IoT Product Owner

Description

* #### **Country:** Spain * #### **Province:** Community of Madrid * #### **Description:** Capitole Consulting continues to grow — and we want to grow with you! We are looking for a Technical Product Owner with 6–10 years of experience to join an international technology environment at a leading client. The selected candidate will contribute to the evolution of technical solutions in the \*\*M2M\*\* domain, acting as the functional entry point for the team and coordinating with various Product Owners, Global Product Owners, stakeholders, and technical teams. This is a Technical Product Owner role focused on backend platforms — not solely business-oriented. We seek a candidate with genuine technical background, capable of understanding configurations and logs, holding design discussions with Tech Leads and Architects, and operating effectively within distributed architectures, APIs, cloud environments, and event-driven systems. KEY COMPETENCIES FOR THIS ROLE: · Maintain and prioritize the team’s backlog with sufficient context for estimation. · Write user stories with verifiable acceptance criteria. · Ensure proper Jira management and hygiene. · Track and manage technical debt, negotiating its inclusion across sprints. · Prepare functional analysis in advance of refinement sessions. · Act as the functional entry point for stakeholders and external teams. · Identify, monitor, and escalate external blockers and dependencies. · Coordinate cross-team requests related to certificates, domains, assets, permissions, APIs, and infrastructure. · Coordinate with other M2M-area Product Owners and Global Product Owners. · Prepare and defend quarterly business review (QBR) planning. · Manage features, enablers, epics, Fix Version, PI Planning Sprint, and estimations. · Participate in MidChecks and manage scope trade-offs. · Keep timelines updated and communicate delays and blockers to the PMO. · Work with event-driven distributed architectures. · Understand messaging systems, producers, consumers, and asynchronous processing. · Manage concepts such as idempotency, retries, and cross-system compatibility. · Design or govern APIs and data schemas. · Work with API versioning, compatibility, and documentation. · Reason functionally about AWS and Azure cloud architectures. · Work within scaled Agile frameworks and quarterly planning cycles. · Coordinate multiple international teams and stakeholders. · Ability to prioritize, make decisions, and solve problems autonomously. · Strong communication and collaboration skills. · Practical orientation, autonomy, and ability to maintain strategic vision. TECHNOLOGY STACK / MANDATORY KNOWLEDGE: \* AWS: IoT Core, Kafka / MSK, EKS, Lambda \* Terraform \* APIs \* MongoDB \* Redis \* JSON \* Certificates \* JWT \* MQTT \* Observability \* Event-driven distributed architectures \* Messaging systems / brokers \* AWS / Azure Cloud \* Jira \* Scaled Agile frameworks / QBR / PI Planning DESIRABLE: \* Prior experience as a Technical Product Owner for backend platforms. \* Prior experience in development or working closely with engineering teams. \* Experience with M2M / IoT systems. \* Experience governing APIs and data schemas. \* Experience with quarterly planning and cross-team initiatives. \* Experience working with multiple international stakeholders and teams. \* Experience applying AI within technology environments and PoCs. Languages: English C1 level Work model: Hybrid, 1–2 days per week in the office Location: Madrid, western area We’re great — but with you, we’ll be even better! For this, you’ll get: · An annual individual training budget to continue your professional growth. · Continuous follow-up and support from our team. · A stable project with an internationally recognized client. · A technology environment centered around backend platforms, IoT, cloud, and distributed architectures. · Involvement in critical solutions delivering real business impact. · Collaboration with international technical teams, architects, and stakeholders. · Competitive conditions aligned with your experience and value delivered. To help you meet the whole family: · Team-building activities and team events. · Technology communities to share knowledge. · An environment where you can learn, contribute, and grow professionally. · And, of course, an outstanding team that’s a pleasure to work with. Don’t hesitate to send us your profile — we’re eager to meet you! 🚀 The employee will adhere to information security policies: · Access to confidential information. · Compliance with internal and client policies. · Mandatory NDA signing. · Compliance with client security requirements regarding VPN, devices, antivirus, antimalware, disk encryption, and secure access practices.