Product Owner - Burbank - Akkodis

Description

Akkodis is seeking a Product Owner for a contract role with a client in Burbank, California.

Duration: 10 Months + Possible Ext

Location - Burbank, CA Hybrid)

Pay Range: $60- $65/hr on W2 All Inclusive (The rate may be negotiable based on experience, education, geographic location, and other factors.)

What We Do/Project

As part of the Studio Economics transformation, we are evolving how finance, business, and technology collaborate, shifting to lean-agile, user-centric small product-oriented delivery teams (PODs) that design and deliver integrated, intelligent, and scalable solutions.

The Technical Product Owner (TPO) plays a critical role in this model by translating the product vision into a clear, feasible, and sustainable technical execution plan.

The TPO partners closely with the Business Product Owner, Designers, Engineers, Platform Architects, and Data teams to ensure that solutions are designed and delivered in alignment with our organization's modern architecture standards, platform capabilities, and data strategy. This is a hands-on, embedded role within a product delivery pod.

Job Responsibilities / Typical Day in the Role

Translate Product Vision into Technical Execution

• Partner with the Business Product Owner, designers, and workstream leads to refine the product strategy into an executable technical roadmap.

• Decompose features into clear technical user stories and enablers aligned to agile sprint planning.

• Drive early engagement with platform, security, and data architects to define technical direction and future-proof designs.

Own and Prioritize the Technical Backlog

• Maintain a robust technical backlog including APIs, system integrations, canonical data model extensions, and non-functional enhancements.

• Drive balance between new feature delivery, technical debt management, and system reliability improvements.

• Collaborate with engineering to define clear, testable acceptance criteria that drive high-quality, secure, and scalable outcomes.

Enable Data Stewardship and Integration Integrity

• Ensure technical stories and designs account for end-to-end data handling, from system integration and validation through persistence in governed data stores to downstream application use, reinforcing data integrity, lineage, and alignment with enterprise data standards.

• Partner with platform teams and data engineers to align with shared schemas, governed pipelines, and enterprise data lake practices.

• Advocate for data product thinking-ensuring clarity, completeness, and traceability of data used across Studio Economics systems.

Manage Dependencies and Risks

• Track upstream/downstream dependencies across systems, domains, and platforms (e.g., shared services, source systems, content planning, rights management).

• Surface architectural or integration risks early and align mitigation strategies with relevant platform and domain leads.

• Facilitate coordination across pods and platform teams for shared releases or data-sharing agreements.

Lead Technical Delivery and Decision-Making

• Navigate trade-offs in scope, architecture, and performance to meet product goals while maintaining long-term system integrity.

• Support developers in evaluating and implementing modern practices such as CI/CD, test automation, observability, and fault tolerance.

• Maintain a record of architectural decisions and rationale to inform future development and reduce rework.

Foster Engineering Excellence and Continuous Improvement

• Support technical discovery and spikes for new features or platform capabilities.

• Champion automation, testability, and performance tuning to reduce delivery waste and operational overhead.

• Cultivate a culture of technical curiosity, quality, and iterative learning within the pod.

Must Have Skills / Requirements

1) Experience in software engineering and enterprise systems integration, with a minimum of 3 years in a technical product owner, technical lead, or delivery leadership role in an agile environment

a. 8+ years of experience.

2) Proven ability to lead the delivery of enterprise-scale platforms or applications, including defining and managing technical backlogs across multiple integrated systems

a. 8+ years of experience.

3) Strong fluency in modern architectures (e.g. API-first, event-driven, serverless, microservices) and experience working with data pipelines, data architecture, governed schemas, and platform interfaces

a. 8+ years of experience.

Nice to Have Skills / Preferred Requirements

1) Professional certifications (e.g., Certified Scrum Product Owner CSPO, Professional Scrum Product Owner PSPO I or II, AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner or Solutions Architect Associate) are desirable but not a substitute for hands-on experience

Soft Skills:

Connect the Dots Proactively

1) You build bridges between the product vision and technical delivery, aligning business value with reusable, maintainable system design.

Challenge Constructively

2) You reframe problems to reveal better solutions, question legacy constraints, and lead the team toward future-ready approaches.

Lead through Influence

3) You earn trust through partnership, not authority. You empower engineers while holding space for experimentation and innovation.

Think in Systems

4) You think beyond delivery and understand that data, services, and users don't exist in silos. You optimize for cross-domain interoperability, long-term scalability, and platform alignment.

Drive Clarity in Ambiguity

5) When complexity increases, you simplify. When ambiguity slows the team, you anchor to outcomes and move forward decisively.

Clear, Confident Communication

6) You make complex decisions understandable to business stakeholders while maintaining technical integrity and developer alignment. You can translate architectural choices and delivery trade-offs into outcomes that leadership understands

Bias for Action

7) You anticipate blockers, take initiative, and support the pods' delivery momentum without sacrificing long-term viability.

Technology Requirements:

Technical Fluency

1) Youre comfortable reading API specs, discussing data contracts, and assessing system architecture. You can work shoulder-to-shoulder with engineers.

2) Strong fluency in modern architectures (e.g. API-first, event-driven, serverless, microservices) and experience working with data pipelines, data architecture, governed schemas, and platform interfaces

Enterprise Architecture Awareness

3) You understand platform ecosystems and design with enterprise architecture principles in mind, leveraging shared services, standardized interfaces, and scalable integration frameworks. You advocate for modular, composable solutions that align with layered application architectures and can evolve across use cases, domains, and delivery teams.

Data & Integration Acumen

4) You've worked on integrating disparate systems, aligning data and semantic models, and stewarding data that powers both operational workflows and analytics.

Product Thinking

5) You advocate for user impact and business value, and you understand that sustainable delivery requires a focus on both feature velocity and platform health. You equally care about why and how something is being built.

6) Proven ability to lead the delivery of enterprise-scale platforms or applications, including defining and managing technical backlogs across multiple integrated systems

Education / Certifications

1) Degree in Software Engineering, Computer Science, or related technical discipline required

Interview Process / Next Steps

1) 1st round with HM and Sr. Product Owner

2) 2nd round with Technical VP and separate Product Owner

Equal Opportunity Employer/Veterans/Disabled

Benefit offerings available for our associates include medical, dental, vision, life insurance, short-term disability, additional voluntary benefits, an EAP program, commuter benefits, and a 401K plan. Our benefit offerings provide employees the flexibility to choose the type of coverage that meets their individual needs. In addition, our associates may be eligible for paid leave, including Paid Sick Leave or any other paid leave required by Federal, State, or local law, as well as Holiday pay where applicable. Disclaimer: These benefit offerings do not apply to client-recruited jobs and jobs that are direct hires to a client.

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