Product Owner (Data Platform)

The Product Owner is the in-team product orchestrator for the enterprise data platform — accountable for backlog grooming, sprint planning, capability roadmap, gate criteria, and partnership with platform consumers (AI / agent platforms, business-unit data teams, data scientists). The role translates consumer needs into platform stories with measurable acceptance criteria and runs the cadence that ships platform capability with API contracts, SDKs, and governance baked in.

Key Responsibilities

• Own the platform backlog in the team's Jira project — story creation, refinement, prioritisation, acceptance criteria; maintain the platform capability roadmap in partnership with engineering leadership.
• Translate platform-consumer needs (AI / agent platforms, business-unit data teams, data scientists) into engineering stories with measurable acceptance criteria.
• Run sprint planning, review, and retrospective every two weeks for the platform team; maintain velocity tracking and scope discipline.
• Author gate criteria for platform services in partnership with the Tech Leads and engineers — service-level objectives, API contract maturity, SDK readiness, governance evidence; co-chair platform-capability reviews.
• Drive service-contract negotiations between the platform team and its consumers — knowledge graph, LLM gateway, vector search, model registry, data product catalogue — with documented SLOs, versioning, a