Title:  Technical Product Owner

Sanctuary is one of the UK’s leading providers of housing, care and community services. With around 13,000 employees, we maintain a culture where diversity is valued and talent is nurtured and rewarded.

Technical Product Owner

Worcester based with a balance of home and office working

£66,895 - £70,410 per year

35 hours per week

We have an opportunity for a Technical Product Owner to join our team in Worcester. This role sits within Technology Delivery and works closely with Product Owners, Project Managers and Technical Architects to ensure technology products, particularly SAP and Salesforce align to enterprise architecture standards, technical strategy and governance, while supporting collaboration and consistency across product streams.

On a typical day, the role works with product teams and architects to apply standards, unblock delivery, review upcoming changes and releases, communicate technical impacts, and participate in governance forums to ensure sustainable, well‑aligned delivery.

The role of Technical Product Owner will include:

• Applying expert technical judgment to ensure adherence to architecture standards and represent architecture principles within product teams, including those delivering SAP and Salesforce solutions
• Communicating the technical strategy regularly to ensure team alignment across all technology stacks, including SAP and Salesforce and ensure that technology change remains aligned, sustainable and scalable
• Building and developing good working relationships with internal and external stakeholders ensuring any issues are identified and dealt with appropriately
• Supporting the Technical Architects to ensure they are informed and connected to each other
• Managing technical dependencies and the architectural integrity of products, including integrations with SAP and Salesforce platforms
• Understanding the release plan to flag potential conflict. Arbitrate conflicting technical requirements or priorities from stakeholders, balancing enterprise architecture needs

Skills and experiences:

• Able to demonstrate possession of a degree, management qualification or relevant professional qualification
• Enterprise Architecture qualifications (e.g., TOGAF, Zachman)
• Certifications in SAP and Salesforce architecture and integration patterns
• ITIL, AGILE Certification
• Significant experience of Architecture standards management and Governance
• Significant experience in systems and enterprise architecture, including integration patterns for SAP and Salesforce

Why work for us?

We provide homes and care for more than 250,000 people in England and Scotland. Our customers are at the heart of all we do. With around 14,000 colleagues, we foster a diverse and inclusive culture, and nurture and reward talent.

Our Benefits   

As part of our commitment to making Sanctuary a great place to work, where your wellbeing is of genuine importance, we have developed an attractive employment package. The package recognises your contribution, supports your physical, mental and financial health and gives you the flexibility to tailor your employee benefits by offering:

• 25 days annual leave (rising to a maximum of 30 days) plus public holidays
• A pension scheme with matching employer contributions from Sanctuary up to set limits
• Life Assurance
• Employee Volunteering scheme
• Employee Advice Service including counselling
• Cycle to Work scheme
• Voluntary health plans  
• Employee discounts
• Wellbeing support and tools
• Employee recognition scheme
• Employee platform to access your reward and wellbeing package online, find exclusive discounts, wellbeing resources and recognition tools
• Staff Networks, with a shared interest in inclusion, and who provide invaluable support to colleagues
• Effective 1st April role salary is £56,110 with an additional policy allowance of £10,784 per annum (rising to £59,059 with an additional policy allowance of £11,351 per annum after 12 months, subject to satisfactory performance)

View the job profile (if the link is unavailable please visit the Sanctuary careers website)   

Closing Date: 28 April 2026

If you're unsure about any details, have questions about the role or want to discuss a need for adjustments, our fantastic talent team will be happy to help you -corporate.recruitment@sanctuary.co.uk

We reserve the right depending on application numbers to close or extend the closing dates for positions; we would therefore recommend an early application.

View more detail about what it’s like to work for our organisation, and what we offer on our Sanctuary careers pages at -  www.sanctuary.co.uk/join-our-team

Inclusion is one of our core values. Our goal is to be a diverse, inclusive organisation where our people thrive and meet our customers’ needs with fairness and empathy. We know having a range of ideas and opinions makes a difference.  We encourage and welcome applications from people from diverse backgrounds to support this mission.  We will make adjustments throughout your application process, in line with Sanctuary’s commitment to our Disability Confident employer status.

Building Equality and Diversity

Sanctuary Group encourages and welcomes applications from people from diverse backgrounds to support our commitment to offering an inclusive environment for our employees and customers. 
We work closely with the Home Office in order to prevent unlawful working.
Sanctuary Group is a trading name of Sanctuary Housing Association, an exempt charity.