Product Owner - Enterprise Integration Layer & CRDS

About our company

“We partner with Europe to empower and enhance a sustainable energy market”.

Located in Luxembourg, we are a service company that hosts Europe's single leading trading platform(e-CAT) for cross-border transmission capacity. On behalf of TSOs, we auction the available long and short-term transmission capacity rights on all internal EU borders.

On the 1st of October 2018, JAO became the Single Allocation Platform (SAP) for all European Transmission System Operators (TSOs) that operate in accordance with EU legislation, since it is able to implement and fulfill all regulatory obligations and requirements. We provide accounting (clearing and settlement), contracting, reporting and project support services.

About the job

Role purpose / mission

Your mission is to help build a new integration product from the ground up and turn it into working capabilities that deliver practical value across JAO.

The Enterprise Integration Layer will handle substantial daily data flows. In this role, you will connect business needs, application-team requirements, and technical expertise to shape its development and adoption.

You will champion incremental delivery and experimentation while keeping data quality, reliability, and maintainability central to decisions.

We are looking for someone who creates momentum in ambiguity and delivers useful outcomes, not someone who waits for a complete specification or limits their contribution to organising the backlog.

Why this role?

You will help create a new product from its foundations, influencing how JAO's applications exchange data and how teams benefit from shared integration capabilities.

Ownership and mandate

You are the owner of the product's direction, health, and continued improvement. You facilitate prioritization with relevant stakeholders rather than deciding it unilaterally, while actively progressing delivery and adoption within agreed objectives.

To be clear, this is not a service-support or incident-management role. Dedicated teams handle operational support and incident resolution. Your responsibility is to understand the impact on the platform and its consumers, ensure necessary improvements receive appropriate prioritization, and follow through on agreed action.

Finally, technical design, implementation, testing, security approval, and service operations remain with the relevant specialists. You connect their contributions, challenge gaps, and escalate blockers until the intended value can be demonstrated.

Key activities in the position:

Shape the product around real needs

• Develop the product vision with business stakeholders, application owners, the Tech Lead, and architects.
• Understand consuming teams as internal customers, identifying their problems, constraints, and expected benefits.
• Challenge integration requests to establish the underlying need and simplest effective solution.
• Validate assumptions through focused discovery, prototypes, or experiments before committing to broader development.
• Help distinguish reusable platform capabilities from needs better addressed through a simpler or specific solution.

Facilitate priorities and maintain direction

• Maintain a roadmap and backlog reflecting agreed priorities and intended outcomes.
• Facilitate prioritisation with project managers, service managers, application owners, and technical teams.
• Make business value, dependencies, delivery effort, data risks, and operational implications explicit.
• Bring recommendations and practical alternatives to resolve competing demands.
• Ensure decisions happen in time to support delivery and that relevant teams understand changes and commitments.
• Escalate unresolved trade-offs with clear options and recommendations.

Drive incremental delivery and adoption

• Turn agreed needs into manageable increments with clear acceptance criteria and value objectives.
• Work closely with the Tech Lead and delivery team to clarify requirements and keep implementation moving.
• Address blockers and cross-application dependencies with responsible teams.
• Challenge unnecessary scope and overengineering while protecting essential quality requirements.
• Establish a clear value objective for each sprint and demonstrate what was delivered, validated, or enabled.
• Follow capabilities through to operational use, working with consuming teams on onboarding and adoption.
• Confirm whether delivered integrations achi