Technical Product Owner Engineering Apps

• Join our Airline Technology team and work within a diverse application product portfolio
• Challenge to innovate and drive change through technology for our customers and our staff
• Permanent role at our Head Office in Mascot 

At Qantas we represent Australia to the world. Our diverse country is known for its unique spirit mateship and a can-do attitude. Together were strong and resilient and we work hard to make sure were always at our best.

Technology is a big part of how we continue to pioneer our way forward. With eyes on the future our IT team harness technology on a global scale and tailor local solutions for each of our ports. Together well show you its possible to make an impact and to never underestimate what youre capable of achieving.

The Technical Product Owner  Engineering Apps is a leader with a customer-centric mentality responsible for business partnering with senior leaders and technology teams to drive strategy and implement digital solutions within areas of IT and the Engineering and Maintenance businesses across the Qantas Group.

The Technical Product Owner is accountable through their squads for the delivery of strategies features enhancements projects and initiatives. They are also responsible for developing a team culture of continuous improvement and innovation across both direct and indirect reporting lines.

You will guide and mentor cross-functional squads and vendors to ensure features are delivered to commitments and the products meet their service levels and are secure and resilient by design. The role works closely with various business owners to provide a single point of accountability across Plan Build and Run IT functions for designated products and their underlying technology sub-systems.

What you will do:

• Partner with business stakeholders to plan build and deliver digital products through a combination internal development squads and external software vendors. To do this successfully you will need to be able to balance the need to understand customer needs and jobs to be done across Engineering and Cabin Crew staff with long established products and processes to deliver best in class solutions.
• Vendor management including financial contractual and service obligations (e.g. Service Level Management).
• Product Planning and facilitate planning prioritisation of roadmaps and delivery sequence to meet overall product roadmap.
• Provide insights to inform economic decision-making by facilitating feature and capability estimation by teams.
• Manage quality of service and operational stability including IT risk and compliance management delivering service improvements and providing input to service management strategies.

What you will bring:

• 5 years experience in large enterprises and 3 years in agile development environments (or equivalent work experience) preferably with mobile app experience.
• Experience of working with technical software integrations such as APIs
• Solid experience in operational service management preferably with highly critical systems.
• Airline technology experience preferably within Maintenance Information Systems or Technical Publications.
• Proven ability to apply analytical and critical thinking skills to solve or lead the solving of strategic problems of high complexity on a large scale
• Expert stakeholder management skills across both business and technical functions
• Experience in coaching and modelling Agile mind-set and ways of working
• Experience designing and facilitating fit for purpose workshops that deliver defined outcomes
• Strong verbal and written communications skills
• Able to work cross-functionally and align business unit processes to enterprise business processes
• Strong negotiation and conflict skills strong commercial and business acumen

Why Qantas  

If youre successful in your application youll join a team where creativity and passion are encouraged. Our people come together to allow us to dream big and deliver successfully. 

There are many different opportunities across our team which means youll be able to grow both personally and professionally at Qantas. Your development is a priority for us so that you can maintain the high standards our customers have come to expect and can continue to develop over time. Youll be supported from day 1 with on the job training and coaching as well as our formal training opportunities. While you may start in this role weve got a great track record of supporting our people to take their career in so many different directions the destinations are endless.  

The Qantas employee benefits program offers amazing benefits that extend well beyond travel.  

• We love to travel: Enjoy discounted air travel within Australia and across the globe both for you and your family and friends as well as exclusive deals on accommodation and holidays.  

• We have flexible leave options: Make use of leave and flexible working opportunities including 18 weeks paid parental leave and additional purchased leave options.

• Well give you access to thousands of rewards: Through our partnerships we can offer you discounts across shopping food and wine insurance health and wellbeing leisure and entertainment. You can also take advantage of our salary packaging for everything from motor vehicles to electronic devices.  

• Well support your wellbeing: Whether its learning to better support your own and others mental health our interactive wellbeing app or your very own tailored nutrition plan.  

Applications Closes 13th April 2026

Remote Work :

No

Employment Type :

Full-time