Technical Product Owner

We are looking for a Technical Product Owner who we develop the Experian UK Data & Analytics Platform vision, translating business and market needs, alongside architectural direction and data strategy into a clear actionable roadmap.

Reporting into our Data Engineering Director, you will ensure stakeholders across the business understand how technical components like ingestion pipelines, data contracts, and access layers drive real-world impact.

Main Responsibilities:

• Define and prioritise platform capabilities with a focus on interoperability, scalability, and value delivery.
• Build a platform roadmap that connects technical progress and business enablement.
• Maintain both short-term (3–6 month) delivery visibility and long-term (12–24 month) strategic evolution, showing how foundational components ladder into analytical value.
• Interface between Engineering, Architecture, and Product teams, owning backlog readiness.
• Collaborate to write clear, testable acceptance criteria, define scope boundaries, surface dependencies, and de-risk delivery all while ensuring what's built is usable and aligned to the data strategy principles.
• Champion federated data contribution models.
• Shape the data product lifecycle
• Ensure platform compliance with internal and external security and regulatory standards.
• Champion performance benchmarking, load testing, and resilience engineering practices.
• Define and prioritize NFRs such as availability, latency, throughput, fault tolerance, disaster recovery, security, compliance, and cost efficiency.
• Ensure all deliverables meet Experian's standards for data privacy, security, and regulatory compliance.
• Technical Story Writing: Translate our requirements into detailed user stories and technical specifications with clear acceptance criteria.
• Agile Leadership: Lead sprint planning, backlog grooming, and daily stand-ups in partnership with Scrum Masters and Engineering Leads.

Experian is a global data and technology company, powering opportunities for people and businesses around the world. We help to redefine lending practices, uncover and prevent fraud, simplify healthcare, create marketing solutions, and gain deeper insights into the automotive market, all using our unique combination of data, analytics and software. We also assist millions of people to realize their financial goals and help them save time and money.

We operate across a range of markets, from financial services to healthcare, automotive, agribusiness, insurance, and many more industry segments.

We invest in people and new advanced technologies to unlock the power of data. As a FTSE 100 Index company listed on the London Stock Exchange (EXPN), we have a team of 22,500 people across 32 countries. Our corporate headquarters are in Dublin, Ireland. Learn more at experianplc.com.

• Experience product ownership or product management - preference given to candidates with experience in operational platforms, data platforms, or cloud-based analytics environments (preferably AWS).
• Translate high-level business needs into actionable platform capabilities, features, and roadmaps.
• Experience delivering outcomes through agile methodologies.
• Experience with data lifecycle concepts (ingestion, curation, cataloguing, access), and principles such as "data as a product" and federated data ownership.
• Familiarity with data governance, privacy regulations (e.g., GDPR), and secure software development practices.

Benefits package includes:

• Hybrid working
• Great compensation package and discretionary bonus plan
• Core benefits include pension, bupa healthcare, sharesave scheme and more
• 25 days annual leave with 8 bank holidays and 3 volunteering days. You can purchase additional annual leave.

We take our people agenda very seriously and focus on what matters; DEI, work/life balance, development, authenticity, collaboration, wellness, reward & recognition, volunteering... the list goes on. Experian's people first approach is award-winning; World's Best Workplaces™ 2024 (Fortune Top 25), Great Place To Work™ in 24 countries, and Glassdoor Best Places to Work 2024 to name a few. Check out Experian Life on social or our Careers Site to understand why.

Experian is proud to be an Equal Opportunity and Affirmative Action employer. Innovation is an important part of Experian's DNA and practices, and our diverse workforce drives our success. Everyone can succeed at Experian and bring their whole self to work, irrespective of their gender, ethnicity, religion, colour, sexuality, physical ability or age. If you have a disability or special need that requires accommodation, please let us know at the earliest opportunity.

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