Join us as a Technical Product Owner. At Barclays, we don’t just embrace change – we drive it. You will be driving product direction and roadmap for core corporate bank’s online channels. You will be assessing and collecting customer needs to develop the product goal, create product backlogs and clearly communicate backlogs, priorities back to stakeholders. You will be Collaborating with other product owners, tech and business teams through the product lifecycle to enact the vision defined in the roadmap and to maximize business value. 

To be successful as a Technical Product Owner, you should have experience with:

Being passionate about the user experience, delivering a useful & usable digital product/service that provides a customer experience in alignment with CX principles. Understands tech, data models, APIs, platform, and system architecture. Acts as the digital feature owner, inspires the team from ideate to execution, owns requirements and scope, leads the team in the right direction, defines launch parameters, and prioritizes features.Encourage risk taking and learning from failures. This will help build a transparent culture, value peer feedback, understand details and challenge assumptions. Delivery of major change projects or work streams within a major business change program, operating in accordance with the mandated methodology and tools but creating solutions flexibly through agile and POD frameworks.Ensuring the projects for which you are accountable for are aligned to, and deliver against, the program objectives and business strategy. Ensuring the delivery of new products, services and business capability from the projects is to appropriate levels of quality, on time and within budget, in accordance with the Project Plan.Communication with program and project stakeholders, up to MD level, managing third party contributions to the projects if applicable. Managing dependencies and interfaces between projects and program work streams and the management of risks and issues affecting the work stream/portfolio of projects’ delivery.Quality Assurance and overall integrity of the projects. Identifying and addressing gaps in the portfolio of projects by initiating additional activities if required.

Some other highly valued skills may include:

Experience in articulating business outcomes, features and elaborate user stories that support teams in delivery of functional requirements. This includes understanding the value of non-functional requirements and their importance in maintaining service to customers.Able to analyse large volumes of data to identify specific trends and insights. You can understand this information and effectively interpret and communicate with key stakeholders, also acting upon these insights in planning activity.Encourages team by recognizing individual contributions and openly acknowledging accomplishments whilst creating opportunities for others to excel. Experienced in working within an agile framework.

You may be assessed on the key critical skills relevant for success in role, such as risk and controls, change and transformation, business acumen strategic thinking and digital and technology, as well as job-specific technical skills.

This role is based in our Pune office.

Purpose of the role

To collaborate with product owners and other technical teams involved in the product development process and utilise their knowledge of the bank’s technologies to enact the vision defined in the product roadmap. 

Accountabilities

Provision of subject matter expertise to support the collaboration between the product owner and the technical side of product development.Support the development and implementation of the product strategy and vision defined in the product roadmap and communicate them with the relevant stakeholders and the development team.Collaboration with internal stakeholders to gather and prioritise product requirements and features based on business value and feasibility that are well defined, measurable and secure.Development and implementation of assessments to ensure continuous testing and improvement of product quality and performance.Monitoring of product performance to identify opportunities for optimisation that meets the banks performance standards.Stay abreast of the latest industry technology trends and technologies, to evaluate and adopt new approaches to improve product development and delivery.

Vice President Expectations

Advise key stakeholders, including functional leadership teams and senior management on functional and cross functional areas of impact and alignment.Manage and mitigate risks through assessment, in support of the control and governance agenda.Demonstrate leadership and accountability for managing risk and strengthening controls in relation to the work your team does.Demonstrate comprehensive understanding of the organisation functions to contribute to achieving the goals of the business.Collaborate with other areas of work, for business aligned support areas to keep up to speed with business activity and the business strategies.Create solutions based on sophisticated analytical thought comparing and selecting complex alternatives. In-depth analysis with interpretative thinking will be required to define problems and develop innovative solutions.Adopt and include the outcomes of extensive research in problem solving processes.Seek out, build and maintain trusting relationships and partnerships with internal and external stakeholders in order to accomplish key business objectives, using influencing and negotiating skills to achieve outcomes.

All colleagues will be expected to demonstrate the Barclays Values of Respect, Integrity, Service, Excellence and Stewardship – our moral compass, helping us do what we believe is right. They will also be expected to demonstrate the Barclays Mindset – to Empower, Challenge and Drive – the operating manual for how we behave.