Pontoon Solutions
Product Owner
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Product Owner (Contract)
Duration: 6 Months (Possibility for extension)
Location: Bristol Harbourside, Leeds or Edinburgh (2 days per week on site)
Rate: A highly competitive Umbrella Day Rate or Salary is available for suitable candidates
Role Profile
The Team Product Owner is responsible for owning and prioritising a product backlog for a specific process, journey, feature, or technology component, ensuring the team delivers the highest-value outcomes for customers, colleagues, and the business. The role acts as the bridge between Operations, stakeholders, and delivery teams, translating strategic objectives into deliverable outcomes. The PO works alongside the Lab Product Owner, Engineering Lead, Integrator, Customer Journey Managers, and developers/testers to deliver modernised customer and colleague journeys on Pega Cloud.
Key Responsibilities:
- Define and communicate a clear product vision.
- Translate business strategy into prioritised outcomes, epics, features, and stories.
- Own and manage the team backlog.
- Ensure delivery aligns with MVP principles and maximises value.
- Measure and report benefits realisation and product performance.
- Prioritise, refine, and manage the team's backlog.
- Lead discovery, refinement, and planning activities.
- Ensure work is well-defined, sized, and ready for delivery.
- Maintain alignment between Lab priorities and Feature Team priorities.
- Work closely with Heads of Function, Business Product Owners, SMEs, and Operations teams.
- Facilitate decision-making and obtain relevant sign-offs.
- Manage competing priorities and resolve ambiguity.
- Build strong relationships across Operational and Engineering teams.
- Lead initiatives through the end-to-end lifecycle.
- Deliver change safely in line with Platform 3.0 and PCF standards.
- Own governance, reporting, risk, and issue management.
- Work with operations to ensure business readiness, communications, training, and operational handover activities are completed.
- Work with Integrators and Engineering Leads to manage cross-team dependencies.
- Support release planning and implementation planning.
- Ensure successful deployment and adoption.
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Skills & Experience:
- Strong Product Owner experience in Agile environments.
- Experience managing product backlogs and prioritisation.
- Articulate benefits and business value to support prioritisation.
- Strong stakeholder management and influencing skills.
- Ability to translate strategy into delivery outcomes.
- Experience with Jira and Jira Align.
- Experience working with cross-functional Agile teams.
- Knowledge of Insurance, Pensions, and Investments products and customer journeys.
- Experience with Pega technology, including App Studio.
- Experience in process modernisation, workflow, or automation delivery.
- Understanding of Cloud migration and operational transformation programmes.
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Candidates will need to show evidence of the above in their CV in order to be considered.
If you feel you have the skills and experience and want to hear more about this role ‘apply now’ to declare your interest in this opportunity with our client. Your application will be observed by our dedicated team.
We will respond to all successful applicants ASAP however, please be advised that we will always look to contact you further from this time should we need further applicants or if other opportunities arise relevant to your skillset.
About Pontoon
Pontoon is an employment consultancy. We put expertise, energy, and enthusiasm into improving everyone’s chance of being part of the workplace. We respect and appreciate people of all ethnicities, generations, religious beliefs, sexual orientations, gender identities, and more. We do this by showcasing their talents, skills, and unique experience in an inclusive environment that helps them thrive.
As part of our standard hiring process to manage risk, please note background screening checks will be conducted on all hires before commencing employment.
We use generative AI tools to support our candidate screening process. This helps us ensure a fair, consistent, and efficient experience for all applicants. Rest assured, all final decisions are made by our hiring team, and your application will be reviewed with care and attention.
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