Product Owner

Job Title :Product Owner

Location: Pune

About Barclays

Barclays is a British universal bank. We are diversified by business, by different types of customers and clients, and by geography. Our businesses include consumer banking and payments operations around the world, as well as a top-tier, full service, global corporate and investment bank, all of which are supported by our service company which provides technology, operations and functional services across the Group.

Risk and Control Objective

Ensure that all activities and duties are carried out in full compliance with regulatory requirements, Enterprise Wide Risk Management Framework and internal Barclays Policies and Policy Standards.

Working Flexibly

We’re committed to providing a supportive and inclusive culture and environment for you to work in. This environment recognises and supports ways to balance your personal needs, alongside the professional needs of our business. Providing the opportunity for all our employees, globally to work flexibly empowers each of us to work in a way that suits our lives as well as enabling us to better service our customers’ and clients’ needs. Whether you have family commitments or you’re a carer, or whether you need study time or wish to pursue personal interests, our approach to working flexibly is designed to help you balance your life.

Hybrid Working
BUK & BX - All locations

Please discuss the detail of the working pattern options for the role with the hiring manager.

Introduction:
The Product Owner works closely with the Corporate Banking engineering & Architecture teams to deliver the expected capabilities, business outcomes and associated benefits to support specific business strategies within the Corporate Data Services team. They work with the various stakeholders to create, drive, evolve and communicate the overall product vision, roadmap and backlog.

What will you be doing?
- Manage Operational Data Store or other data products within CDS from product ownership perspective
- Manage multiple deliveries at a project and programme level simultaneously
- Commercials and resourcing
- Ensure stakeholders are aligned
- Delivery of all agreed change to time, quality and cost parameters
- Managing the delivery of change in the integrated technology environment
- Understanding the risk profile of change and ensuring that integrated testing is commensurate with that risk profile.
- Overall ownership of project delivery from roadmap and backlog perspective
- Establishing clear roles and responsibilities of the team
- Comply with risk management controls to ensure compliance and meet operational SLAs
- To understand the overall purpose of the projects and contribute to requirements & data analysis, and provide solutions
- Provide approval and oversight to requirement documents as entry criteria to detailed design and development

Product Management and compliance to processes
- Lead Roadmap planning, Backlog creation and Prioritization with Product Owners and Stakeholders across the Corporate Landscape
- Work closely with the Delivery Leads on the Resource management across Product PODs.
- Explore metrics across the product, collaborate with Tech Lead and Delivery Lead to derive team performance.
- Provide product management information to the Product owner.
- Mentor junior team members
- Raise and manage risks and issues in a timely manner in adherence to relevant standards
- Be able to provide multiple solutions and have the ability to choose the best course of action weighing up various factors that should be taken into consideration

What we’re looking for:

- Proven technical product management skills, demonstrating an ability to deliver to time, cost and quality parameters with pro-active management of risks, assumptions, issues and dependencies (RAID).
- Experienced 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
- Sound stakeholder management skills.
- Strong leadership and communication skills
- Experience communicating technical aspects to non-technical stakeholders

Skills that will help you in the role:

- An understanding of contemporary distributed software development, including:

- Technical Product Owner experience
- Ab Initio - Real time data integration
- Strong design skills & data modelling
- Java, Microservices / API-oriented architectures
- New age databases such as MongoDB, Postgres, RDS etc
- Cloud & AWS
- Data Engineering
- Banking domain knowledge or experience
- Excellent written and oral communication skills, including the ability to write and present a range of written materials (presentations, briefings, reports) and to communicate effectively with stakeholders at all levels in various global locations.
- Experience working in an Agile environment at an Expert/C