Technical Product Owner

Key Responsibilities:

- Write clear, actionable user stories and acceptance criteria based on prioritized features.
- Maintain, refine, and prioritize the product backlog with the Product Manager.
- Validate completed work against business needs, user value, AI performance, and technical expectations.
- Balance new features, AI enhancements, technical debt, and bugs without compromising velocity or quality.
- Foster a team-oriented, accountable, self-organizing work environment while protecting the team from unnecessary distractions.
- Facilitate Sprint Planning, Sprint Refinements, and Retrospectives.
- Coordinate release planning and deployment readiness with Product, RTM, and engineering leads.
- Identify and eliminate blockers across teams and dependencies.
- Track delivery metrics (velocity, burndown, throughput) and surface insights to improve predictability.

Required Qualifications:

- Strong understanding of REST APIs, authentication (OAuth), payload structures, error codes, and service interactions.
- Ability to review API contracts, debug integration issues, validate request/response flows, and coordinate versioning.
- Experience with event-driven architecture and dependency mapping.
- Familiarity with LLMs (OpenAI, Anthropic,



Azure OpenAI, Llama), model APIs, integration patterns, and safety considerations.
- Ability to analyze structured/unstructured data, logs, and RAG retrieval traces for troubleshooting.
- Familiarity with SQL (read/interpret queries), data models, data validation, schema mapping concepts.
- Understanding of data freshness, content ingestion, and metadata required for RAG.

Technical Skills & Experience:

- API Tools: Postman, Swagger, Insomnia.
- Cloud: Azure (high-level working understanding).
- Delivery tools: Aha, Rally.
- Experience with Agile methodologies and Scrum.
- Strong understanding of DevOps practices and continuous delivery.
- Ability to work with cross-functional teams and stakeholders.
- Experience with version control systems (Git) and agile project management tools.

Preferred Qualifications:

- Experience with cloud-based technologies and platforms.
- Knowledge of machine learning and artificial intelligence concepts.
- Experience with data analysis and visualization tools.
- Ability to communicate complex technical topics to non-technical stakeholders.
- Experience with project management and agile methodologies.

📌 Technical Product Owner (Hyderabad)
🏢 HCL INDIA
📍 Hyderabad