We want to make Houseful more welcoming, fair, and representative. If your background is underrepresented in the technology or property sectors, we actively encourage your application.
Hybrid - Minimum 2 days on site in London, Tower Bridge HQ
At Houseful, we’re creating the connections that power better property decisions
Do the best work of your life!
Houseful is home to trusted brands Zoopla, Alto, Hometrack, Calcasa, Mojo and Prime location. Together we’re creating the connections that power better property decisions, by unlocking the combined strength of software, data and insight.
We make moves with head and heart to achieve our big ambitions and to drive progress in the property market. There’s never been a better time to join us.
Hometrack
Hometrack is redefining the mortgage journey for lenders, brokers, and consumers by delivering market-leading valuation and property data services to the financial, property, and technology industries. Our key commercial and go-to-market segment is in financial services, primarily mortgage lenders, including nine of the top 10 mortgage providers.
The role
Join us in Hometrack as a Technical Product Owner where you'll spearhead the technical reliability, stability and excellence of our flagship product Property Risk Hub. In this role, you’ll collaborate with product managers and other technical teams involved in the product development process and utilise their knowledge of the Hometrack’s technologies and our lender customer needs to deliver enterprise grade quality as defined in the roadmap.
To be successful as a Technical Product Owner, you will need the following:
- 4+ years of experience in managing product roadmaps, backlogs, and prioritising features based on business needs in a technical environment , within software. Ability to communicate technical requirements effectively with both technical and non-technical stakeholders.
- Strong analytical and critical thinking abilities to make data-driven decisions and propose effective solutions to solve complex technical issues.
- Proven experience working in Agile environments, including hands-on experience with Scrum or Kanban methodologies.
- Experience creating API documentation/specifications, with a solid understanding of API design principles, security, and orchestration.
- Working knowledge of software applications, system architecture, data mapping, databases, backend technologies (e.g. .Net, C#).
Some other highly valued skills may include:
- Experience with cloud platforms predominantly Azure, or AWS to support cloud-based product infrastructure.
- Knowledge of CI/CD pipelines, automation, and an understanding of how DevOps processes influence product development.
- Experience in the banking domain.
Responsibilities
- Provision of subject matter expertise to support the collaboration between the product manager and the technical side of product development.
- Take ownership for post incident and penetration testing actions, ensuring resolutions are applied in a reasonable timeframe to manage future risk and improve reliability, stability and security of the platform.
- Consult on complex issues; providing analysis and advice to senior management to support the resolution of escalated issues. You’ll require excellent communication skills and stakeholder management experience.
- Support the development and implementation of technical product initiatives to upgrade, modernise and improve reliability of the platform, as well as increase deployment frequency and flexibility.
- Build strong relationships with internal stakeholders to gather and prioritise product requirements and features based on business value and feasibility that are well defined, measurable and secure.
- Development and implementation of assessments to ensure continuous testing and improvement of product quality, performance and security.
- Monitoring of product performance to identify opportunities for optimisation that meets our customer’s performance standards.
You may be assessed on the key critical skills relevant for success in a role, such as risk and controls, change and transformation, business acumen, strategic thinking and digital and technology, as well as job-specific technical skills.
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What We Do
We’ve recently renamed our wider business to ‘Houseful’, which is why the name might be new to you. By doing so, we can now showcase the breadth of our brands and connected capabilities that are driving progress in the property industry.
Houseful is the leader in residential property software, data and insight - owning and operating a family of trusted and established brands, including Zoopla, Hometrack, Prime Location, Mojo, Alto and Calcasa.
It also means that when you work for one of our brands, you’re part of something much bigger. At Houseful, we are powering better property decisions for everyone - and our door is always open to new applicants, regardless of race, colour, national origin, religion, sexual orientation, gender, gender identity, age, physical disability, or length of time spent unemployed.
