Senior technical Product Owner (TPO)

About the Role:

Blankfactor is seeking a highly capable Technical Product Owner (TPO) to lead and drive product vision, roadmap alignment, and delivery execution for Shared Services modernization initiatives.

Responsibilities:

• Own, refine, and evolve the product backlog for the Shared Services modernization program, ensuring alignment with strategic business outcomes, compliance requirements, and technical readiness.
• Translate cloud platform workflows, business requirements, and customer problems into clear epics, user stories, process flows, and acceptance criteria for engineering teams.
• Perform Scrum Master duties for multi-shore teams, including facilitating ceremonies, removing blockers, and driving continuous improvement.
• Act as a Business Analyst when needed — eliciting requirements, mapping workflows, and validating solutions with business and technical stakeholders.
• Partner with business leaders, engineering leads, legal/compliance SMEs, QA, and UX/design to prioritize features and resolve dependencies.
• Lead team initiatives such as:
• Developing and maintaining monitoring, logging, and alerting solutions for high-performing systems
• Automating infrastructure provisioning, configuration, and operations to enhance efficiency
• Supporting reporting on DevOps best practices, migrations, security assessments, vulnerability remediation, and compliance checks
• Prioritize features based on customer value, technical complexity, compliance needs, and time-to-market.
• Champion Agile best practices and continuously optimize workflows across distributed teams.
• Support integration efforts with client products, third-party systems, and solutions.
• Ensure deliverables meet high standards of quality, scalability, security, and compliance, particularly during critical migration milestones.

Required Qualifications:

• Bachelor’s degree in Business, Computer Science, Finance, or a related field
• 5\+ years of experience as a Product Owner or Technical Product Manager, ideally in fintech or B2B commercial lending
• Proven experience delivering modernization or migration efforts (e.g., monolith to microservices, cloud-native transitions)
• Experience working with engineering teams in technologies such as Azure, Kubernetes, with some exposure to ., Java,

Preferred Qualifications:

• Solid understanding of commercial lending products, including term loans, syndicated loans, and asset-based lending
• Familiarity with regulatory frameworks and documentation compliance in lending

Skills and Competencies:

• Strategic mindset with a bias for execution and iterative delivery
• Exceptional ability to break down complex workflows into manageable deliverables
• Strong communicator who can align cross-functional stakeholders and lead multi-team initiatives
• Comfortable operating in large-scale enterprise environments with distributed teams and layered governance models
• Adept with Agile tools (e.g., Jira, ADO, GitHub Projects) and experienced in backlog refinement, sprint planning, and demos