Job description

Join us as a Technical 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 unparalleled customer experiences
As a part of team of developers, you will deliver technology stack, using strong analytical and problem solving skills to understand the business requirements and deliver quality solutions
Technical Product Owner (TPO) in the Risk Decision Systems, the incumbent will play a pivotal role in driving the development and optimization of risk decisioning systems, ensuring they align with business objectives, regulatory requirements, over all organizational aspiration and evolving customer needs

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

Must be expert in effective story writing pertaining to Functional and Non-Functional requirements
Must be conversant with creating effective documentations such as but not limited to :-
Business Process flows (Current and future state)
Customer Journey maps
Traceability mapping
Functional specification document
Must have elaborate knowledge on customer journeys across retail banking landscapes
Fair knowledge on AWS would be highly beneficials
Must be comfortable with data analysis and interpretations

Some Other Highly Valued Skills Includes

Act as an SME for the RDS Tech teams
Able to drive discussions with multitude of stakeholders with clear outcomes to be achieved
Must be a self-starter and should be able to scale up quickly
Prior knowledge of working on similar projects would be highly beneficial
Bridge between business stakeholders, risk management teams, and technical development squads, ensuring the delivery of scalable, reliable, and secure risk management solutions
Engage with key stakeholders (Risk, Compliance, Legal, Fraud, etc) to gather requirements and ensure the product meets compliance and risk management objectives
Act as the primary point of contact between business teams, development teams, and external vendors(where applicable)
Ensure clear communication of risk decision requirements to technical teams
Collaborate closely with engineering teams to translate business requirements into functional specifications and detailed user stories
Conversant with Scaled Agile process and the ceremonies there in
You may be assessed on 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 out of Pune

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 banks 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

Assistant Vice President Expectations

To advise and influence decision making, contribute to policy development and take responsibility for operational effectiveness
Collaborate closely with other functions/ business divisions
Lead a team performing complex tasks, using well developed professional knowledge and skills to deliver on work that impacts the whole business function
Set objectives and coach employees in pursuit of those objectives, appraisal of performance relative to objectives and determination of reward outcomes
If the position has leadership responsibilities, People Leaders are expected to demonstrate a clear set of leadership behaviours to create an environment for colleagues to thrive and deliver to a consistently excellent standard
The four LEAD behaviours are: L Listen and be authentic, E Energise and inspire, A Align across the enterprise, D Develop others OR for an individual contributor, they will lead collaborative assignments and guide team members through structured assignments, identify the need for the inclusion of other areas of specialisation to complete assignments
They will identify new directions for assignments and/ or projects, identifying a combination of cross functional methodologies or practices to meet required outcomes
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.