Technical product owner

job summary:
Our West Michigan Client has a long term contract role open for a Technical Product Owner. This is a remote role with occasional visits to the client site in West Michigan.

location: Grand Rapids, Michigan
job type: Contract
salary: $50 - 70 per hour
work hours: 8am to 5pm
education: Bachelors


responsibilities:

• Own the backlog and the roadmap
• Diagnose production, not just describe it
• Own release readiness and the release decision
• Manage the integration and vendor surface
• Raise the platform's engineering leverage

qualifications:
6+ years in product ownership, technical program management, or engineering on a large-scale transactional commerce platform, with 3+ years owning a platform or domain end to end.

Hands-on SAP Commerce Cloud (Hybris) experience

Technical fluency. You can read Java and Spring configuration, reason about a SQL execution plan, interpret a distributed trace, and tell a cache problem from a locking problem from a capacity problem.

Production incident ownership

Data-driven prioritization. Comfort querying logs and telemetry yourself to size a problem before committing engineering capacity to it.

Azure DevOps

Preferred Qualifications

Grocery, retail, or omnichannel commerce domain experience

Order management and fulfillment integration experience

Knowledge of Kafka event-driven integration

Observability practice

Major platform upgrade or migration experience

AI-assisted engineering workflows - agent instructions, MCP tooling, skill authoring - and the judgment to know where determinism must replace inference.

Feature-flag-driven delivery

skills:
Akamai,JMeter,Kafka,Tomcat,APIM,API,AI,Cloud,cron jobs,Data-driven,data-integration,Logging,database,Dynatrace,Groovy,Hybris,Java,JDK,LLM,log analysis,latency,versioning,marketplace,Azure,Azure DevOps,ADO,Mobile App,Okta,performance testing,React,Redis,SAP,SAP support,Azure SQL,SQL,technical-debt,test suite,wiki,written communication,Coordinate,soft skill,leadership,architecture,automation,Backoffice,business process,business requirements,authoring,CMS,FinOps,Customer Care,dashboards,dashboard,Deliberate,Diagnose,failure modes,glossary,governance,Innovation,instrumentation,layering,tender,general merchandise,omnichannel,order management,product ownership,QA,Investigate,retail,root-cause analysis,Security,safety,Promotions,Commerce Cloud,shopping,inventory,Pricing,technical program management,telemetry,OpenTelemetry,tooling,workflows,written analysis

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Pay offered to a successful candidate will be based on several factors including the candidate's education, work experience, work location, specific job duties, certifications, etc. In addition, Randstad Digital offers a comprehensive benefits package, including: medical, prescription, dental, vision, AD&D, and life insurance offerings, short-term disability, and a 401K plan (all benefits are based on eligibility).


This posting is open for thirty (30) days.