The Architecture and Technology Foundation (ATF) team needs a Product Owner to craft the future of their event streaming and messaging capabilities, including Kafka, EMS, and ActiveMQ Artemis, to drive innovation and scalability across high-performant streaming solutions.
Requirements
- 10+ years of experience in end-to-end technology solution delivery, with a focus on event streaming or related technologies.
- Strong understanding of event-driven architectures, distributed systems, stream processing, and messaging strategies.
- Hands-on expertise with Apache Kafka, Kafka Streams, KSQL, Messaging – Pub/Sub, or similar technologies.
- Full Stack development exposure with Java, Spring Boot, Angular, Typescript, Oracle, Snowflake, CI/CD Pipelines and DevOps practices.
- Experience with cloud platforms (AWS, Azure, GCP) and container orchestration (Kubernetes, Docker).
- Demonstrated success in quarterly and annual product planning, roadmap execution, and alignment.
- Excellent communication, leadership, and agile delivery skills.
Responsibilities
- Define and maintain the product vision, strategy, and roadmap for event streaming and caching platforms & solutions.
- Lead quarterly and annual planning, aligning product goals with business strategy and technology roadmaps.
- Own and prioritize the product backlog, ensuring delivery of high-impact features and platform improvements.
- Making informed trade-off decisions to strike the right balance between quality, cost, and timelines
- Collaborating and coordinating with Engineering Leaders and Scrum Masters to build squad capacity and capability and enabling squad member growth, development, and learning.
- Defining, evaluating, and communicating results through feedback, usage and performance metrics.
- Conduct market and internal research to see opportunities for innovation and optimization. Produce scaled up ideas which would further business goals and capabilities
Other
- Capable of leading, influencing, and motivating colleagues without formal authority, and have a track record of building high performing teams.
- Customer focused approach to understanding customer needs, translate strategic objectives into action, making decisions, and prioritize to improve value delivered.
- Ability to break requirements into clear and concise agile tasks with well-defined business value and acceptance criteria and optimally communicate.
- Focused on execution and identify, communicate, and remove impediments to progress.
- Establish and maintain positive relationships as you work closely across Fidelity to deliver business outcomes and seek out the expertise of colleagues to advise on your approach.
