LeanIX Product Owner – Enterprise Architecture Platform

About the role

As Product Owner for LeanIX in Global Digital Services, you will own BASF's strategic Enterprise Architecture platform end‑to‑end and drive its evolution into the trusted system of record for architecture, portfolio, and transformation decisions. You will define the product vision, roadmap and backlog while ensuring stable operations and promoting enterprise‑wide adoption.

Key responsibilities

• Own LeanIX end‑to‑end as BASF’s strategic Enterprise Architecture product by defining and evolving the product vision, roadmap and backlog aligned with EA and portfolio steering priorities.
• Govern and continuously enhance LeanIX with a standard‑first mindset, leveraging core capabilities while implementing custom integrations and automated data pipelines.
• Ensure stable operations, manage third‑party software lifecycles, and oversee compliance and risk‑mitigation plans.
• Establish and improve LeanIX data governance by defining data ownership and quality standards.
• Drive enterprise‑wide adoption by engaging stakeholders, building enablement formats such as trainings, workshops, communication assets, and a champion community.
• Embed LeanIX into architecture and portfolio management processes to increase transparency and enable data‑driven decisions.
• Define and implement KPIs, reports and quality‑monitoring mechanisms to track data quality, completeness and adoption.

Required profile

• Bachelor’s or Master’s degree in Computer Science, Business Informatics, IT or a comparable field.
• Several years of experience in product ownership or a related role; experience in architecture‑related environments is a plus.
• Good understanding of Enterprise Architecture, portfolio management and data governance.
• Hands‑on experience with LeanIX and ServiceNow is strongly preferred.
• Technical experience configuring SaaS platforms and implementing integrations, automated data pipelines and data flows, ideally using APIs, REST, GraphQL and SQL.
• Strong communication, facilitation and stakeholder‑management skills, with experience driving tool adoption and community building in decentralized organizations.
• Analytical and structured way of working, able to translate complex requirements into pragmatic solutions with high ownership and a customer‑value mindset.

Required skills

• LeanIX
• ServiceNow
• APIs
• REST
• GraphQL
• SQL

What we offer

• Secure work environment with health, safety and wellbeing as top priority.
• Flexible work schedule and home‑office options (hybrid model).
• Learning and development opportunities.
• 25 holiday days per year plus 5 additional readjustment days.
• Collaborative, trustful and innovative work environment.
• International team and global projects.
• Relocation assistance to Madrid.