Platform Owner 100% (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 consumer base
• Ensuring the technical vision and roadmap enables the current and future business ambitions
• Ensure platform scalability, reliability, performance, and security, embedding non-functional requirements (NFRs), observability, automation, and resilience-by-design principles
• Lead the prioritisation and delivery of platform features and capabilities, collaborating with Prod Manager, Scrum Masters, Development Teams, System Architect, and Release Train Engineer to coordinate work across Agile teams
• Own the platform backlog, ensuring clear initiatives, features, and user stories. Prioritise the delivery balancing trade-offs between innovation, tech debt reduction, and operational stability
• Serve as the primary technical escalation point for incidents, problems, and outages, and risk findings related to the platform
• Establish and monitor SLAs, SLOs, and KPIs; leverage metrics and OKRs to measure platform health re: usage, team performance, and business value delivered
• Drive standardisation, 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, fostering 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—supporting sustainable growth and resilient run-models
• Represent the platform in executive forums and governance bodies, articulating 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
• Minimum of 10 years of experience in technology roles within large, regulated enterprises—preferred in financial services
• Proven experience owning, leading or scaling large-scale data platforms - preferably big data technology
• Track record with defining and delivering technical platform visions and roadmaps in enterprise environment
• Strong technical leadership and systems thinking, able to balance short-term delivery with long-term technology sustainability
• Strong communication skills on all levels. Ability to summarise complex issues for management, while also being able to discuss on a detail level with technical teams
• Solid understanding of key-functional requirements-performance, availability, scalability and security
• Familiarity with data architectures and modern data stores, transformations and integrations
• Familiarity with data governance data protection, data privacy and security frameworks
• Experience with data quality, testing and acceptance concepts for data / metadata and data pipelines
• Agile mindset—understanding and experience with Scrum, SAFe or similar practices a strong advantage
• Experience in software lifecycle governance, technical debt management, vulnerability remediation process
• Skilled in road-mapping, backlog refinement, dependency management, and translating business capabilities into actionable technical initiatives
• Strong change management skills with demonstrable evidence of successfully delivering major technology projects in complex environments
• People person / comfortable with significant business / consumer interaction