Duration: 6+ Months contract with possible extension or conversion to permanent
Travel: 25-50% within USA
Job Description:
Required Skills & Experience:
- Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Engineering, Information Systems, or a related technical field (or equivalent experience).
- 3+ years of experience in an Agile environment or technical product management.
- Proven experience working in Agile environments and collaborating with engineering and architecture teams.
- Engineering & architecture fluency — Understands how applications are built and run; can read code, APIs, and architecture diagrams; frames tradeoffs across cloud, networking, data, reliability/observability, and security to inform product decisions; influences technical direction without owning day to day coding.
- Platform/shared service productization — Treats shared service capabilities as products with clear value propositions, service catalogs, and lifecycle plans; defines and stewards SLOs/SLAs, capacity and reliability objectives.
- Excellent communication and stakeholder management skills across technical and non-technical audiences.
- Strong leadership and mentoring capabilities.
- Strategic thinker with the ability to balance short-term delivery with long-term technical vision and ability balance business need with and technical constraints to make informed decisions.
- Experience defining and tracking technical OKRs and KPIs.
- Analytical mindset with a focus on data-driven decision-making.
Preferred Qualifications:
- 4+ years of experience in product ownership or technical product management.
Manager's Top Requirements:
- Crew Pay & Payroll Expertise
- 5 years of experience in airline crew pay or payroll.
- Strong understanding of labor-contract–based payroll processing and crew operations
- Experience with Skymetrix(Rainmaker) or ELP Crew Payment platforms is a plus.
- Advanced Requirements & Testing Skills
- 5 years of experience in requirements gathering, facilitation, and documentation.
- Proficient in defining acceptance criteria and executing functional, unit, integration, and regression testing.
- Skilled at translating complex crew contracts into system rules and technical requirements.
- Analytical & Process Design Strength
- Demonstrated analytical capabilities, including gap analysis, data gathering, process mapping, and modeling.
- Experience creating traceability matrices and supporting structured delivery processes.
- Cross-Functional Collaboration & Communication
- Proven ability to work effectively across business units, technology teams, and third-party SaaS providers.
- Able to communicate complex technical or operational concepts to a wide range of stakeholders and maintain alignment across teams.
- Product & Solution Delivery Leadership
- Experience with issue tracking, test plan validation, solution implementation, and continuous product discovery.
- Flexible, proactive contributor capable of stepping into multiple roles to support project success.
Roles & Responsibilities:
- As a Principal Technical Product Owner, you will lead the strategy, vision, and execution of complex, enterprise-scale technical products and platforms. You will serve as a critical bridge between engineering teams, architecture, and business stakeholders, ensuring that product development aligns with technical standards, customer needs, and strategic business goals.
- Your role will focus on delivering scalable, sustainable, and value-driven solutions that support enterprise-wide initiatives.
- You will own the end-to-end product lifecycle—from defining technical requirements and prioritizing platform capabilities to collaborating cross-functionally to deliver impactful outcomes. As a senior leader, you will provide thought leadership across product and engineering teams, mentor other Product Owners, and help shape the future of our technical product ecosystem.
- Define and communicate a compelling product vision. Develop and manage roadmaps for IT applications, ensuring alignment with enterprise architecture, business objectives, and long-term sustainability.
- Operate as the primary liaison between engineering, architecture, and business stakeholders to translate business needs into technical requirements and ensure alignment across teams.
- Lead backlog refinement and prioritization for technical features, application enhancements, and infrastructure capabilities. Balance technical debt, scalability, and business value.
- Gather insights from internal users and stakeholders to identify pain points and opportunities to translate feedback into actionable technical solutions.
- Partner with engineering, architecture, and design teams to ensure successful delivery of technical products and facilitate decision-making and remove roadblocks.
- Define and track product KPIs and OKRs that measure application performance, reliability, and business impact. Use data to inform decisions and drive continuous improvement.
- Stay ahead of industry trends, emerging technologies, and best practices. Drive innovation in technical product offerings.
- Ensure technical products align with architectural standards, enterprise priorities, and long-term strategic goals. Make trade-offs that optimize for scalability and sustainability.
Education: Bachelor’s & Equivalent experience
Skills: Business Analysis, Technical Product Ownership, Agile Scrum, Product Backlog Management, Requirements Gathering, Stakeholder Management, Product Roadmap Development, Process Mapping, Data-Driven Decision Making, Cross-Functional Collaboration.
About US Tech Solutions:
US Tech Solutions is a global staff augmentation firm providing a wide range of talent on-demand and total workforce solutions. To know more about US Tech Solutions, please visit www.ustechsolutions.com.
US Tech Solutions is an Equal Opportunity Employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, disability, or status as a protected veteran.
Recruiter Details:
Name: Akib
Email: akib@ustechsolutionsinc.com
Internal Id: 26-04879