Technical Product Owner

Client Name: Kforce

End Client Name: Meijer

Job Title: Technical Product Owner (Backend Azure Services)

Location: Grand Rapids, MI (Hybrid)

Work Type: Hybrid

Job Type: Contract (6+ months)

Rate: $55/hr on W2

Notes: Video interview; Open to any visa

LinkedIn needed

Must Have :

• Must have come from a development background prior to moving into formal Product Owner roles
• 3-5 years of experience as a Technical Product Owner / Product Owner

Nice to Have :

• Experience with Kafka is strongly preferred
• Experience in eCommerce and 3rd party marketplace integration is strongly preferred

Job Description

The Technical Product Owner has 5+ years of relevant work experience. As part of the solution development team, the Technical Product Owner will take ownership of the application(s) as well as being responsible for working with software developers/ engineers and architects to provide consultative guidance and direction to the team. The Technical Product Owner will also be responsible for building out the backlog, approving cards and moving them to completion, managing code deployment, and leading the development team members.

Required Skills:

Must feel comfortable with defining and planning work for development teams

Previous experience as an Azure/.NET developer/ C# development background.

Experience with Confluent Kafka and Temporal is preferred

Experience developing native MS Azure Cloud based applications is also required

Experience collaborating with development and architecture teams to provide guidance on priorities

Must have SAFe experience or relevant Agile experience and feel comfortable leading backlog refinement sessions and demoing the work completed by the development team to a larger audience

Strong comfort using Azure DevOps or a similar tool (like Jira) to create work items for the development team.

They will need to understand cloud based as well as on-prem applications.

Strong understanding of Azure function apps/logic apps/durable functions is required

The ideal candidate is someone who takes initiative in scoping out work for their development team.

The candidate is organized, able to present/communicate in front of larger groups, able to collaborate with other teams

Candidates with experience in third-party marketplace platform integration as it pertains to e-commerce solutions is preferred