Sr Product Owner - Cloud Software

Opportunity

Location and travel

• The posting lists Oakville, Ontario, and travel of up to 20%.

Backlog ownership and requirements

• Own cloud product, platform, and development-team backlogs; refine and prioritize requirements for development readiness.
• Translate product vision, customer needs, and clinical workflows into epics, features, user stories, and acceptance criteria.
• Identify missing requirements, dependencies, competing priorities, and delivery risks; balance customer needs, technical constraints, regulatory requirements, and release timelines.
• Participate in Agile ceremonies, including sprint planning, reviews, and demonstrations.

Product definition and technical partnership

• Collaborate with Product Management, UI/UX, Engineering, and Test teams to define goals, workflows, user experiences, and functional requirements.
• Anticipate edge cases, workflow variations, permissions, and integrations; help determine MVP scope and future-release priorities.
• Maintain traceability between product requirements, development stories, and delivered functionality.
• Partner with architects and engineering leaders on cloud architecture, microservices, APIs, databases, integrations, security, performance, and scalability.

Engineering delivery and releases

• Coordinate with DevOps on deployment, monitoring, configuration, and operational requirements; ensure infrastructure and technical debt are represented in the backlog.
• Align release priorities with capacity and technical readiness; coordinate requirements and dependencies across teams and platform components.
• Support release planning, demonstrations, stakeholder reviews, and software acceptance; address scope changes, gaps, and delivery risks.
• Work with Quality, Regulatory, and Test teams on traceability, verification, validation, and applicable quality-system procedures.

Required qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Software Engineering, Biomedical Engineering, Information Systems, or a related technical field.
• 10+ years in software product development, software engineering, systems analysis, product ownership, or related technical roles; 5+ years in a product ownership or equivalent role working with software development teams.
• Experience owning complex software backlogs across teams, services, or platform capabilities and translating requirements into detailed, testable stories and acceptance criteria.
• Strong understanding of Agile/Scrum, the software development lifecycle, backlog prioritization, requirements clarification, dependency management, and sprint readiness.
• Strong understanding of microservices, REST APIs, databases, messaging systems, distributed systems, and cloud infrastructure; experience with Azure, AWS, or an equivalent platform.
• Experience with Jira, Azure DevOps, or similar tools; ability to collaborate across Engineering, Architecture, DevOps, QA/Test, UI/UX, Product Management, and other stakeholders.
• Strong communication, facilitation, analytical thinking, and problem-solving skills.

Advantageous experience

• Hands-on background as a Software Engineer, Software Architect, Technical Lead, or Systems Engineer is an asset.
• Azure and cloud-native development, enterprise SaaS, multi-tenant cloud applications, and large-scale distributed systems are advantageous.
• Healthcare, medical devices, clinical applications, regulated industries, IEC 62304, ISO 13485, ISO 14971, cybersecurity, privacy, RBAC, healthcare data protection, HL7, FHIR, and geographically distributed Agile teams are advantageous.

Compensation and benefits

• Expected annual base salary is CAD 115,000–140,000; the role may also be eligible for a company bonus or commission plan.
• Benefits include healthcare coverage starting on the first day, paid statutory holidays, three weeks of vacation, seven sick days, RRSP matching, and tuition reimbursement eligibility.

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