Technical Product Owner Arrow Electronics Inc

Position Summary

Arrow Electronics is transforming its global eCommerce experience through modernization of the Arrow.com digital platform. We are seeking a Technical Product Owner (TPO) to lead the delivery of scalable, secure, and business-aligned digital capabilities. As part of the IT organization, the TPO plays a critical liaison role between product management (business-owned) and cross-functional scrum teams (IT-owned), ensuring delivery of high-impact digital features, APIs, and platform services.

This role requires deep technical fluency, strong business acumen, and hands-on collaboration with architects, developers, QA, analysts, and business stakeholders across a global enterprise.

Key Responsibilities

Product Ownership & Backlog Management

• Own the product backlog for one or more digital scrum teams supporting Arrow.com

• Translate business requirements, use cases, and platform goals into actionable user stories with clear acceptance criteria

• Drive backlog refinement, sprint planning, and story prioritization in collaboration with product managers and program leads

• Ensure alignment with architecture, security, and compliance standards

Technical & Business Analysis

• Partner with enterprise architects and developers to assess solution feasibility and platform fit

• Facilitate functional and technical requirement gathering with business analysts and domain SMEs

• Support documentation of technical specifications, payload schemas, API contracts, and integration points

• Collaborate with QA to define test cases and align with Definition of Done (DoD)

Program & Cross-Team Coordination

• Participate in cross-team Scrum-of-Scrums and release planning for complex digital initiatives

• Manage dependencies across APIs, frontend components (e.g., Angular, React), and backend services (e.g., Spring Boot, Salesforce, SAP)

• Ensure technical stories, enablers, and architectural spikes are properly represented in planning cycles

• Help align UAT readiness, data flow validation, and SIT coordination across functional teams

Communication & Governance

• Serve as the bridge between Business Product Managers and IT scrum delivery teams

• Provide regular updates on feature readiness, velocity, impediments, and risks

• Ensure alignment to Arrow s enterprise digital governance standards and delivery methodologies (Scrum-Fall)

• Support release managers with documentation needed for production deployment and hypercare readiness