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Technical Product Owner – Domain API at Barclays
We are thrilled to introduce a pivotal opportunity to join us at Barclays as a Technical Product Owner, where you will contribute to developing resilient, scalable, and secure technology that powers our worldclass financial services.
About the Role
As a Technical Product Owner, your role will be critical in shaping and delivering key platform capabilities across our issuing technology landscape. You will collaborate with engineering teams, senior stakeholders, and strategic suppliers to drive both delivery excellence and innovation, fostering transformation across the organisation.
Purpose of the Role
The key objective of this role is to partner with product owners and technical teams to align their expertise with Barclays' broader technology strategy, enabling effective execution of the product roadmap.
Core Accountabilities
- Provide subject matter expertise to bridge collaboration between the product owner and technical development teams.
- Develop and implement product strategies, communicating them clearly to stakeholders and the development team.
- Prioritise and define product requirements through collaboration with stakeholders, ensuring they are valuable, feasible, measurable, and secure.
- Establish and maintain testing and quality improvement assessments to uphold high performance standards.
- Monitor product performance to identify opportunities for optimisation, aligning with Barclays' performance benchmarks.
- Stay updated on emerging industry trends, evaluating and adopting new technologies to enhance product development and delivery.
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If leading a team:
- Set or contribute to strategy, execute requirements, and recommend changes.
- Allocate resources, budgets, and policies while adhering to structured plans.
- Develop and maintain policies/processes, driving continuous improvements and escalating breaches.
- Define job responsibilities and plan for organisational needs, ensuring colleagues thrive and deliver excellence.
- Expected leadership behaviours include: Listen and be authentic, Energise and inspire, Align across the enterprise, Develop others.
If an individual contributor:
- Serve as a subject matter expert, leading multi-year assignments and guiding teams through structured solutions.
- Identify needs for input from other specialists.
- Train, guide, and coach less experienced colleagues.
- Provide insights impacting long-term profits, organisational risks, and strategic decisions.
Strategic Responsibilities
- Advise key stakeholders, including functional leadership teams and senior management, on areas of impact and alignment.
- Manage and mitigate risks through assessment, supporting the control and governance agenda.
- Demonstrate leadership and accountability for risk mitigation and control enhancement.
- Achieve business goals by applying a comprehensive understanding of organisational functions.
- Foster collaboration across business-aligned areas to align strategies with business objectives.
- Develop innovative solutions through sophisticated analysis and interpretative thinking.
- Incorporate extensive research outcomes into problem-solving processes.
- Build and maintain strong relationships with both internal and external stakeholders, leveraging influence and negotiation skills to achieve objectives.
- Adhere to and advocate our Barclays Values: Respect, Integrity, Service, Excellence, and Stewardship, alongside the Barclays Mindset: Empower, Challenge, and Drive.
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Essential Skills and Experience
- Leadership & Collaboration:
- Proven ability to manage and challenge engineering/technical teams, ensuring projects are delivered on time, with high quality and strong performance.
- Strong incident management skills, including cross-team coordination and risk-based prioritisation.
- Experienced in balancing supply and demand across multiple teams and stakeholders.
- Strategic mindset for shaping long-term roadmaps for applications and services.
- High-level leadership and stakeholder management, including the capability to influence senior decision makers.
Desirable Skills
- Domain knowledge of Barclays' Issuing technology landscape and CISO standards, controls, and governance expectations.
- Track record of successfully delivering complex enterprise-scale transformations, utilizing both Agile and Waterfall frameworks.
- Professional qualifications such as:
- Scaled Agile Framework (SAFe) Product Owner/Product Manager (POPM)
- ICAgile Product Ownership Certification
Additional Notes for Assessment
Your selection may rely on critical skills in areas including but not limited to:
- Risk and controls management
- Change and transformation leadership
- Business acumen and strategic thinking
- Digital and technology fluency
Role Location:
This role is based in Northampton.
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