Technical Product Owner

Technical Product Owner — Government Integration Project
12-month fixed term contract | South Melbourne | Hybrid working
Because this position supports a federal government project, applicants must be Australian citizens and willing and eligible to undergo the required government security-clearance process.
About My Occ Health RecordMy Occ Health Record (MOHR) is an Australian-owned health-tech company transforming how high-risk industries manage workforce health.
Its cloud-based occupational health platform connects health information across the entire employee lifecycle—from pre-employment assessments and health surveillance to injury management, occupational hygiene and employee wellbeing.
The platform supports more than 440,000 employee health records, 3.9 million live data points and over 1,000 clinical users.
By centralising sensitive health data, automating compliance and providing real-time insights, MOHR helps organisations protect their people, reduce risk and make better workforce-health decisions.
The opportunityMOHR is looking for a technically fluent Product Owner to support a complex federal government integration project.
You’ll act as the critical link between government stakeholders, internal Product teams and Engineering, maintaining continuity across separate business and technical conversations and ensuring complex requirements aren’t lost in translation.
This isn’t a high-level, roadmap-only Product Manager position. It’s a hands-on delivery role requiring strong attention to detail, technical curiosity and end-to-end ownership.
You’ll take complicated and sometimes changing requirements, understand how they affect multiple connected systems, and turn them into clear, testable work that Engineering can confidently implement.
Why this role is impactfulMOHR is part of a broader government solution involving six connected systems. If requirements, data flows or integrations aren’t understood correctly, the entire user journey can be affected.
You’ll play a central role in ensuring:Business and technical stakeholders remain alignedDecisions are documented and carried between different working groupsAPIs and integrations meet the intended requirementsEngineering receives clear, delivery-ready workEdge cases and dependencies are identified before developmentThe delivered solution works correctly through QA, UAT and release
The work involves sensitive occupational-health data, complex stakeholder relationships and a project with genuine national significance.
What you’ll be doingAct as the bridge between government stakeholders, internal Product teams and EngineeringParticipate in business, technical and integration workshopsUnderstand and document APIs, system interactions and end-to-end data flowsTranslate complex requirements into clear epics, user stories and acceptance criteriaIdentify gaps, assumptions, dependencies, edge cases and failure scenariosMaintain traceability between stakeholder requirements, technical decisions and delivered functionalityManage changing or conflicting requirements and assess their wider impactPrepare and refine the backlog so work is ready before entering developmentSupport engineers throughout delivery by providing timely clarification and decisionsWork closely with QA to define test scenarios and validate acceptance criteriaParticipate in integration testing, UAT and release validationInvestigate whether reported issues are defects, missed requirements, scope changes or misunderstandingsCommunicate technical concepts clearly to non-technical stakeholdersEnsure decisions, actions and requirements remain accurate across a long-running government program
What we’re looking forYou’ll be an experienced Product Owner, Technical Business Analyst or systems professional who is comfortable operating between business and technology.
You’ll ideally bring:Experience owning complex software requirements through the full delivery lifecycleStrong technical understanding of APIs, integrations and data flowsThe ability to follow and contribute meaningfully to technical conversationsExperience translating ambiguity into implementable, testable requirementsStrong user-story and acceptance-criteria capabilityExcellent stakeholder management across technical and non-technical audiencesConfidence identifying contradictions and challenging unclear requirementsExperience maintaining decision logs, traceability and documentationStrong attention to detail and a structured approach to problem-solvingExperience supporting Engineering, QA and stakeholders through testing and releaseThe autonomy and judgement to keep delivery moving without constant directionThe patience and adaptability required for a government program where requirements and timelines may change
You don’t need to be a software engineer, but you must be able to understand how systems communicate, ask credible technical questions and explain complex integrations clearly.
Nice to havePrevious federal or state government project experienceExisting Baseline security clearanceA background in software engineering, systems analysis or technical business analysisExperience using Postman or similar API-testing toolsFamiliarity with Swagger, OpenAPI specifications, JSON payloads and HTTP response codesSQL or data-investigation capabilityExperience with integration, system or user-acceptance testingHealthcare, health-tech or sensitive-data experienceExperience working across large, multi-system programsKnowledge of government governance, assurance and documentation requirements
Why join MOHR?This is an opportunity to:Work on a technically complex federal government projectContribute to technology designed to improve workplace health and safetyWork across Product, Engineering, QA and customer stakeholdersGain significant exposure to APIs, integrations and sensitive-data workflowsHave genuine ownership across requirements, testing and delivered outcomesJoin a growing Australian product company where your work will be visibleHelp shape how MOHR approaches technical product ownership as it continues to scaleWork within a collaborative environment where people are trusted to contribute beyond narrow job boundaries
If you’re a technically curious Product Owner who enjoys untangling complexity, connecting stakeholders and carrying requirements through to a working outcome, we’d love to hear from you.
Apply directly or contact Georgia Hart for a confidential conversation.