Technical Product Owner

Be a part a large-scale program of work that has high visibility across the business
- Permanent role based at our Head Office in Mascot
- Help shape the future of Qantas and deliver exceptional value to our customers

At Qantas, we represent Australia to the world. Our diverse country is known for its unique spirit, mateship, and a can-do attitude. Together we’re strong and resilient, and we work hard to make sure we’re always at our best.

The Technical Product Owner (TPO) role works closely with various senior business stakeholders to provide a single point of accountability across the technology lifecycle of Plan, Build and Run for an assigned set of business capabilities and products, as well as their underlying technology components. Relationships with business and external key stakeholders are fundamental to coordinating activity across multiple requirements, critical dependencies, technology imperatives, and functional outcomes.
In Agile environments, the Technical Product Owner is accountable, through their squad, for the delivery of new features, enhancements, initiatives, continuous improvement and accepting completed work as ‘done’ with validation from the Product Owner and end-users. They guide and mentor cross-functional squads and vendors to ensure features are delivered to commitments, and the products meet their service levels and are secure and resilient by design.

You’ll have:

- Strong experience in operational service management
- 5+ years’ experience in an Agile environment (or equivalent work experience)
- solving of strategic problems of high complexity on a large scale
- Expert stakeholder management skills across both business and technical functions
- Strong communications skills both verbal and written
- Able to work cross-functionally and align business unit processes to enterprise
- business processes
- Strong commercial and business acumen with experience in driving commercial
- outcomes
- Strong people leadership skills and experience
- Proficient in multiple Agile frameworks such as Scrum, Kanban, design thinking,
- HCD and other frameworks
- Experience designing and facilitating fit for purpose workshops that deliver defined
- outcomes
- Why Qantas?_
- You’ll join a team where creativity and passion are encouraged. Our people come together to allow us to dream big and deliver successfully._
- There are many different opportunities across our team, which means you’ll be able to grow both personally and professionally at Qantas. Your development is a priority for us - so that you can maintain the high standards our customers have come to expect and can continue to develop over time. You’ll be supported from day 1 with on the job training and coaching as well as our formal training opportunities. While you may start in this role, we’ve got a great track record of supporting our people to take their career in so many different directions, the destinations are endless._
- The Qantas employee benefits program offers amazing benefits that extend well beyond travel._
- _ We love to travel: Enjoy heavily discounted air travel within Australia and across the globe, both for you and your family and friends, as well as exclusive deals on accommodation and holidays._
- _ We have flexible leave options: Make use of leave and flexible working opportunities including 18 weeks paid parental leave (plus superannuation payments on all paid and unpaid parental leave until your child turns 1) and additional purchased leave options for eligible employees._
- _ We’ll give you access to thousands of rewards: Through our partnerships we can offer you discounts across shopping, food and wine, insurance, health and wellbeing, leisure and entertainment. You can also take advantage of our salary packaging program including motor vehicles, eligible portable electronic devices and professional memberships._
- _ We’ll support your wellbeing: Whether it’s learning to better support your own and others’ mental health, our interactive wellbeing app or your very own tailored nutrition plan._
- Applications close on the 3rd of September_

About us

Founded in the Queensland outback in 1920, Qantas has grown to be Australia’s largest regional, domestic and international airline. Qantas has a range of subsidiary businesses that support the overall operations of the Group. The Qantas Group’s main business is the transportation of customers and freight using two complementary airline brands — Qantas and Jetstar — operating regional, domestic and international services.