Technical Product Owner - Cloud and Infrastructure
About the role
Cloud & Infrastructure Product Owner – 12-Month Fixed Term Contract
Why You Would Like It
- Shape the future of cloud infrastructure through a strategic multi-year roadmap
- Work across multiple business units in a senior advisory capacity
- Balance strategic vision and technical execution in a highly impactful role
- Be the key liaison between technical teams and leadership, driving tangible outcomes
In this role, you'll be responsible for establishing and articulating a compelling roadmap for cloud and infrastructure initiatives, aligned with broader organisational objectives. You'll champion technical teams while translating complex technical concepts into clear business value, ensuring infrastructure investments deliver maximum impact. Your expertise will help guide the organisation through its cloud transformation journey, balancing immediate needs with long-term strategic goals.
FTC - Details
- 12-month Fixed Term Contract
- Flexible working arrangements available
- Collaborate with diverse stakeholders including executive leadership, architects, engineers, and business partners
- Start date: As soon as possible
- Experience in driving multi-year cloud and infrastructure roadmaps across multiple business units or as a service provider
- Deep expertise in public cloud (Azure, AWS), virtualisation (VMware), containerisation (Docker/Kubernetes), and DevOps practices
- Demonstrable experience as a technical product owner liaison between technical teams, business stakeholders, and leadership—championing team needs, communicating impact in outcome-focused terms, and facilitating data-driven decisions
- Strong product backlog management experience, ideally in Cloud and Infrastructure areas
- Ability to identify, assess, and mitigate risks to scope, schedule, and budget, while maintaining transparent documentation of decisions, trade-offs, and spending rationale
- Proven experience in delivery ensuring commitments are met and the ability to navigate and provide solutions to short-term challenges to achieve long-term goals
- Understanding of Agile principles and associated tooling
- Strategic thinking capability with outstanding written and verbal communication skills
Note: It is essential that you are already in Auckland and have eligibility to work unrestricted in New Zealand.