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About the Role

The Royal Caribbean Group’s Travel Platforms Team has an exciting career opportunity for a full time IT Product Owner. This role is ideal for a builder–product hybrid who can develop automation solutions using Python, work closely with business stakeholders to refine requirements, and drive delivery in an Agile environment. The candidate will play a critical role in bridging business, product, and engineering, while independently building scalable solutions to improve operational efficiency.

Responsibilities

• Design and develop automation workflows and tools using Python
• Build data pipelines and transformations using Pandas and DuckDB
• Develop lightweight APIs and services using FastAPI
• Optimize data processing and performance for large datasets
• Troubleshoot and debug technical issues across the stack
• Collaborate with business stakeholders to gather and refine requirements
• Convert business needs into user stories and functional/technical specifications
• Drive clarity in ambiguous problem statements
• Ensure requirements are implementation-ready for development
• Act as an Individual Contributor within Agile PODs
• Participate actively in sprint planning, backlog refinement, daily stand-ups, and retrospectives
• Prioritize work based on business value and technical feasibility
• Take ownership of end-to-end delivery of solutions
• Work with structured/unstructured data to derive insights and automation opportunities
• Design scalable solutions aligned with platform architecture
• Ensure data accuracy, integrity, and performance
• Partner with product teams, engineering teams, and business stakeholders
• Serve as a bridge between technical and non-technical teams
• Communicate solutions clearly to leadership

Requirements

• Minimum 5+ years of experience in Technical Product Management / Technical Lead roles OR Software Engineering with strong product exposure
• Proven experience working in Agile environments
• Strong hands-on development experience in Python
• Deep expertise in Pandas (data manipulation)
• Deep expertise in DuckDB (analytics/data querying)
• Experience building APIs using FastAPI
• Strong understanding of data processing pipelines
• Strong understanding of performance optimization
• Strong understanding of debugging and troubleshooting
• Strong understanding of product lifecycle
• Strong understanding of Agile methodologies
• Ability to write clear user stories
• Ability to drive backlog refinement
• Ability to prioritize effectively
• Experience in the Travel industry (preferred)
• Experience in Cruise / booking / reservation systems (preferred)
• Understanding of end-to-end travel journeys (search, booking, payments) (preferred)
• Strong analytical and problem-solving mindset
• Excellent communication and stakeholder management
• Ability to operate independently as an IC
• High ownership and accountability

Skills

• Python
• Pandas
• DuckDB
• FastAPI
• Agile methodologies
• Product lifecycle management
• Data processing pipelines
• Performance optimization
• Debugging
• Troubleshooting
• User story writing
• Backlog refinement
• Prioritization
• Stakeholder management

Work Type

• Full time

Experience Level

• 5+ years

Benefits

• Competitive compensation and benefits package
• Excellent career development opportunities

About the Company

• Royal Caribbean Group is the vacation-industry leader with global brands — including Royal Caribbean International, Celebrity Cruises and Silversea Cruises — the most innovative fleet and private destinations, and the best people.
• Together, they are dedicated to turning the vacation of a lifetime into a lifetime of vacations for our guests.

Equal Opportunity

• It is the policy of the Company to ensure equal employment and promotion opportunity to qualified candidates without discrimination or harassment on the basis of race, color, religion, sex, age, national origin, disability, sexual orientation, sexuality, gender identity or expression, marital status, or any other characteristic protected by law. Royal Caribbean Group and each of its subsidiaries prohibit and will not tolerate discrimination or harassment.