Technical Product Owner

We have landed! When it comes to innovation and achievement, there are few organisations with a better track record. Join us as we embark on an ambitious journey, evolving our digital commerce platforms and building scalable, resilient, and innovative foundations that enable seamless customer experiences across web, mobile, and connected channels.

Finding brilliant tech talent is vital to the future of easyJet. With opportunities to work across the technology that powers our app, website, and other digital touchpoints, you’ll help connect over 100 million customers to thousands of their favourite destinations!

As a Technical Product Owner within the eCommerce Platform Delivery team, you will take accountability for one or more squads within a defined Mission. Your focus will be on the services and capabilities owned by those squads, ensuring they are secure, performant, and aligned with enterprise architecture standards.

Working closely with Engineers, Architects, Product Managers, and business stakeholders, you will translate business and technical requirements into actionable backlog items that drive both customer value and technical excellence. Your work will contribute directly to the evolution of easyJet’s eCommerce platforms, ensuring they meet today’s needs while enabling future innovation.

What you'll be doing

Own and prioritise the backlog for one or more squads within a Mission, ensuring alignment with the Mission vision and roadmap

Translate business and Mission needs into clear user stories, requirements, and acceptance criteria

Work with stakeholders and subject matter experts to analyse needs, define business processes, and ensure requirements are understood across teams

Validate requirements and maintain traceability to outcomes, supporting clarity, prioritisation, and change management

Balance functional delivery with scalability, security, performance, and compliance requirements in partnership with engineers and architects

Act as a bridge between business processes and technical delivery, ensuring that legacy-modern integration challenges are well understood and addressed in backlog items

Ensure non-functional requirements such as availability, resilience, and monitoring are built into delivery

Support agile ceremonies, manage dependencies, and ensure squads deliver value consistently

Capture learnings from incidents and feed them into backlog improvements

Contribute squad input to the Mission roadmap, balancing near-term delivery with longer-term platform evolution

Promote automation, DevOps practices, and continuous delivery to drive efficiency and reliability

Engage business stakeholders and external partners to align delivery with priorities and ensure outcomes meet agreed standards

Provide transparent communication on squad progress, risks, and value delivered against Mission objectives

Requirements of the Role

What you'll bring to the team

Proven experience as a Product Owner, Technical Product Owner, or similar role in a technology-driven organisation, ideally across multiple squads within a Mission

Proven experience working with backend systems and large, high-transactional databases, querying data using SQL, performing data analysis on large data sets

Strong understanding of data, data quality and consistency, and data lineage

Strong understanding of agile delivery, engineering practices, and product lifecycle management

Proficiency in leveraging AI tools to enhance everyday tasks and operations

Hands-on experience with integration platforms, cloud services, and CI/CD pipelines

Experience working with event-driven architectures, data modelling, or backend integration platforms

Ability to structure and prioritise backlogs to deliver measurable value and technical outcomes

Ability to manage technical debt and legacy system constraints while enabling platform evolution

Skilled at translating complex technical concepts into clear, business-friendly communication

Strong requirements analysis skills, including capturing business needs, mapping processes, and defining acceptance criteria

Familiarity with data governance, security, and compliance requirements for customer and booking data

Experience creating and managing user stories, functional/non-functional requirements, and BA artefacts to support delivery

Understanding of modern software development, integration patterns, and cloud-based architectures

Ability to balance data quality, compliance, and performance in backlog prioritisation and delivery planning

Experience within airline, travel, or large-scale eCommerce platforms is advantageous

What we can offer you

Competitive base salary

Up to 20% bonus

25 days holiday

BAYE, SAYE & Performance share schemes

7% pension

Life Assurance

Flexible benefits package

(Work Away) enabling you to work abroad for up to 30 working days per year.

Excellent staff travel benefits

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