Technical Product Owner (Cloud Landing Zone) - AWS

Quick Facts

Role: Technical Product Owner (Cloud Landing Zone Services) for AWS

Focus: Product ownership combined with hands-on cloud engineering for the AWS landing zone platform

Work model: Hybrid

Description

You will lead the evolution of Nordea’s Cloud Landing Zone Services on AWS, acting as a bridge between business stakeholders and cloud engineering teams. This role requires technical depth and active participation in platform delivery, including defining the product vision and contributing to engineering work such as Terraform development, pull request reviews, architecture design, and platform automation.

Responsibilities

Product Ownership

• Own the AWS product vision, strategy, roadmap, and priorities
• Prioritize 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
• Present roadmap, risks, and achievements to senior leadership and governance forums

Cloud Engineering

• Actively contribute to Terraform and Infrastructure as Code (IaC)
• Conduct code reviews and approve pull requests
• Review and challenge technical designs and implementation approaches
• Support solution design, troubleshooting, and platform engineering decisions
• Contribute to CI/CD pipelines, platform standards, and reusable modules
• Ensure services meet security, resilience, and compliance requirements
• Participate in major incident reviews and platform improvement initiatives

Platform Strategy & Architecture

• Partner with Enterprise Architecture, Security, Risk, and Operations
• Drive standardization and simplification of cloud platform services
• Evolve the landing zone to support AI, Data, Kubernetes, Serverless, and Developer Platforms
• Engage with AWS on roadmap alignment
• Identify opportunities for optimization, automation, and cost reduction

Stakeholder Management & Accountability

• Build relationships across engineering, application, security, architecture, and business teams
• Gather consumer feedback and translate it into roadmap priorities
• Drive consensus and decision-making among multiple stakeholders
• Represent Cloud Engineering in governance, transformation, and audit activities

Success Measures

• Increased consumption of Landing Zone services
• Roadmap commitments delivered
• Reduced platform operational risk and technical debt
• Improved developer experience and onboarding speed
• Increased automation and self-service adoption
• Positive audit and compliance outcomes
• Improved customer satisfaction and high engineering quality/code review standards

Benefits

• Collaboration and ownership culture
• Career growth and learning opportunities in a large Nordic bank
• Hybrid working model
• Diversity and inclusion focus

Requirements

• 8+ years of Cloud Engineering experience
• 3+ years as Product Owner, Platform Owner, Technical Lead, Lead Engineer, or Architect
• Experience operating enterprise-scale cloud platforms
• Experience working within Agile delivery models
• Experience managing technical roadmaps and backlogs