GitHub Product Owner

GitHub Product Owner

Location: Chicago, IL Duration: 6-12 Months

Responsibilities:

• Design and own the end-to-end GitHub platform, encompassing organization structure, repository standards, and integration architecture
• Establish and maintain clear, enforceable standards for repository layout, configuration, and developer ways of working
• Design and govern the GitHub security and control model, including pipeline-based security, secrets protection, and code scanning
• Define remediation patterns and expectations, ensuring systemic fixes for security and control issues
• Design and evolve reusable workflows, automation patterns, and GitHub Copilot Agent strategies as shared platform capabilities
• Continuously evolve platform standards, guardrails, and integrations in response to changing GitHub capabilities and security
• Act with integrity, professionalism, and personal responsibility to uphold KPMG's respectful and courteous work environment

Qualifications:

• Minimum ten years of recent, demonstrated experience owning or architecting GitHub Enterprise platforms at an organizational scale
• Bachelor's degree from an accredited college or university in information technology or a related field
• Demonstrated experience owning or architecting GitHub Enterprise platforms at an organizational scale
• Strong background in DevSecOps and secure SDLC design, including pipeline-based security controls; experience defining developer-centric standards and workflows that scale across teams
• Proven ability to design and govern security controls enforced by platform patterns; comfort as a single accountable owner in a federated enterprise environment
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills, capable of producing standards, guidance, and executive-level material