scrum methodologies and scaled Agile environments
“• Own and drive the product vision, roadmap, and backlog for complex, cloud-native technical platforms
• Act as the primary product and technical interface between internal engineering teams and external teams, partners, and customers • Lead feature requirement discussions with external stakeholders, translating business needs into clear, actionable technical requirements • Define and prioritize features, platform capabilities, and technical enablers based on business value, architectural impact, and delivery constraints • Translate business, customer, and architectural requirements into high-quality user stories with clear functional and non-functional acceptance criteria • Collaborate closely with architects, engineering leads, and developers on microservices architecture, API design, data flows, and event-driven systems • Work with engineering teams to design, evolve, and optimize microservices-based and distributed architectures • Ensure alignment and dependency management across multiple teams working in a microservices and event-driven environment • Track, analyze, and communicate progress, risks, system metrics, and dependencies to internal leadership and external stakeholders
• Ensure non-functional requirements (performance, availability, security, scalability, observability) are clearly defined and delivered
• Drive backlog refinement, sprint planning, sprint reviews, retrospectives, and release readiness activities
• Make informed trade-off decisions balancing scope, timeline, quality, risk, and technical debt
“Required Technical Expertise
• Experience working with enterprise customers or system integrators
• Background in platform, infrastructure, or developer-focused products preferably Java / Spring Boot ecosystem and microservices architecture
• Agile certifications (CSPO, SAFe POPM, SPC)
• Experience with security, compliance, or regulated environments
Leadership & Communication Skills
• Excellent ability to lead technical and product discussions with senior external stakeholders
• Strong negotiation and expectation management skills
• Ability to translate complex technical constraints into clear business-level explanations
• Confident decision-maker with a strategic mindset
• Strong written and verbal communication skills
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