Technical Product Owner Contractor

Roles and Responsibilities

• Design and support technology solutions that meet business needs and align with enterprise architectural standards.
• Define interaction requirements for components, subsystems, and interfaces to create solution-specific blueprints.
• Convert solution elements into blueprint designs that meet project requirements and enterprise security needs.
• Support architectural activities across a portfolio of solutions, ensuring consistency, scalability, and reuse.
• Collaborate with stakeholders to gather requirements and provide technical expertise in solution architecture.
• Own the product backlog by decomposing epics and business vision into developer-ready features and user stories.
• Partner with engineering and architecture teams to design scalable, reusable enterprise data platform capabilities.
• Define and govern batch and streaming data ingestion and integration patterns across the platform.
• Support SAFe Agile / LPM ceremonies, including PI planning, iteration goals, and backlog refinement.
• Incorporate agentic AI and LLM-based automation into platform development workflows.
• Align stakeholders on technical tradeoffs, platform roadmap, and delivery priorities.
• Ensure platform capabilities are cloud-native, scalable, and reusable across enterprise consumers.
• Create reusable data integration and ingestion capabilities for systems of record and make data available in the platform.
• Build capabilities to catalog acquired data for discoverability and governance.
• Independently derive detailed implementation approaches, architecture decisions, and engineering specifications from business vision.

Key Skills

• Apache Kafka — Expert (10+ years)
• Kafka Development — Advanced (6–9 years)
• Databricks — Advanced (6–9 years)
• Python, PySpark, and PyFlink
• ETL/ELT batch and streaming patterns
• Kafka Connect, Debezium, and CDC
• Azure, GCP, Terraform, and Kubernetes

Pay

The expected pay range for this contract assignment is $65 - $70 per hour, will vary based on skills, experience, and location, and will be determined by the third-party whose employees provide services to Deloitte.