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

YOUR CHALLENGE

• Define and maintain the end-to-end technical vision, multi-year roadmap, and lifecycle strategy for the global data platform
• Gathering requirements and maintaining relationships with current and potential customers
• Ensuring that the technical vision and roadmap support current and future business goals
• Ensure platform scalability, reliability, performance, and security by incorporating non-functional requirements (NFRs), observability, automation, and "resilience-by-design" principles
• Lead the prioritization and delivery of platform features and capabilities, collaborating with the Product Manager, Scrum Masters, development teams, the system architect, and the release train engineer to coordinate work across Agile teams
• Take ownership of the platform backlog, ensuring clear initiatives, features, and user stories. Prioritize delivery by balancing trade-offs between innovation, tech debt reduction, and operational stability.
• Serve as the primary technical point of contact for incidents, problems, and outages, as well as risk findings related to the platform
• Establish and monitor SLAs, SLOs, and KPIs; use metrics and OKRs to measure platform health in terms of usage, team performance, and business value delivered
• Drive standardization, reuse, and simplification across the platform ecosystem to reduce complexity, improve interoperability, and accelerate time to market
• Coach and guide technical leads and development teams, promoting best practices in coding, testing, deployment, and incident response
• Shape the target operating model for platform operations—including staffing, governance, RACI definitions, and handover processes—to support sustainable growth and resilient operational models
• Represent the platform in executive forums and governance bodies, communicating business risks, investments, and strategic decisions to stakeholders across technical and business areas

YOUR PROFILE

• Bachelor's or master's degree in computer science, information systems, or a related field
• At least 10 years of experience in technology roles at large, regulated companies—preferably in the financial services industry
• Proven experience in managing, leading, or scaling large-scale data platforms—preferably big data technology
• Proven track record in defining and delivering technical platform visions and roadmaps in an enterprise environment
• Strong technical leadership and systems thinking, with the ability to balance short-term delivery with long-term technological sustainability
• Strong communication skills at all levels. Ability to summarize complex issues for management, while also being able to discuss them in detail with technical teams
• A solid understanding of key functional requirements—performance, availability, scalability, and security
• Familiarity with data architectures, modern data stores, data transformations, and data integrations
• Familiarity with data governance, data protection, data privacy, and security frameworks
• Experience with data quality, testing, and acceptance criteria for data, metadata, and data pipelines
• Agile mindset—understanding and experience with Scrum, SAFe, or similar practices is a strong advantage
• Experience in software lifecycle governance, technical debt management, and vulnerability remediation processes
• Skilled in roadmapping, backlog refinement, dependency management, and translating business capabilities into actionable technical initiatives
• Strong change management skills with a proven track record of successfully delivering major technology projects in complex environments
• A people person / comfortable with significant interaction with businesses and consumers