Job Title: Senior Technical Product Owner
Location: Leyland, Preston
Salary: Competitive
dnata Travel Group B2B is the UK’s biggest B2B-only tour operator and comprises of flagship brand Gold Medal and three specialist brands – Pure Luxury, Cruise Plus and Incredible Journeys. We pride ourselves on our truly ‘agents-first’ approach and our strong mutually beneficial and supportive relationships with a huge range of supplier partners across the industry. We are part of the Emirates group.
We are now recruiting for a Senior Technical Product Owner who is accountable for maximising the value delivered by their team backlog across each iteration and quarterly planning cycle. The role focuses on outcomes over outputs, ensuring backlog priorities align to defined product objectives and support delivery of measurable business and customer value.
The TPO translates product direction and prioritised epics into well-defined backlog items, clear acceptance criteria and actionable delivery plans. They operate as the point of accountability for backlog quality, readiness and execution, ensuring a balanced mix of feature, functional, non-functional, BAU, technical debt and enabler work.
The TPO collaborates closely with Product Management, Delivery Management and Engineering to ensure alignment between strategy, Product Requirements Document (PRD), product roadmap and execution. They hold end-to-end responsibility for eliciting, analysing, validating, specifying, verifying and managing business requirements.
The TPO owns the team-level quarterly roadmap following QP planning, ensuring alignment to PRDs, priorities and delivery commitments, maintains focus on current and upcoming iterations, and ensures backlogs are prepared, prioritised and optimised to enable predictable and effective delivery.
Hours: Full Time 37.5 hours per week
Job Accountabilities
Value Ownership & Outcomes:
Own the optimisation of value delivery through the team backlog
Translate defined product outcomes into prioritised, value-driven backlog items
Ensure backlog prioritisation reflects business value, risk, dependencies and capacity
Define and track success measures for delivered work, enabling continuous optimisation of BAU and incremental improvements
Backlog Management & Execution:
Own and maintain a high-quality, balanced team backlog post QP planning
Ensure backlog prioritisation aligns with TPM-defined outcomes and roadmap direction
Ensure backlog covers feature, functional, non-functional (NFR), BAU, technical debt, spikes and enabler work
Maintain strong backlog readiness with clear, concise user stories and acceptance criteria
Lead backlog refinement, grooming and 3-amigo sessions to ensure work is delivery ready
Continuously prioritise and optimise backlog based on capacity, dependencies and emerging demand
Requirements Management & Analysis:
Hold end-to-end accountability for eliciting, analysing, validating, specifying, verifying and managing business requirements
Assess end-to-end impact of changes from both business and technical perspectives
Ensure requirements are well-defined, testable and aligned to agreed outcomes and design intent
Maintain integrity and quality of features within defined technical and team boundaries
Delivery Alignment & Governance:
Collaborate closely with Product Management, Technical Product Management, Delivery Management and Engineering to align teams backlog to QP roadmap
Represent the team backlog in key planning and governance forums
Ensure Service Desk, BAU and operational demand are analysed and prioritised within team capacity
Identify and manage dependencies and risks within the team scope, escalating where required
Support system demos, iteration reviews and QP Inspect & Adapt sessions to demonstrate delivered value
Represent the team backlog in key planning and governance forums, including QP Planning
Planning & Iteration Readiness:
Own the quarterly roadmap at team level following QP planning
Maintain focus on current and upcoming iterations, ensuring pipeline of ready work
Prepare and sequence backlog items to enable predictable, continuous and flow based delivery
Work with Delivery Management to balance workload across planned and unplanned demand
Continuous Improvement & Collaboration:
Identify and prioritise improvements across BAU, service issues and delivery practices
Contribute to TPO community of practice to improve consistency, capability and ways of working
Capture and promote team-driven innovation ideas, aligning with wider product and TPM direction
Drive continuous backlog and requirement quality improvement to enhance delivery efficiency
To be considered for this role, we need you to have the following skills, experience and qualifications:
Demonstrable Agile methodology experience, preferably within a Scaled Agile Framework
For this role you have 3+ years of proven experience working in Agile Delivery, either as a Business Analysis or Technical Product Owner
3 or more years travel industry experience required
AQP schemas (XML and/or JSON)
Business acumen and strategic thinking
Understanding of business analysis principles, processes and techniques
Ability to think analytically, solve problems to complex business processes, and document results
Ability to communicate complex ideas in a clear, concise manner across functional and technical departments
Ability to develop and prepare process models, functional specifications, and technical requirements
The candidate must be process-oriented with sound judgment, attention to detail, accuracy, and follow-through including the flexibility to perform in an ever-changing work environment
The candidate must be energetic, driven and committed to project success while working under tight time constraints and pressure
The ability to perform industry research to clarify, define, or satisfy technology or business process issues
This role is based at our bright, modern office in Leyland, just 10 minutes from junctions 28 & 29 of the M6. We have some fantastic benefits, making us a great place to work:
We have some fantastic benefits, making us a great place to work:
Travel discounts – we have a dedicated Staff Travel Team to help you plan your next adventure
25 days annual leave, increasing to 28 days after 5 full years of service (+ bank holidays)
Additional annual leave purchase scheme
Company pension scheme
Life assurance
Low-cost health care for you and your family
Employee Assistance programme
Mental Health First Aiders
Ongoing development – we have an in-house People Development Team
Industry/social events – including supplier events, office socials & parties and pop-up shops
Cycle to work scheme
Reward & recognition programme
Belong programme - Employee Resource Groups (ERGs) that play a crucial role in implementing our DEI strategy
Volunteer days – one day’s paid leave each year to volunteer with a registered charity
dnata4good – supporting the local communities we work, live and thrive in
Refer a friend scheme
Free eye care tests
Free Taste Card membership– offering discounts on dining out, movies, attractions, takeaways and online shopping
Casual dress code
Free tea and coffee, subsidised on-site restaurant with free wifi and free car parking
