Product Owner

Join us as a Product Owner at Barclays where you'll spearhead the evolution of our digital landscape, driving innovation and excellence. You'll harness cutting-edge technology to revolutionise our digital offerings, ensuring unapparelled customer experiences.

You may be assessed on the key critical skills relevant for success in role, such as:

- Business or Technical graduate with at least 3 years of engineering and/or product experience. Has the technical knowledge to assess build options and make recommendations.
- Experience of making strategic changes to the journey so that products and services from Barclays is more accessible for customers with a simpler end to end journey. The initiatives will improve journeys across all channels with a heightened focus in digital.
- Experience of Product Owner/Management skills.
- Experience leading and delivering a strategic technical change programme.
articulate technology requirements for a feature/API. Ask the right technical questions; can identify risks in technology design choices.
- Experience of Problem-Solving. Being able to tackle complex tasks and find appropriate solutions.
- Have prior Market Knowledge: market trends and competitive landscape to make informed decisions within hiring department is a plus.
- Business Acumen and Risk Management: Understanding of the broader business strategies to align transformation decisions with Barclays objectives and risk appetite. A consistently excellent way of working against the 4 pillars.
- Knowledge of the Enterprise Risk Management Framework, ensuring risk and control are at the heart of all our change delivery.

Additional relevant skills:

- Provides oversite on effort estimation, funding, effort burn rate to help project managers in execution of projects.
- Works closely with project managers for timely delivery of features mostly part of large flagship programmes. This role is based in Pune.

**Purpose of the role**

To design, develop, and implement solutions to complex business problems, collaborating with stakeholders to understand their needs and requirements, and design and implement solutions that meet those needs and create solutions that balance technology risks against business delivery, driving consistency.

**Accountabilities**
- Design and development of solutions as products that can evolve, meeting business requirements that align with modern software engineering practices and automated delivery tooling. This includes identification and implementation of the technologies and platforms.
- Best practice designs incorporating security principles (such as defence in depth and reduction of blast radius) that meet the Bank’s resiliency expectations.
- Solutions that appropriately balance risks and controls to deliver the agreed business and technology value.
- Adoption of standardised solutions where they fit. If no standard solutions fit, feed into their ongoing evolution where appropriate.
- Fault finding and performance issues support to operational support teams, leveraging available tooling.
- Solution design impact assessment in terms of risk, capacity and cost impact, inc. estimation of project change and ongoing run costs.
- Development of the requisite architecture inputs required to comply with the banks governance processes, including design artefacts required for architecture, privacy, security and records management governance processes.

**Assistant Vice President Expectations**
- Consult on complex issues; providing advice to People Leaders to support the resolution of escalated issues.
- Identify ways to mitigate risk and developing new policies/procedures in support of the control and governance agenda.
- Take ownership for managing risk and strengthening controls in relation to the work done.
- Perform work that is closely related to that of other areas, which requires understanding of how areas coordinate and contribute to the achievement of the objectives of the organisation sub-function.
- Collaborate with other areas of work, for business aligned support areas to keep up to speed with business activity and the business strategy.
- Engage in complex analysis of data from multiple sources of information, internal and external sources such as procedures and practises (in other areas, teams, companies, etc).to solve problems creatively and effectively.
- Communicate complex information. 'Complex' information could include sensitive information or information that is difficult to communicate because of its content or its audience.
- Influence or convince stakeholders 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.