Lead Technical Product Owner

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Lead Technical Product Owner

Sydney

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The Lead Technical Product Owner (LTPO) is a strategic leadership role responsible for defining and driving the product vision across the portfolio, with a focus on enterprise-scale solutions. This role ensures that product requirements are well-defined, technically feasible, and aligned with architectural standards to deliver innovative, secure, and scalable outcomes.

As the technical advocate for the product, the LTPO works closely with architects, engineering teams, stakeholders, and customers to design solutions that integrate modern technologies—including cloud-native platforms, IoT, and AI/ML—to deliver intelligent, data-driven building systems. The LTPO analyses customer requirements and translates them into actionable outcomes, ensuring solutions are aligned with business drivers and user needs.

In addition to leading product strategy, the LTPO mentors and enables a team of Technology Product Owners, fostering a high-performance culture that delivers on key business initiatives and customer commitments. The role also involves managing scope and driving trade-off decisions in conjunction with stakeholders, balancing business requirements with technical constraints to ensure optimal outcomes.

This is a leadership opportunity for someone who thrives on shaping product strategy, enabling agile teams, and delivering meaningful outcomes through technical innovation, operational excellence, and domain expertise in smart buildings

Customer-Centric Analysis

• Analyses customer requirements and translates them into actionable outcomes, ensuring solutions are aligned with business drivers and user needs.

Requirements Engineering

• Roadmap & Feature Definition: Partners with Product Managers to evaluate the product roadmap, identify high-impact features for development, and define the "definition of done" for each deliverable.
• Translate complex business needs into well-structured epics, features, and user stories with clear acceptance criteria.
• Lead backlog refinement sessions with cross-functional teams, ensuring technical dependencies and constraints are addressed.
• Maintain traceability between business objectives & technical requirements

Technical Leadership

• Define and evolve the product architecture in collaboration with Solution Architects and Engineering Leads.
• Ensure technical feasibility and system integrity across all product increments.
• Drive decisions on APIs, data models, integration patterns, and cloud-native design principles.

Domain Awareness

• Maintains a strong understanding of the latest trends and technology shifts within the Buildings Domain, proactively identifying opportunities for innovation and improvement

Team Enablement & Mentorship

• Mentor a team of Technology Product Owners, fostering a culture of ownership, continuous learning, and technical excellence.
• Provide guidance on agile ceremonies, backlog prioritisation, and stakeholder engagement.
• Facilitate knowledge sharing and technical upskilling across the product ownership community.

Stakeholder Engagement & Advocacy

• Manage scope and drive trade-off decisions in conjunction with external stakeholders while balancing business requirements with technical requirements
• Act as the technical voice of the product in steering committees, architecture forums, and customer engagements.
• Communicate product vision, technical strategy, and value to senior leadership and business stakeholders.
• Advocate for customer value, system reliability, and operational efficiency in all product decisions.

Continuous Improvement

• Analyze delivery metrics, incident trends, and customer feedback to identify areas for improvement.

• AI/ML Leadership: Champions the adoption and integration of artificial intelligence and machine learning to deliver intelligent, data-driven product features that set new standards for customer value.

• Holds a Bachelor's degree or equivalent in engineering/computer science or equivalent discipline.

• Proven experience as a Product Owner or Product Manager withing building automation, enterprise software or IoT solutions.
• Solid understanding of system integration, IoT ecosystem, cloud platforms, and cybersecurity standards.
• Skilled in stakeholder management and cross-functional leadership.
• Ability to simplify complex technical concepts for business and customers.

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