Platform Owner (Full-Time) (f/m/d)

Your challenge

• Define and maintain the end-to-end technical vision, the multi-year roadmap, and the lifecycle strategy for the global data platform
• Gather requirements and maintain relationships with current and potential customers
• Ensure that the technical vision and roadmap support current and future business goals
• Ensuring platform scalability, reliability, performance, and security; incorporating non-functional requirements (NFRs); observability; automation; and principles of resilience by design
• Lead the prioritization and delivery of platform features and capabilities; collaborate with product managers, Scrum Masters, development teams, system architects, and the Release Train Engineer to coordinate work across Agile teams
• Responsibility for the platform backlog, ensuring that clear initiatives, features, and user stories are in place, prioritizing delivery, and balancing trade-offs between innovation, technical debt reduction, and operational stability
• Serve as the primary technical point of contact for incidents, issues, audits, and risk assessments related to the platform
• Set up and monitor SLAs, SLOs, and KPIs; use metrics and OKRs to measure platform health, usage, team performance, and business value
• Driving standardization, reuse, and simplification across platform ecosystems to reduce complexity, improve interoperability, and accelerate time to market
• Coaching and leading technical leads and development teams, promoting best practices in coding, testing, deployment, and incident response
• Develop the target operating model for platform operations, including staffing, governance, RACJ definitions, and handover processes, to support sustainable growth and efficient operating models
• Representing the platform in executive forums and governance bodies; communicating progress, risks, investments, and strategic decisions to stakeholders across technology and business units

Your profile

• A degree in computer science, information systems, or a related field
• At least 10 years of experience in technical roles at large, regulated companies, preferably in the financial services industry
• Proven experience in owning, managing, or scaling large data platforms, preferably using big data technology
• Proven experience in defining and delivering technical platform visions and roadmaps within the company
• Experience in designing, implementing, architecting, and integrating scalable, high-performance, highly available systems, microservices, event-driven architectures, APIs, and data platforms
• Excellent technical leadership and systems thinking, with the ability to balance short-term delivery with long-term platform sustainability
• Strong communication skills at all levels, with the ability to summarize complex issues for management while also discussing them in detail with technical teams