Product Owner – Cloud Landing Zone Services (Azure)

We are looking for an experienced and technically strong Product Owner for our client – an international financial organization with a strong technology focus.

You will lead the evolution of Azure Cloud Landing Zone Services, combining Product Ownership with hands-on Cloud Engineering, including Terraform, architecture, code reviews and platform automation.

What you’ll be doing:

Product Ownership

• Own the roadmap and vision for Azure.
• Prioritize platform capabilities balancing business demand, security, compliance, and technical debt.
• Maintain and prioritize the product backlog in collaboration with Cloud PM.
• Define and track KPIs, adoption metrics, reliability targets, and customer satisfaction.
• Present roadmap, risks, and achievements to senior leadership and governance forums.

Cloud Engineering

• Actively contribute to Terraform and IaC development.
• Conduct code reviews and pull request approvals.
• Review and challenge technical designs and implementation approaches.
• Support engineering teams with solution design, troubleshooting and decisions.
• Contribute to CI/CD pipelines, platform standards, and reusable modules.
• Ensure services meet security, resilience, and compliance requirements.
• Participate in major incident reviews and platform improvement initiatives.

Platform Strategy & Architecture

• Partner with Enterprise Architecture, Security, Risk, and Operations teams.
• Drive standardization and simplification of cloud platform services.
• Evolve the Landing Zone to support AI, Data, Kubernetes, Serverless, and Developer Platforms.
• Engage with Microsoft on roadmap alignment.
• Identify opportunities for optimization, automation, and cost reduction.

Stakeholder Management

• Build relationships across engineering, application, security, architecture, and business teams.
• Gather platform consumer feedback and translate it into roadmap priorities.
• Drive consensus and decision-making across multiple stakeholders.
• Represent Cloud Engineering in governance, transformation, and audit activities.

Accountability

• Product vision and roadmap.
• Product backlog prioritization.
• Platform adoption and customer satisfaction.
• Delivery of planned capabilities.
• Landing Zone engineering standards.
• Platform reliability and resilience.
• Security and compliance alignment.
• Technical quality of platform changes.
• Engineering governance and code review quality.

Profile and Experience

• 8+ years of Cloud Engineering experience.
• 3+ years of Product Owner, Platform Owner, Technical Lead, Lead Engineer, or Architect experience.
• Experience operating enterprise-scale cloud platforms.
• Experience working within Agile delivery models.
• Experience managing technical roadmaps and backlogs.

Technical Skills

Strong experience with:

• Terraform.
• Infrastructure as Code.
• GitHub or Git-based development workflows.
• Pull Request reviews.
• CI/CD pipelines.
• Cloud security controls.
• Kubernetes and container platforms.
• Networking and cloud connectivity.
• Identity and Access Management.
• Observability and monitoring tooling.

Leadership Skills

• Excellent stakeholder management.
• Strong communication and influencing skills.
• Strategic mindset with hands-on execution capability.
• Ability to challenge and drive decisions across senior stakeholders.
• Strong analytical and problem-solving skills.

Success in this role will be measured by:

• Increased consumption of Landing Zone services.
• Delivery of roadmap commitments.
• Reduced platform operational risk.
• Improved developer experience.
• Faster onboarding of cloud workloads.
• Increased automation and self-service adoption.
• Reduced technical debt.
• Positive audit and compliance outcomes.
• Improved customer satisfaction scores.
• High engineering quality and code review standards.

This is not a traditional Product Owner position. We are looking for a technical Product Owner who can:

• Define strategy in the morning.
• Prioritize backlog items at lunch.
• Review Terraform pull requests in the afternoon.
• Challenge architectural decisions before the end of the day.

The successful candidate will operate as a product leader, cloud architect, and senior engineer, ensuring the Cloud Landing Zone remains a secure, scalable, and developer-friendly platform that accelerates the organization’s multi-cloud strategy.

The offer:

• Hybrid working model and flexibility.
• Attractive benefits package.
• Private healthcare and life insurance.
• Multisport / sports benefits.
• Flexible working hours.
• Training and professional certification opportunities.
• Career development and continuous learning.
• Work with modern Azure technologies at enterprise scale.
• International and collaborative technology environment.
• Modern, comfortable office.
• Strong focus on work-life balance and development.
• Inclusive and diverse workplace.