Technical Product Owner
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Job Summary Our West Michigan Client has a long term contract role open for a Technical Product Owner. This is a remote role with occasional visits to the client site in West Michigan.
location
Grand Rapids, Michigan
job type: Contract
salary: $60 - 70 per hour
work hours: 8am to 5pm
education: Bachelors
Responsibilities
- Own the backlog and the roadmap
- Diagnose production, not just describe it
- Own release readiness and the release decision
- Manage the integration and vendor surface
- Raise the platform's engineering leverage
Qualifications
6+ years in product ownership, technical program management, or engineering on a large-scale transactional commerce platform, with 3+ years owning a platform or domain end to end.
Hands-on SAP Commerce Cloud (Hybris) experience
Technical fluency. You can read Java and Spring configuration, reason about a SQL execution plan, interpret a distributed trace, and tell a cache problem from a locking problem from a capacity problem.
Production incident ownership
Data-driven prioritization. Comfort querying logs and telemetry yourself to size a problem before committing engineering capacity to it.
Azure DevOps
Preferred Qualifications
Grocery, retail, or omnichannel commerce domain experience
Order management and fulfillment integration experience
Knowledge of Kafka event-driven integration
Observability practice
Major platform upgrade or migration experience
AI-assisted engineering workflows - agent instructions, MCP tooling, skill authoring - and the judgment to know where determinism must replace inference.
Feature-flag-driven delivery
Skills
Akamai,JMeter,Kafka,Tomcat,APIM,API,AI,Cloud,cron jobs,Data-driven,data-integration,Logging,database,Dynatrace,Groovy,Hybris,Java,JDK,log analysis,latency,versioning,marketplace,Azure,Azure DevOps,ADO,Mobile App,LLM inference,Okta,performance testing,React,Redis,SAP,SAP support,Azure SQL,SQL,technical-debt,test suite,wiki,written communication,Coordinate,soft skill,leadership,architecture,automation,Backoffice,business process,business requirements,authoring,CMS,FinOps,Customer Care,dashboards,dashboard,Deliberate,Diagnose,failure modes,glossary,governance,Innovation,instrumentation,layering,tender,general merchandise,omnichannel,order management,product ownership,QA,Investigate,retail,root-cause analysis,Security,safety,Promotions,Commerce Cloud,shopping,inventory,Pricing,technical program management,telemetry,OpenTelemetry,tooling,workflows,written analysis
Equal Opportunity Employer: Race, Color, Religion, Sex, Sexual Orientation, Gender Identity, National Origin, Age, Genetic Information, Disability, Protected Veteran Status, or any other legally protected group status.
At Randstad Digital, we welcome people of all abilities and want to ensure that our hiring and interview process meets the needs of all applicants. If you require a reasonable accommodation to make your application or interview experience a great one, please contact HRsupport@randstadusa. com.
Pay offered to a successful candidate will be based on several factors including the candidate's education, work experience, work location, specific job duties, certifications, etc. In addition, Randstad Digital offers a comprehensive benefits package, including: medical, prescription, dental, vision, AD&D, and life insurance offerings, short-term disability, and a 401K plan (all benefits are based on eligibility).
This posting is open for thirty (30) days.