Job Title: Product Owner About the Role: We are seeking a highly skilled and experienced Product Owner to play a pivotal role in shaping the future of our digital architecture and driving enterprise-wide innovation. Key Responsibilities: - Lead the design and development of proprietary tools tailored to our strategic needs. - Govern technical solutions across development, infrastructure, and operations, ensuring scalability, security, and regulatory compliance. - Conduct post-implementation evaluations to assess ROI, performance, and continuous improvement areas. - Translate business needs into robust, automated, and scalable architectures using cloud-native and modern engineering principles. - Champion professionalization and standardization across all phases of the software development lifecycle. - Drive DevOps maturity, performance, and monitoring strategies. - Drive technology consolidation and platform harmonization by merging redundant or siloed systems. - Own and manage build vs. buy decisions, balancing in-house development, outsourcing, and third-party integrations. - Evaluate and implement emerging technologies, including cloud automation, containerization, and advanced data platforms. - Collaborate across teams to ensure on-time, in-scope, and on-budget delivery of IT projects. - Ensure all solutions meet security, data privacy (GDPR), and internal compliance requirements. - Lead, mentor, and coach cross-functional technical teams. - Act as a strategic product owner — defining product visions, managing backlogs, setting priorities, and ensuring business value delivery. - Translate complex business needs into a clear architectural product roadmap and ensure stakeholder alignment throughout the delivery lifecycle. - Lead cross-functional discussions between stakeholders, developers, and designers to validate feasibility and delivery scope. Requirements: - Bachelor's or Master's degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or related field. - 8+ years of hands-on experience in software engineering, DevOps, data science, IT, and/or other relevant engineering domains. - Experience with one or more of the following: Cloud platforms: Microsoft Azure, Microsoft Fabric Languages/Frameworks: Java, C#, Python, SQL, Databricks DevOps tools: Azure DevOps, CI/CD pipelines Business tools: Power BI Experience with third-party system integration, platform consolidation, and quality assurance processes. - Knowledge of regulatory frameworks including GDPR and IT security standards. - Experience resolving technical challenges, including 3rd-party vendor management. - Excellent leadership, problem-solving, and communication skills— able to engage across business and technical audiences, including C-level stakeholders. - Fluency in English and Spanish. - Industry experience in retail is desirable.