Product Owner

Join us as a Product Owner at Barclays where you will shape, prioritise, and deliver high‑impact digital products that drive value across our platforms. As the voice of the customer and the bridge between business, technology, and delivery teams, you will define vision, build strong backlogs, and enable predictable, outcome‑focused delivery. You will champion customer needs, influence stakeholders, and ensure the product evolves to meet business goals through agile, scalable ways of working.

To be successful as a Product Owner, you should have experience with:

• Backlog management & prioritisation, including defining, refining, and sequencing the product backlog to maximise value in line with business goals and customer needs.

• Defining clear product vision and features, and guiding story creation and prioritisation during PI Planning and ongoing ceremonies.

• Acting as the voice of the customer, ensuring customer-centric delivery by providing timely feedback, clarifying requirements, and accepting stories and features during PI execution.

• Collaborating with cross‑functional stakeholders across Business, Technology, ToT (Team of Teams) and Architecture to ensure smooth execution and alignment.

Some other highly valued skills may include:

• Strong participation in Agile ceremonies, including Backlog Refinement, Sprint Planning, Sprint Demos, Daily Standups, PI Planning, and PO Sync.

• Skill in analytics, metrics, and continuous improvement, driving value delivery and adapting to feedback, trends, and evolving priorities.

• Experience aligning team backlogs with ToT‑level priorities, ensuring product evolution fits organisational strategy and roadmap.

• Commitment to ongoing professional development, leveraging Barclays learning pathways, communities of practice, and product‑focused capability uplift programs.

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.

The role is based out of Pune.

Purpose

Facilitates and coordinates Agile Release Trains (ARTs) to ensure that multiple teams within a program are aligned and delivering value efficiently. To manage dependencies, remove impediments, and oversee the planning and execution of Program Increments. Foster collaboration across teams, ensures alignment with business objectives, and drives continuous improvement in large-scale Agile environments.

Accountabilities

• Facilitate Agile Planning and Events: Accountable to ensure readiness across scope, content and logistics to deliver value through facilitation of team of teams events.     
• Support Planning Execution: Monitor planning execution, facilitate periodic synchronization events, and support cross-team backlog refinement to ensure strategic alignment to business goals.     
• Coach Cross-Team Agile: Provide coaching to teams and Scrum Masters on cross-team agile principles, team events, and practices    
• Mitigate Risks: Identify and track cross-team dependencies and risks, ensuring mitigation to support delivery of outcomes. Accountable to remove blockers.    
• Stakeholder Management: Facilitate stakeholder collaboration (e.g., business stakeholders, product teams, vendors), build trust with stakeholders, and drive stakeholder alignment    
• Champion Ways of Working:  Champion Ways of Working and Agile culture, creating a safe and trusting environment for team members to share ideas and take appropriate risks    
• Coordinate Interlock and Dependency Management: Drive partnership and synchronization across teams to facilitate release management across stakeholder groups. Accountable for effective readiness and communication     
• Optimize Flow: Drive towards relentless improvement and ensure value delivery by monitoring delivery status, ensuring technology use and data quality, addressing bottlenecks, and serving as a point of escalation    
• Metrics and Reporting: Track and report key metrics to provide representation at required leadership and governance forums and to ensure continuous delivery improvement