Technical Product Specialist

Technical Product Specialist

The role

The Technical Product Specialist is a vital role within the Blenheim Chalcot portfolio and Foshpa. You will gain hands-on experience in a fast-paced and progressive environment, where you will support us in building our next generation of GenAI-enabled tech businesses.

Key Responsibilities:

Backlog Management:

• Own, prioritize, and refine the data ingestion backlog, ensuring that user stories, tasks, and technical requirements are consistently groomed and ready for development.
• Translate business and technical requirements into detailed user stories, with clearly defined acceptance criteria and relevant technical specifications (e.g., understanding of endpoints, data fields, authentication flows).

Technical Requirements & Documentation:

• Review and interpret external API documentation to determine how new data sources will integrate into our data model.
• Work closely with data leads and engineers to map new and updated fields into existing schemas

Cross-Functional Collaboration:

• Partner with engineering teams during sprint planning, daily stand-ups, and retrospective sessions to ensure alignment on priorities, clarify requirements, and unblock issues.
• Interface with stakeholders (including product management, data architecture, and analytics teams) to understand and refine requirements, communicate progress, and gather feedback.

Quality & Performance Focus:

• Define and uphold acceptance criteria that emphasize data accuracy, timeliness, and reliability, leveraging data validation rules and automated checks where possible.
• Monitor integration performance and data quality post-release, identifying and addressing issues or enhancements as needed.

Continuous Improvement:

• Suggest improvements to ingestion processes, frameworks, and tooling based on hands-on experience with API integrations and data workflow complexities.
• Identify opportunities to streamline the backlog management process, ensuring efficient communication and delivery.

About you

The ideal candidate will have a track-record in delivering results in a fast-moving business and hence be comfortable with change and uncertainty. Excellent stakeholder management experience is essential to being successful in this role.

Qualifications & Skills:

Education & Experience:

• Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Information Systems, or a related field preferred.
• 2+ years of experience as a Technical Product Owner, Technical Business Analyst, or a related role in a data-driven environment.

Technical Aptitude:

• Desired ability to understand and work with APIs, including interpreting documentation, query parameters, data formats, and authentication methods (OAuth, API keys).
• Familiarity with API frameworks and basic ETL/ELT concepts, as well as data modeling best practices.

Tools & Technologies:

• Experience with agile development tools (e.g., Jira, Confluence) to manage and refine backlogs, user stories, and sprints.
• Exposure to data integration technologies, cloud data warehousing solutions (e.g., AWS, GCP, Azure), and data orchestration tools a plus.

Soft Skills:

• Excellent written and verbal English & communication skills, able to clarify complex requirements into actionable stories for engineers.
• Strong organizational and time-management abilities, capable of juggling multiple priorities and maintaining a well-groomed backlog.
• A collaborative mindset, working effectively with cross-functional teams to achieve shared objectives.

About Blenheim Chalcot

Blenheim Chalcot is one of the leading venture builders in the world. We have been building exciting and disruptive businesses for over 26 years across sectors including FinTech, EdTech, GovTech, Media, Sport, Charity and more. These companies are all GenAI enabled and are some of the most innovative companies in the UK and increasingly around the world.

The BC team in India has been instrumental to the growth and success of Blenheim Chalcot. Established in 2014, Blenheim Chalcot India serves as a pivotal launchpad for those aiming to make a difference in the realm of innovation and entrepreneurship.

Blenheim Chalcot India is driven by a mission to empower visionaries to lead, innovate, and build disruptive solutions. We support our diverse portfolio of ventures and create impactful solutions that shape global trends. We provide a range of services to help new business get off the ground, including technology, growth (marketing and sales), talent, HR, finance, legal and tax, plus so much more!

One of our Marketing ventures, Fospha, is scaling fast and we’re looking to hire high energy, motivated and curious talent to support them on that journey!

About Fospha

Fospha is the marketing measurement platform for eCommerce brands. We have found product/market fit in the last two years and quickly become a market leader for measurement with numerous awards and rocket-ship growth to match. We are the only business of our type to be a certified partner of Meta, TikTok and Snap, and have worked with our customers - some of the best-known eCommerce brands in the world to drive massive growth and value.

Headquartered in the UK, Fospha is in its growth-stage and is now expanding globally. In India, we run under the umbrella of our investors: Blenheim Chalcot, World’s Leading Digital Venture Builder. The Fospha Products – Modelling & Attribution platform, Planning and Analytics tool are built by a team of 45+ brilliant engineers through its Mumbai office. We are now looking for exceptional candidates to join the team and be a part of the next phase of our journey.

What we can offer you

• Be part of the World’s Leading Digital Venture Builder
• Have the opportunity to be a part of and learn from the incredible diverse talent in BC
• Be exposed to the right mix of challenges, within a culture that promotes continuous learning and development and opportunity to work with Gen AI
• A fun and open, if a little cricket obsessed, atmosphere – we own the Rajasthan Royals IPL team!
• 24 days of annual leave & 10 public holiday days
• Private Medical for you and your immediate family & Life Insurance for yourself

Important

At Blenheim Chalcot, we strive to create an environment where differences are not only accepted but greatly valued; where everyone can make the most of their capabilities and potential. We promote meritocracy, competence and the sharing of ideas and opinions. We are driven by data and believe the diversity, agility, generosity, and curiosity of our people is what sets us apart as an organisation. Our strong commitment to a culture of inclusion is evident through our constant focus on recruiting, developing and advancing individuals based on their skills and talent.