Transact Platform Product Owner

Req ID: 397609 NTT DATA strives to hire exceptional, innovative and passionate individuals who want to grow with us. If you want to be part of an inclusive, adaptable, and forward-thinking organization, apply now. We are currently seeking a Transact Platform Product Owner to join our team in Dublin, Dublin (IE-D), Ireland (IE). Summary We are seeking an experienced Transact Platform Product Owner to take end-to-end ownership of a critical Transact platform and its supporting technology stack. The successful candidate will bring 10+ years of experience working with and running Transact, with a strong understanding of how the constituent parts of the platform operate together, including JBoss, Linux, Oracle and Java, alongside operational monitoring and observability tooling such as Splunk and Wily. This is a role for a proactive, technically credible leader who understands what it takes to operate a complex, business-critical production platform. The Product Owner will set direction, lead the team, maintain strong operational and technology controls, and identify emerging risks before they become incidents. This individual will be expected to see around corners, challenge assumptions, and maintain a firm grip on platform health, technical debt, resilience, risk and delivery. A key accountability will be maintaining end-to-end oversight of the build and deployment of all Transact packages across the environment estate, ensuring changes are built, tested, promoted and deployed through a controlled, repeatable and increasingly automated process. Key Responsibilities 1. End-to-End Platform Ownership Own the Transact platform end to end, with accountability for its health, stability, resilience, supportability and ongoing evolution. Maintain a detailed understanding of the complete technology stack and the dependencies between Transact, JBoss, Linux, Oracle, Java and associated infrastructure. Understand the platform at sufficient depth to identify weaknesses, challenge technical proposals and make informed prioritisation decisions. Balance business change with the engineering investment required to keep the platform secure, resilient and supportable. Maintain a clear view of platform capacity, lifecycle, technical debt, vulnerabilities and emerging technology risks. 2. Operational & Control Excellence Establish and maintain strong operational and technology controls across the platform. Use Splunk, Wily and other monitoring and observability capabilities to understand platform behaviour, performance, trends and emerging issues. Ensure recurring incidents are investigated to root cause rather than repeatedly treated as isolated production problems. Drive effective problem management and preventative action. Ensure vulnerabilities, obsolescence, technical debt, capacity and resilience risks have clear ownership and remediation plans. Maintain strong disciplines around production readiness, change quality and operational acceptance. Continually assess where existing controls can be strengthened or automated. 3. Build, Package & Deployment Management Own the build, packaging and deployment process for all Transact changes across all environments, from development through test and production. Ensure application code, Java components, Transact changes and configuration packages follow a consistent, controlled and repeatable deployment approach. Drive automation of build and deployment activities wherever practical, reducing manual intervention, deployment risk and dependency on individual knowledge. Maintain clear traceability of every package, including what it contains, its source, version, approvals, target environment and deployment status. Ensure packages are promoted consistently through environments, with the appropriate testing and control gates before production. Maintain strong governance around release sequencing, dependencies, rollback and production readiness. Work closely with engineering, testing and service teams to continually improve the reliability and efficiency of the build and deployment process. Ensure build and deployment failures are understood, root causes addressed and recurring manual activities progressively engineered out. The objective is straightforward: at any point the team should be able to establish what is being deployed, what it contains, where it has already been deployed and whether it is ready to progress to the next environment. 4. Technical Leadership Lead and provide direction to the multidisciplinary team responsible for engineering and running the Transact platform. Bring together application, middleware, database, operating system and infrastructure perspectives, avoiding siloed ownership of platform issues. Be technically credible enough to challenge specialists while empowering engineers to make sound technical decisions. Create clarity around priorities and ensure the team understands both what needs to be delivered and why it matters. Establish high standards