Product Owner - Cloud Landing Zone Services (Google Cloud)
Technology, Data & Digital · IT Infrastructure & Security · Cloud Engineering · Software Engineering · Product Management
In short
Nordea is seeking a technically strong Product Owner to lead its Google Cloud Landing Zone Services. This hybrid role combines product ownership with hands-on cloud engineering, focusing on strategy, roadmap, backlog prioritization, and active contribution to Terraform development, architecture, and automation. The ideal candidate will bridge business and technical teams to ensure a secure, scalable, and efficient cloud platform.
Responsibilities
- Define and own the product vision, strategy, and roadmap for Google Cloud Landing Zone Services.
- Prioritize platform capabilities, balancing business demand, security, compliance, and technical debt.
- Maintain and prioritize the product backlog in collaboration with Cloud PM.
- Define and track KPIs, adoption metrics, reliability targets, and customer satisfaction.
- Actively contribute to Terraform and Infrastructure as Code (IaC) development.
- Conduct code reviews and pull request approvals.
- Review and challenge technical designs and implementation approaches.
- Support engineering teams with solution design, troubleshooting, and decision-making.
- Contribute to CI/CD pipelines, platform standards, and reusable modules.
- Ensure services meet Nordea's security, resilience, and compliance requirements.
- Partner with Enterprise Architecture, Security, Risk, and Operations teams.
- Drive standardization and simplification of cloud platform services.
- Evolve the Landing Zone to support AI, Data, Kubernetes, Serverless, and Developer Platforms.
- Engage with Google Cloud vendor on roadmap alignment.
- Identify opportunities for optimization, automation, and cost reduction.
- Build relationships across engineering, application, security, architecture, and business teams.
- Gather platform consumer feedback and translate it into roadmap priorities.
- Drive consensus and decision-making across multiple stakeholders.
- Represent Cloud Engineering in governance, transformation, and audit activities.
Requirements
- 8+ years of Cloud Engineering experience.
- 3+ years of Product Owner, Platform Owner, Technical Lead, Lead Engineer, or Architect experience.
- Experience operating enterprise-scale cloud platforms.
- Experience working within Agile delivery models.
- Experience managing technical roadmaps and backlogs.
- Strong experience with Terraform.
- Strong experience with Infrastructure as Code.
- Strong experience with GitHub or Git-based development workflows.
- Strong experience with Pull Request reviews.
- Strong experience with CI/CD pipelines.
- Strong experience with Cloud security controls.
- Strong experience with Kubernetes and container platforms.
- Strong experience with Networking and cloud connectivity.
- Strong experience with Identity and Access Management.
- Strong experience with Observability and monitoring tooling.
- Excellent stakeholder management skills.
- Strong communication and influencing skills.
- Strategic mindset with hands-on execution capability.
- Ability to challenge and drive decisions across senior stakeholders.
- Strong analytical and problem-solving skills.
Desired Qualifications
- This is not a traditional Product Owner position; requires a technical Product Owner who can define strategy, prioritize backlog, review Terraform pull requests, and challenge architectural decisions.
Benefits
- Hybrid working model.
- Opportunities to evolve, develop and learn from brilliant colleagues with diverse backgrounds.
- A culture that fosters performance and growth.
- Various opportunities to evolve, develop and learn.
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Company
Nordea
Job Posted
1 month ago
Expires
Potentially expired
Employment Type
Full Time
WorkMode
Hybrid
Experience Level
Senior
Locations
Gdańsk, Poland
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