Technical Product Owner

Aspen Technology is hiring a Technical Product Owner in Houston, TX to guide product development for Oil & Gas, refining, petrochemical, and supply chain software. In this onsite role, you will work within a SAFe Agile Release Train, turning product strategy and customer workflows into a prioritized, executable backlog and validating delivered capabilities.

You will collaborate across Product Management, customers, engineering, and architecture to ensure the team delivers the right outcomes, with clear acceptance criteria and a sustainable technical foundation. The work spans PI cadence activities, story-level definition, and continuous improvement using delivery, flow, quality, and customer feedback metrics.

What you’ll do

• Own, refine, and prioritize the team backlog aligned to product vision, roadmap priorities, customer commitments, and PI objectives
• Translate refinery, petrochemical, and supply chain needs into features, user stories, acceptance criteria, and non-functional requirements
• Perform Product Owner responsibilities within SAFe cadence, including PI Planning, backlog refinement, iteration planning, daily team collaboration, reviews, System Demos, and Inspect & Adapt
• Define story value, sequencing, and acceptance criteria, then accept completed work based on agreed outcomes and quality expectations
• Partner with Product Management and customers to understand workflows across planning, scheduling, optimization, inventory, logistics, and distribution
• Collaborate with engineering and architecture to assess feasibility, technical trade-offs, integrations, and dependencies
• Maintain backlog readiness for upcoming iterations, including feature decomposition, estimation support, risk identification, and release planning
• Represent the customer and business perspective while balancing value, usability, quality, and technical sustainability
• Support product demonstrations, release readiness, customer validation, adoption, and issue prioritization
• Use delivery, flow, quality, and customer feedback metrics to drive transparency and continuous improvement

Required qualifications

• Bachelor’s or master’s degree in Chemical Engineering, Computer Science, Industrial Engineering, Supply Chain, Mathematics, Operations Research, or a related field
• 8+ years of relevant experience in technical product ownership, business analysis, product development, or enterprise software delivery
• Practical experience as a Product Owner in SAFe or a comparable Agile framework, including backlog ownership and execution through PI and iteration cadences
• Experience developing software products for Oil & Gas, refining, petrochemical, manufacturing, or supply chain operations
• Working knowledge of refinery and supply chain workflows such as planning, scheduling, optimization, inventory management, logistics, distribution, or demand planning
• Strong ability to convert business and customer needs into clear, testable user stories and acceptance criteria
• Technical aptitude for collaboration across software architecture, data models, APIs, integrations, cloud platforms, and non-functional requirements
• Experience with Agile lifecycle tools such as Azure DevOps (ADO), Jira, or similar
• Strong analytical, facilitation, stakeholder management, communication, writing, and presentation skills

Technologies

• SAFe
• Azure DevOps (ADO), Jira
• C#/.NET, C++, SQL
• APIs, cloud platforms
• DevOps, CI/CD

Nice to have

• Hands-on programming or software development experience, preferably with C#/.NET, C++, SQL, APIs, or enterprise application platforms
• Knowledge of mathematical modeling, numerical methods, optimization, analytics, or decision-support systems
• SAFe Product Owner/Product Manager or related Agile certification
• Experience with cloud-based enterprise products, DevOps, CI/CD, or globally distributed development teams
• Experience working directly with refinery, petrochemical, energy, or supply chain customers