Technical Product Owner

Join Barclays as a Technical Product Owner to drive the development of impactful data products that meet evolving business needs. You'll shape and manage backlogs, collaborate across teams, and lead innovation in data tools, particularly within the Enterprise Data Platform. This role focuses on execution, delivery, and modernisation, with a strong emphasis on AI integration and business value.

To be successful in this role, you will need the following:

• Deep understanding of data, including metadata, lineage, entitlements, data products, data modelling, data curation, APIs, and data analytics in a hybrid cloud and on-premise environment.
• Experience managing end to end product lifecycle from ideation to launch and optimisation with a focus on scalability and user experience.
• Proven capability to manage diverse stakeholders, navigate ambiguity, and drive consensus across business and tech teams.
• Ability to define and align the vision for data tools, platforms, and products with business goals, market trends, and regulatory expectations.

Some other highly valued skills may include:

• Experience leading transformation initiatives, especially in modernising legacy platforms and driving adoption of federated data products.
• Ability to rapidly prototype and refine concepts using tools such as Figma, enhancing stakeholder engagement and user experience.
• Comfortable with Agile methodologies and terminology to enable fast, iterative product development.

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.

The successful candidate will be based in Northampton (Pavilion Drive).

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 bank’s 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.

Vice President Expectations

• Contribute or set strategy, drive requirements and make recommendations for change. Plan resources, budgets, and policies; manage and maintain policies/processes; deliver continuous improvements and escalate breaches of policies/procedures.
• Be a subject matter expert within own discipline and will guide technical direction. Lead collaborative, multi-year assignments and guide team members through structured assignments, identify the need for the inclusion of other areas of specialisation to complete assignments. Train, guide and coach less experienced specialists and provide information affecting long term profits, organisational risks and strategic decisions.
• Advise key stakeholders, including functional leadership teams and senior management on functional and cross functional areas of impact and alignment.
• Manage and mitigate risks through assessment, in support of the control and governance agenda.
• Demonstrate leadership and accountability for managing risk and strengthening controls in relation to the work your team does.
• Demonstrate comprehensive understanding of the organisation functions to contribute to achieving the goals of the business.
• Collaborate with other areas of work, for business aligned support areas to keep up to speed with business activity and the business strategies.
• Create solutions based on sophisticated analytical thought comparing and selecting complex alternatives. In-depth analysis with interpretative thinking will be required to define problems and develop innovative solutions.
• Adopt and include the outcomes of extensive research in problem solving processes.
• Seek out, build and maintain trusting relationships and partnerships with internal and external stakeholders in order to accomplish key business objectives, using influencing and negotiating skills 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.