Description
We are seeking a Product Owner AVP at Barclays, where you will spearhead the evolution of our digital landscape, driving innovation and excellence.
The purpose of a Product Owner is to maximize the value of the product by defining a clear product vision, managing authoring, refining and prioritizing the Product Backlog balancing trade-offs across desirability, viability and feasibility – making sure the right thing is being built, and prioritising work based on business goals.
Accountabilities
- Ensure Product Alignment with Business Goals: Ensure that the product and its features are aligned with broader objectives, driving value and contributing to the organisation's overall strategy.
- Communicate Product Vision to Delivery Teams: Clearly articulate the product vision and goals to the delivery teams, ensuring they understand, align and are inspired to deliver the business value and purpose of each feature or user story.
- Create and Refine User Stories: Write clear, concise user stories with detailed acceptance criteria, refining them as needed to ensure the development team has all the necessary information to implement features successfully.
- Agile Events: Participate in key Agile events such as sprint planning, daily stand-ups, sprint reviews, and retrospectives to keep the team aligned and focused on delivering the product backlog.
- Managing the Product Backlog: Responsible for creating, maintaining, and prioritising the product backlog, ensuring the highest value features are delivered first, based on business needs, customer requirements and organisational impacts.
- Act as the Voice of the Customer: Continuously gather feedback from customers and end-users to understand their pain points and ensure that the product meets their needs and improves their overall experience.
- Acceptance Criteria Definition & Management: Review and accept or reject work completed by the development team during sprints, ensuring that all delivered features meet the agreed-upon acceptance criteria and deliver business value.
- Collaborate with Stakeholders: Work closely with stakeholders to gather requirements, define product goals, and ensure that the product vision aligns with business objectives.
- Monitor Product Performance and Iterate: Regularly assess product performance using KPIs and customer feedback, adjusting the product backlog and roadmap to improve functionality and meet evolving customer needs.
Assistant Vice President Expectations
- To advise and influence decision making, contribute to policy development and take responsibility for operational effectiveness.
- Lead a team performing complex tasks, using well-developed professional knowledge and skills to deliver on work that impacts the whole business function.
- 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.
Requirements
- Strong understanding of SDLC, Agile, Scrum, and DevOps practices.
- Understanding of software engineering concepts and system architecture.
- Experience with Agile tools such as Jira, AWS, DevOps, or Confluence.
- Understand API Integration.
- Proven experience in Process Mapping, Gap Analysis, Stakeholder Management, Retail and Digital Banking, Payments and Card Processing.
- Good understanding of KYC / AML Compliance, Core Banking Systems, Financial Products and Services and Risk and Regulatory Requirements.
- Proven ability to read and translate Open API/Swagger Specs and UCRs to define and document API requirements.
- Experience delivering API/integration change across the full lifecycle, working with engineering, architecture, and 3rd parties.
Preferred Skills
- Strong analytical and problem-solving abilities.
- Excellent communication and presentation skills.
- Ability to work with both technical and non-technical stakeholders.
- Strong facilitation and negotiation skills.
- Attention to detail and ability to manage multiple priorities.