Technical Product Owner

Rockwell Automation

Technical Product Owner responsible for driving the engineering backlog and ensuring high-quality outcomes for software teams at Rockwell Automation. Requires strong collaboration with product management and architecture.

Posted 4/28/2026full-timeVerona • 🇮🇹 ItalyMid-LevelSeniorWebsite

Tech Stack

Tools & technologies

Azure

About the role

Key responsibilities & impact

Own and maintain the engineering backlog (epics, capabilities, enablers, and stories), ensuring items are well-defined, prioritized, estimated, and ready for execution by Scrum/Kanban teams.
Translate product requirements, architectural intent, and non-functional requirements into technically sound backlog items with clear acceptance criteria.
Ensure traceability across requirements, design, implementation, and test where required (e.g., regulated or integration-heavy contexts).
Work with Product Managers to agree on product goals, scope, and priorities, while representing engineering feasibility, sequencing, and dependencies.
Collaborate with Architects and Technical Leads to understand and evolve the technical vision, system architecture, and cross-component dependencies.
Support 2–3 cross-functional software teams by providing continuous clarification, fast feedback, on technical scope and trade-offs.
Ensure that quality, security, performance, and operability concerns are addressed early ('shift-left') and explicitly captured in backlog items.
Manage technical risks, dependencies, and integration constraints, escalating and aligning across teams and stakeholders when required.
Support planning and synchronization across distributed, multi-campus teams, contributing to shared milestones, demos, and integration checkpoints.

Requirements

What you’ll need

Bachelor's degree in Engineering, Computer Science, or a related technical field.
3+ years of experience as a Technical Product Owner, Product Owner, System Analyst, or similar role in software-intensive products or platforms.
Strong understanding of software architecture, system integration, and the full software delivery lifecycle, including validation and quality practices.
Proven ability to work with architects, senior engineers, and cross-functional teams to shape technically coherent solutions.
Experience writing clear, testable backlog items with meaningful acceptance criteria and non-functional requirements.
Fluent in English (multi-campus / distributed environment).
Familiarity with Agile and ALM tools (e.g., Jira, Jama, Jira Align, Azure DevOps, Teams).

Benefits

Comp & perks

Volunteer Paid Time off available after 6 months of employment for eligible employees
Company volunteer and donation matching program – Your volunteer hours or personal cash donations to an eligible charity can be matched with a charitable donation.
On-demand digital course library for professional development
Comprehensive mindfulness programs with a premium membership to Calm
Employee Assistance Program
Personalized wellbeing programs through our OnTrack program
Other local benefits!

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Hard Skills & Tools

software architecturesystem integrationsoftware delivery lifecyclebacklog managementacceptance criterianon-functional requirementstechnical risk managementquality practicesAgile methodologiesScrum

Soft Skills

collaborationcommunicationproblem-solvingprioritizationstakeholder managementclarificationfeedbacktechnical feasibility assessmentdependency managementplanning