Sr. Technical Product Owner

Travel Applications is seeking a Senior Technical Product Owner (TPO) within Global Technology Services (GTS) to support all Sabre interfaces including Guest Air Systems, Crew, Corporate, and Back Office Accounting. This role involves driving product strategy, owning the roadmap, gathering requirements, designing new features, functional testing, and supporting deployment. The Technical Product Owner will work closely with travel operations and Travel Application developer teams to ensure the successful implementation and support of travel software applications. This role will support seven business units and 400+ Sabre users globally. The ideal candidate will have extensive knowledge of Sabre GDS products and business processes, strong analytical and design skills, and the ability to collaborate effectively with technical teams.

Essential Functions:

• Requirements Gathering: Meet with business leaders and users to gather requirements for the development of travel application enhancements, upgrades, new releases and rollout of travel automation systems. Build strong relationships with stakeholders and ensure alignment with business goals. Is responsible for managing and prioritizing with the business the travel application development intake process through design, development, testing and deployment

• Functional Application Design: Responsible for incorporating business and Sabre technical requirements to developer level user stories using Agile methodology and documenting into Jira stories and managing Sprints.

• Testing and Validation: Define testing criteria, prepare and compile test cases, analyze results, validate systems and complete user documentation. Will perform end to end testing prior to delivery of software releases. Works with the business users on testing and training activities and documentation.  

• Collaboration with Technical and Business Teams:  Works closely with Air travel operation teams and developer teams to develop new features based on the strategic vision and business roadmaps. This includes implementation and testing of new Sabre technologies and APIs on behalf of the Air travel and Air business teams. Serves as the conduit between developers and business groups.  Will assist other TPO's with training and coaching as needed.

• First-tier support: Contribute to the first-tier support of GDS support and administration. Research and respond to support tickets and coordinate with Sabre support and