Technical Product Owner

Manchester: £58,000 - £64,000 / Guildford: £60,000 - £67,000

Permanent

Hybrid - 2 x days per week in the office

Imagine helping to drive the future of educational technology. Think about using your technical expertise to drive innovation, balance complex needs, and shape the software that powers the core of AQA's assessment systems. Are you ready to maximise the value delivered by development teams and define the technical roadmap for mission-critical assessment products?

In this pivotal role, you'll leverage your deep technical and DevOps knowledge to align customer and stakeholder needs with the architecture and operational requirements of cutting-edge products. You'll be at the forefront, optimizing work processes, prioritizing product backlogs, and ensuring that every release meets the highest standards of quality and performance. Reporting to the Software Delivery Manager and working closely with a diverse team of business analysts, developers, and testers, you'll embody a culture of trust, innovation, and continuous improvement, driving agile practices and technical excellence across the board.

As the Technical Product Owner, you'll define and deliver technical and DevOps solutions that not only meet but exceed expectations, all while navigating the complexities of high-stakes and regulated environments. Your ability to lead, innovate, and inspire will be crucial as you manage risks, communicate effectively with stakeholders, and continuously evolve your skills to meet future challenges.

Need to Know

• Excellent experience of technical product ownership in a variety of agile / lean and scaled agile delivery structures, with an outcome-focussed approach.
• Demonstrable technical and DevOps knowledge to be able to create, drive, innovate and assess technical solutions across a wide range of software technologies, processes and platforms and deployment environments.
• Ability to work closely with development and operations teams to enhance deployment processes, reduce time to market, and ensure high availability and scalability
• Structured thinking approach, able to lead groups of people to break down and resolve complex and ambiguous problems in time-pressured environments, recognising and balancing technical against operational and commercial factors.
• Significant experience delivering in high-stakes and regulated environments.
• High level of curiosity, with a genuine passion for finding and implementing innovative solutions for business problems through technology.
• Passion for continuous improvement in practice, to increase product quality, reliability, and dependability.
• Adept at conflict navigation and resolving interpersonal conflicts.
• Skilled in facilitation to plan, sync, review and inspect team members work, holding retrospective reviews to encourage continuous improvement.

What's in it for you?:

• Generous Annual Leave: 25 days of annual leave, increasing to 30 days with service, plus all Bank Holidays and additional Christmas office closure.

• Flexible Working: A 35-hour week with the empowerment to deliver requirements of your role when it suits everyone.

• Develop yourself at work: Receive sponsorship for apprenticeships and other qualifications.

• Competitive Pension Scheme: Excellent contributory pension plan (6% - 11.5% based on your contribution).

• Your health and wellbeing: BUPA private medical insurance, gym membership/ access and free access the Headspace app.

• Other benefits: Life assurance, electric car salary sacrifice and an enhanced maternity/paternity scheme.

Ready to apply?

If the role looks of interest and you would like to apply, please do so via our portal. Every application will be provided with a written response!

Closing date for applications will be Sunday 25th August. We are reviewing applications as they come through and reserve the right to close this role early.