Junior Technical Product Owner

Join Us as a Junior Technical Product Owner. Are you looking to build your career in payments and financial technology? We are seeking a motivated Junior Payments Analyst to join our growing team and play a key role in supporting the delivery and enhancement of payment solutions across our organisation.

As a Junior Payments Analyst, you will work closely with business stakeholders, technical teams, and payment specialists to analyse requirements, support solution design, and help ensure the successful delivery of payment services and initiatives.

Essential Skills

1. Cross-Functional Translation

• Ability to bridge the gap between business stakeholders and back-end developers.

• Strong verbal and written communication skills with the ability to explain complex concepts clearly to different audiences.

2. Critical Thinking & Problem Solving

• Ability to translate business requirements into end-to-end solution designs, including payment journeys.

• Experience conducting gap analysis and identifying process improvements.

• Strong analytical and problem-solving capabilities.

3. Payments Knowledge

• Working knowledge of ISO 20022 payment messages and interface specifications used for internal system integration.

• Basic understanding of payment applications and payment processing environments.

Desirable Skills

• Knowledge of instant payment schemes, such as Faster Payments (FPS) or SEPA Instant Payments.

• Understanding of Faster Payments-related payment messaging standards.

• Exposure to:

  • ISO 8583 messaging (commonly used within FPS environments).

  • ISO 20022 formats, including pacs, pain, and admi message types.

• Experience working within an Agile environment, particularly writing features, epics, and user stories.

This role is based in Knutsford.

You may be assessed on the 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

Purpose of the role

To support the organisation, achieve its strategic objectives by the identification of business requirements and solutions that address business problems and opportunities. 

Accountabilities

• Identification and analysis of business problems and client requirements that require change within the organisation.
• Development of business requirements that will address business problems and opportunities.
• Collaboration with stakeholders to ensure that proposed solutions meet their needs and expectations.
• Support the creation of business cases that justify investment in proposed solutions.
• Conduct feasibility studies to determine the viability of proposed solutions.
• Support the creation of reports on project progress to ensure proposed solutions are delivered on time and within budget.
• Creation of operational design and process design to ensure that proposed solutions are delivered within the agreed scope.
• Support to change management activities, including development of a traceability matrix to ensure proposed solutions are successfully implemented and embedded in the organisation.

Analyst Expectations

• To perform prescribed activities in a timely manner and to a high standard consistently driving continuous improvement.
• Requires in-depth technical knowledge and experience in their assigned area of expertise
• Thorough understanding of the underlying principles and concepts within the area of expertise
• They lead and supervise a team, guiding and supporting professional development, allocating work requirements and coordinating team resources.
• 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 develop technical expertise in work area, acting as an advisor where appropriate.
• Will have an impact on the work of related teams within the area.
• Partner with other functions and business areas.
• Takes responsibility for end results of a team’s operational processing and activities.
• Escalate breaches of policies / procedure appropriately.
• Take responsibility for embedding new policies/ procedures adopted due to risk mitigation.
• Advise and influence decision making within own area of expertise.
• Take ownership for managing risk and strengthening controls in relation to the work you own or contribute to. Deliver your work and areas of responsibility in line with relevant rules, regulation and codes of conduct.
• Maintain and continually build an understanding of how own sub-function integrates with function, alongside knowledge of the organisations products, services and processes within the function.
• Demonstrate understanding of how areas coordinate and contribute to the achievement of the objectives of the organisation sub-function.
• Make evaluative judgements based on the analysis of factual information, paying attention to detail.
• Resolve problems by identifying and selecting solutions through the application of acquired technical experience and will be guided by precedents.
• Guide and persuade team members and communicate complex / sensitive information.
• Act as contact point for stakeholders outside of the immediate function, while building a network of contacts outside team and external to the organisation.

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.