Technical Product Owner
Executive Placements · Centurion, Gauteng
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Start free — we apply for you →Our client is looking for a Technical Product Owner Software Engineering Platforms, Developer Productivity & AI to shape and lead their enterprise software engineering ecosystem. This is a high-impact opportunity focused on creating a modern, scalable and measurable engineering environment that improves developer productivity, accelerates software delivery and enables responsible adoption of AI across software engineering teams.
Key Responsibilities
- Own the vision, roadmap and backlog for engineering platforms, developer productivity and AI engineering capabilities.
- Shape the strategy for engineering platforms, tooling and developer enablement across the organisation.
- Drive adoption of DORA metrics, engineering KPIs and value measurement frameworks.
- Establish productivity baselines and measurable improvement targets.
- Lead engineering toolchain strategy, optimisation and rationalisation.
- Evaluate build-versus-buy decisions and develop business cases for platform investments.
- Drive adoption and governance of AI-assisted software engineering capabilities.
- Define how AI engineering utilisation, productivity and ROI are measured.
- Partner with Software Engineering, Enterprise Architecture, Cloud, Infrastructure and Security teams.
- Promote platform-as-a-product thinking and improve adoption of engineering standards and capabilities.
- Support strategic technology investment, vendor and platform decisions.
Minimum Requirements
- 8+ years experience across Software Engineering, Platform Engineering, DevOps, Technology Management or related disciplines.
- Proven experience leading engineering platforms, developer tooling or enterprise technology capabilities.
- Experience operating as a Product Owner, Product Manager or Platform Owner .
- Strong understanding of the software engineering lifecycle and modern engineering delivery practices.
- Experience with DevOps, CI/CD, infrastructure-as-code and engineering automation .
- Understanding of DORA metrics, engineering performance and developer productivity measurement.
- Experience defining technology strategies, roadmaps and investment priorities.
- Ability to work effectively across Engineering, Architecture, Cloud and Platform teams.
- Strong product ownership skills with a focus on measurable outcomes and value realisation.
Nice to Have
- Experience with AI-assisted software development and AI coding platforms.
- Platform Engineering, DevOps, Cloud or AI certifications.
- Product Owner certification such as SAFe POPM, PSPO or CSPO .
- Experience with API management, engineering observability, repository strategies and value stream management.
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