Senior Product Owner for Backup & Disaster Recovery

What will you do

You will be responsible for shaping and leading the Backup & Disaster Recovery strategy, ensuring security, resi-lience, and business continuity. This customer-centric, business-aware role requires strong communication, do-main knowledge, and collaboration with engineers, developers, and stakeholders. Acting as the link between product management and security strategy, the Senior Product Owner ensures resilient, secure, and scalable solutions that protect assets, minimize downtime, and reduce operational and cyber risk.

Key responsibilities:

Strategy & Vision

• Define and drive the global BDR vision, strategy, and roadmap.
• Align product strategy with business continuity and IT service continuity frameworks.
• Anticipate industry trends and vendor roadmaps to keep solutions future-ready.

• Represent the customer voice and ensure solutions meet real business needs.
• Translate customer requirements into features, epics, and backlogs.
• Act as escalation contact for service quality and performance.

Product Management

• Maintain product catalogue, costs, SLAs, and lifecycle information.
• Create business cases and pitch them to leadership teams.
• Lead global roundtables and communities of practice.
• Coordinate with other product teams to resolve interdependencies.

Governance & Compliance

• Ensure solutions comply with security, governance, and regulatory requirements.
•  Work with Finance and Governance teams on budgets, asset management, and recharge models.
• Actively participate in major incident management when required.

 Innovation & Simplification

• Consolidate and streamline backup technologies to reduce complexity.
• Embed security into product design (encryption, immutability, air-gapped backups).
• Drive continuous improvement in resilience and disaster recovery testing.

This role reports to the Head of IT & OT Infrastructure and is key to shaping Heidelberg Materials’ global resilience posture.

We are looking for these competencies

• Extensive experience (5+ years) as a Product Owner or in a similar role such as Project Manager, Team Manager or Consultant.
• In-depth knowledge of industry leading backup products (e.g. Veeam/Rubrik) and Backup/Recovery principles, related tools and services, including understanding RPO (Recovery Point Objective) & RTO (Recovery Time Objective) and how to align them with business and security needs.
• Experience in implementation and improvement of DR and backup processes, including definition of DR and backup strategies, performing IT Risk Assessments and Business Impact Analyses, establishing comprehensive DR and backup plans and supporting documentation, and coordinating DR tests and ex-ercises
• Knowledge of encryption, immutability and air-gapped backups is desirable.
• Understanding of backup and disaster recovery architecture for OT / Operational Technology environ-ments in desirable.
• Experience in Agile methodologies, particularly Scrum, within an Agile/Scrum environment.
• Proficiency in creating and prioritizing product backlogs, roadmaps and user demands.
• Analytical and problem-solving mindset, with strong organizational abilities.
• Willingness to travel internationally as business requires.

What do we offer?

• Hybrid work environment
• 7,5-hour workday and 5 weeks of vacation
• Employee career track including regular growth talks
• Extensive trainings (technical, soft skills and language courses)
• Coaching & Mentoring Program
• 2 sick days & 2 days off for your volunteering activities
• Daily meal contribution
• Benefit card (sport, education, wellness, health, culture)
• Pension Insurance
• Mobile phone with company tariff
• Company reserved parking (car, motorbike, bike and lockers)
• Relax area and terrace

What’s going to happen next? 

Apply for this job position and our recruiter will reach out to you within a week. If there is an interest of both sides, we arrange either online or face2face meeting in the Digital Hub Brno office with the Country Team Lead. Based on the mutual satisfaction, we would welcome you on board.