Salary £60k - £70k, salary depending on skills and experience

Permanent

Full time, 37 hours a week

Hybrid working & Lincoln, Huntingdon or Peterborough Office

Anglian Water offers a flexible approach, this role provides you the flexibility to work from home and from an Anglian Water office. Your base location will either be in our Lincoln, Huntingdon or Peterborough office.

Join us as a Technical Product Owner – driving strategic platform innovation to deliver real business value.

As a Technical Product Owner, you'll play a pivotal role in shaping and enhancing a key technology platform that underpins critical services across our organisation. Acting as the bridge between business vision and technical execution, you'll translate strategy into actionable delivery through close collaboration with stakeholders across Product, Engineering, Architecture, and the wider business.

You’ll be accountable for the platform’s roadmap and feature set, ensuring it consistently meets the evolving needs of both colleagues and business stakeholders. Using Agile-Scrum methodologies, you’ll lead with a focus on value-driven outcomes, working alongside digital, data, and technology teams to set a clear vision, mission, and objectives for the platform.

This is a senior-level role requiring strong stakeholder engagement, strategic thinking, and technical fluency. You’ll help shape the platform’s purpose, maintain a strong value proposition, and ensure enhancements align with broader organisational goals — all while optimising performance, scalability, and security.

Your roadmap will serve as a strategic north star: a clear, value-focused direction that guides the platform team and provides stakeholders with transparency and confidence. Working within a collaborative and innovative environment, you’ll ensure stable delivery, foster shared ownership, and continuously improve both the platform and how the team works.

Success in this role means understanding market and industry trends, staying aligned with technology best practices, and balancing priorities across new feature development, platform maintenance, technical debt, and cybersecurity. This is your opportunity to lead with impact and deliver tangible value in a dynamic, forward-thinking environment.

What You’ll Be Doing

Agile Product Ownership & Platform Mindset

• Demonstrate a strong working knowledge of the Technical Product Owner role.

• Apply Agile methodologies, Agile development, and Lean Thinking in day-to-day work.

• Understand team roles and the distinction between Product Teams and Feature Teams.

• Adopt a “platform as a product” mindset, aligning with long-term strategy and vision.

• Collaborate closely with technical teams, providing strategic context and maintaining focus on goals.

• Identify and deliver service improvements by engaging DDaT and business stakeholders.

Stakeholder Collaboration & Strategic Influence

• Work with business stakeholders to design services that meet business goals.

• Oversee and prioritise strategic changes to services and assess the value of new ideas.

• Support value realisation by monitoring adoption and benefits of new services.

• Collaborate with the Product Community of Practice to guide delivery teams.

• Manage service budgets and contribute to quarterly planning and business reviews.

• Lead on defining service line principles and ensuring adherence.

• Set platform performance targets with the platform leadership team.

• Own and manage strategic risks, issues, and service dependencies.

Vision, Roadmap & Communication

• Co-own the platform vision, roadmap, and goals with the platform leadership team.

• Clearly define and communicate product value and intended outcomes.

• Maintain a golden thread from vision to backlog, ensuring strategic alignment.

• Adapt communication style to engage with stakeholders, users, developers, and delivery teams.

• Collaborate and negotiate effectively across different audiences and teams.

Backlog Ownership & Value Delivery

• Own and maintain a prioritised product backlog focused on delivering incremental value.

• Ensure backlog items are well-defined, deliverable, and understood by the team.

• Promote transparency of backlog and artefacts to foster collaboration.

• Collaborate with the team and third parties on realistic sprint goals and planning.

• Track ROI, apply FinOps principles, and monitor cost to serve and run state expenses.

Business Understanding & Performance Insight

• Develop a strong understanding of the business context, customer needs, and user journeys.

• Monitor key performance indicators to inspect product health and support decision-making.

• Track budget spend through a finance burn-down, managing resource usage effectively.

What does it take to be a Technical Product Owner?

• Degree or equivalent experience

• Strong facilitation skills

• Holds a strong appreciation for both business and technology

• Understanding of how to construct lean product Delivery (Minimal Marketable Feature Set)

• In-depth knowledge of Agile process and principles

• You’re energetic, positive and an excellent communicator

• You’re going to need to translate technical jargon into understandable language for the business

• Organisation and team collaboration are part of your DNA

• Previous experience using Azure DevOps

• Proven track record in delivering scalable and robust web applications

• You have a coaching mentality - Help the team balance building the right thing, building the thing right and the iterative delivery of value

• Proven stakeholder management experience

As a valued employee, you’ll be entitled to:

• Full private healthcare with no excess

• 26 days leave, rising with service + Bank Holidays, with the option to swap Christmas and Easter holidays for those celebrated by your religion

• A flexible working culture

• Competitive pension scheme – we double-match your contributions up to 6%

• Life Assurance at eight times your salary

• Personal Accident cover – up to 5x your salary

• Bonus Scheme

• Lots of great discounts

• Flexible benefits to support your wellbeing and lifestyle

• Paid time off when you’re physically and mentally unwell

• An excellent Family Leave package – to help you support your family

Why Anglian Water?

This is an exciting opportunity to play a pivotal role in shaping the future of a business-critical technology platform. As a Technical Product Owner, you’ll be at the heart of driving strategic change, leading a product that delivers tangible value to both colleagues and the wider business.

If you’re passionate about bridging the gap between technology and business, enjoy solving complex problems, and want to make a lasting impact — this is the role for you.

Closing date: 10th August 2025

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