Technology Product Owner Senior Specialist

Telstra’s an iconic Aussie brand with a global footprint. Our purpose is to build a connected future so everyone can thrive. We’re Australia’s leading Telco + tech company, spanning over a century with a footprint in over 20+ countries. 

What we offer 

• Flex appeal; work when and from where suits you best 

• Performance-related pay  

• Access to thousands of learning programs so you can level-up  

• 16 weeks paid parental leave, for primary and secondary carers 

• Purchased annual leave scheme 

• Laptop, mobile phone + plan; you’ll never see a phone bill 

• Extra day off per year, for you to use as you like 

• 30% off Telstra Products and Services  

What you’ll do 

• Act as the overarching technical product owner within the Group, partner with Engineering and collaborate with users, stakeholders and product owners across Telstra to align your technical capability vision with the Group and Telstra’s strategic priorities, so that it drives and continually improves modular, reusable technical capabilities and components. 

• Actively manage the end-to-end development, delivery, execution, integration requirements and lifecycle management and optimization of technology products and services to enable risks, issues, dependencies, timeline and costs to be managed. 

• Collaborate with the team, stakeholders and mission product owners to discover usability concerns and functional gaps and generating insights that uncover feature enhancement solutions. 

• Lead the definition, management and scheduling of work to manage the operational lifecycle of the technical capability and applications, including support, maintenance and capacity planning. 

• Partner with engineering in the deployment and execution of operational and business acceptance activity, including managing post-deployment issues from root cause analysis through to resolution. 

• Lead the identification and management of unit cost reduction opportunities, including managing any technology vendors’ design, development, delivery and operation, to continuously improve productivity and cost to operate. 

• Collaborate to shape and influence culture of transparency by producing data to demonstrate and track delivery achievements and concerns, operational performance and health, and providing input to the wider team for capability performance, growth and learning. 

• Develop and champion business cases and funding bids to enable the team to maintain operational performance and deliver their work, and ensure the team operates within its budget constraints. 

• Foster a culture of collective ownership and accountability for the work completed within the team and assist the team to implement effective fit for purpose development and operational practices 

About you 

• Product life cycle management to Delivery, Monitoring, CICD management, Deployment, Testing and Acceptance, GTM planning, Product Release, Incident, Problem and Change Management, Lifecycle Management, user access controls, security, resilience, risk and compliance management 

• You’re a strategic thinker, a natural problem solver, ideally with hands-on experience in Human centred design practices 

• You love to collaborate, communicate and influence as a trusted partner and are experienced in presenting to senior stakeholders 

• System architecture, Integration, Data analytics and management 

• Identification and curation of products and solutions to Competitor review Technology investment/strategy 

• Agile practices, Jira and/or Rally Financial management 

• Project management inc Scrum and SAFe qualifications 

• You’re able to leverage your technology experience in Cyber Security, Incident + Risk management to drive positive outcomes for stakeholders and customers 

• ITIL operations / application management/ delivery management 

• You bring extensive experience in vendor and contract management 

Bonus points for 

• System architecture 

• User story writing 

• Process mapping & design  

• Data Analytics 

• Team Performance Management 

• Certifications in PMPO or something similar