Indianapolis, IN

Zane M. Owen

Technical Product Owner

6+ years of Agile delivery alongside engineering teams on platform, API, backend, and data work. I turn technical requirements into clear, testable user stories for low- or no-UI work across global teams.

Experience

  1. Jan 2026 — Present

    Technical Product Owner, Platform Engineering

    Roche (Contract) · Indianapolis, IN

    • Own the backlog for a new Platform Engineering team building services for internal dev teams.
    • Help stand up the Indianapolis team as platform work moves over from Santa Clara.
    • Write user stories and acceptance criteria for API, backend, and AWS work with little or no UI.
    • Partner with architects on refactoring, API redesign, and tech debt across time zones.
  2. May 2024 — Jul 2025

    Product Owner, Project Manager

    Onebridge · Indianapolis, IN

    • Owned the backlog for a multi-million-dollar data and platform modernization initiative.
    • Turned architectural requirements into user stories for platform, data, and governance work.
    • Balanced tech debt and refactoring with delivery across onshore and offshore teams.
  3. Aug 2022 — Dec 2023

    Senior Technology Solution Delivery Consultant

    EY · Chicago, IL

    • Supported delivery of large-scale enterprise integration initiatives in a global, matrixed environment.
    • Implemented Jira-based governance and reporting, improving visibility into risks and dependencies.
  4. Sep 2021 — Aug 2022

    Scrum Master

    Reveal Data · Chicago, IL

    • Supported a SAFe Release Train of 7 Agile teams, many focused on backend and platform capabilities.
    • Partnered with Product Owners to align technical features with team backlogs and capacity.
    • Facilitated PI Planning, backlog refinement, and cross-team dependency management.
  5. Aug 2020 — Sep 2021

    Business Technical Analyst, Junior Agile Coach

    Capgemini · Chicago, IL

    • Wrote and refined user stories and acceptance criteria for non-UI, backend-focused initiatives.
    • Coached teams toward Agile maturity through training, retrospectives, and removing blockers.

Skills

Product & Delivery

  • Backlog prioritization
  • User stories & acceptance criteria
  • Agile / Scrum
  • SAFe
  • Jira

Technical

  • APIs & backend services
  • AWS
  • Internal platform services
  • Data modernization
  • Tech debt

Certifications

  • SAFe® Release Train Engineer
  • SAFe® Scrum Master
  • SAFe® Practitioner

Education

Indiana University, School of Informatics
B.S. in Informatics, Minor in Marketing
Bloomington, IN · 2020

Let's talk

Open to Technical Product Owner and platform product roles.