Lead Technical Product Owner

At Costa Coffee, we are what we craft. We’re reimagining coffee experiences in over 50 countries and counting, as a key part of the Coca-Cola System. Whether you get your coffee in a store, from a machine, at home, or on the go – we’ve got you covered.

Our teams make a difference. Whether that’s working on new tech for the perfect pour, helping our teams grow, creating award-winning campaigns, crunching the numbers, or developing the latest exciting menu item; together, we stir up success.

We may be a global brand, but we haven’t forgotten our roots. That’s where the Costa Foundation and our fantastic community agenda come in. Whatever your role, you can help us change lives in coffee growing communities and help your local community too.

We also want to help you grow in your career through amazing experiences, our apprenticeship scheme, and development programmes. At Costa, you can go beyond the day-to-day.

And as a Lead Technical Product Owner  in our Data & AI team,  there’s never been a better time to join.

So, why Costa?

We didn’t become a global coffee brand by sitting back. When you work here, you join a community that values passion, progression and integrity, with some pretty brilliant perks to sweeten the deal:

• Own a piece of Costa’s success by becoming a share owner in Coca-Cola with our Share Investment Plan (SIP)
• A smart pension that saves you money on tax and national insurance, and matches your contributions up to 10%
• The Costa Financial Support Fund, supporting team members who find themselves in unexpected financial pressure
• 50% discount in all Costa-owned stores, and 25% off in other participating stores
• Private medical cover thanks to our Private Healthcare scheme
• And that’s not all. Explore even more of our perks here: https://bit.ly/costaperks

We’re passionate about being a great place to work, where you can bring your unique self into our mix. We firmly support diversity, equity and inclusion, and continue to work with our teams to shape the future of our culture and values: Disciplined to Deliver, Passion for Progress, Win with Warmth, Courage to Challenge and Trusted Team Players.

What you’ll do

Being a Lead Technical Product Owner in data products is about so much more than bringing our coffee to the world. It’s your chance to stir up real success - which means you’ll:

• Take full ownership of one or more enterprise data platforms, driving the vision, strategy, and roadmap to ensure alignment with business goals.
• Help oversee the integration of master data entities across various platforms ensuring consistency, accuracy & scalability and ensuring they meet business requirements.
• Acts as product steward ensuring that all requests, initiatives, and projects with requirements for the team are in line with overall vision.
• Oversee development and take accountability for team delivery.
• Maintain a technical understanding of the Data Product team’s deliveries/product/platform and supports architects, business analysts, users and others on leveraging technology to maximize business value to the organisation from the team and its product.

Who you are

It’s your unique ingredients we’re interested in:

• Experience as a data product owner, or technical analyst – experience defining requirements, documenting systems, integration flows and data processes.
• Enterprise data ecosystem experience, especially master data management (Product, Customer, Site etc.)
• Agile methodologies including estimation, planning and sprints.
• Exceptional requirements gathering and definition skills.
• Ability to influence other teams and stakeholders and proactively communicate and maintain alignment and clarity with other partners and internal customers.
• Excellent verbal and written communication, experience maintaining lightweight living technical documentation.

Location – Loudwater or London– Hybrid