About the Role
As a Technical Product Owner, you will translate business goals into deliverable IT increments, ensuring the successful, budget-conscious, and timely execution of IT and digitalization projects critical to ENERTRAG's mission of sustainably generating renewable energy.
Responsibilities
- Translate business goals into deliverable IT increments for timely and budget-conscious project execution.
- Ensure smooth handover to operations, including runbooks, monitoring, observability, and hypercare, in collaboration with Service Owners and DevOps teams.
- Establish and monitor quality and security standards using Security-by-Design principles.
- Define NFR and performance targets and coordinate test strategies with QA and Engineering.
- Coordinate interfaces and data flows across systems and teams, curating APIs, events, and data contracts.
- Ensure consistent end-to-end data processing.
- Prepare decision papers and gate documents (e.g., architecture or data approvals).
- Actively manage dependencies, risks, and conflicts between projects and stakeholders.
- Collaborate with internal departments, IT, architecture, security, and external partners to ensure integrated and sustainable IT strategy implementation.
- Contribute significantly to ENERTRAG's digitalization and process stability through clear management, quality awareness, and technical excellence.
Requirements
- Completed degree in (Business) Informatics, Industrial Engineering, Business Administration, or a comparable qualification, OR extensive professional experience in digital or IT projects.
- Minimum of five years of experience managing IT products or programs with measurable business impact.
- Experience in project management, process consulting, or portfolio management.
- Sound knowledge of integration and platform ecosystems (ERP, ECM, API Management, BI).
- Experience in designing interfaces, data flows, and data contracts.
- Familiarity with governance and architecture processes, creating/reviewing ADRs, and ensuring target architecture conformity and clean gate processes.
- Proficiency with agile methodologies, product and delivery management, NFR/performance and Security-by-Design principles, and stable CI/CD and monitoring processes.
- Proficient use of tools like Jira, Confluence, and M365.
- Openness to new technologies (e.g., Cloud, Web Services).
- Strong organizational skills, communication skills, and decision-making ability.
- Fluent in German and proficient in English.
Skills
- Project Management
- Process Consulting
- Portfolio Management
- Integration and Platform Ecosystems (ERP, ECM, API Management, BI)
- Interface Design
- Data Flow Design
- Data Contracts
- Governance Processes
- Architecture Processes
- Agile Methodologies
- Product Management
- Delivery Management
- NFR/Performance Principles
- Security-by-Design Principles
- CI/CD Processes
- Monitoring Processes
- Jira
- Confluence
- M365
- Cloud Technologies
- Webservices
Location
- Berlin
- Dauerthal
- Hamburg
- Leipzig
- Dortmund
Work Type
- Full-time
- Part-time
- Flexible Working (Office or Homeoffice)
- Workation (up to 4 weeks per year from EU abroad)
Experience Level
- Minimum five years of experience
Education Level
- Completed degree in (Business) Informatics, Industrial Engineering, Business Administration, or comparable qualification
- Alternatively, extensive professional experience in digital or IT projects
Benefits
- 30 days of vacation
- Workation (up to 4 weeks per year from EU abroad)
- Flexible working arrangements (office or homeoffice)
- Company pension plan contributions
- Childcare subsidy
- Company bicycle program (JobRad)
- Continuing education budget
- Language courses
- Fitness offers (WellHub cooperation)
- Occupational health management
- Accident insurance
- Team events
- Performance bonus
- Investment opportunities in wind turbines
About the Company
- 100% fossil-free energy company with 25 years of experience.
- Develops and implements projects in wind, solar, and green hydrogen.
- Generates, stores, and supplies green energy.
- Over 1,200 employees working on energy projects with over 15 GW capacity worldwide.
- Focuses on digital transformation to make processes, systems, and business models future-proof.
- Drives digital transformation from internal process automation to data-driven decisions.
Equal Opportunity
- ENERTG values skills and motivation, not age, disability, gender, origin, skin color, sexual orientation, or religion.
