AVP, Technical Product Owner

What will you be doing?

Barclays Services Corp. seeks AVP, Technical Product Owner in Whippany, NJ (multiple positions available):

• Manage and maintain product backlog for the rewards earn platform services that integrate current and future technology platforms and existing back-end applications.

• Drive product development and implementation using Agile methodologies to refine product backlog items and define acceptance criteria.

• Analyze business, and other data processing problems to develop and implement solutions to complex applications problems, system administration issues, or network concerns.

• Analyze customer preferences and confer with Product Head, key stakeholders and Project Managers to support strategy and objectives of business and help facilitate project engagement and deployment.

• Implement strategic architecture solutions.

• Maintain product backlog, refine stories, and ensure backlog items are ready for development.

• Define acceptance criteria and ensure developed features meet defined standards.

• Confer with delivery teams to solve problems and facilitate impediment resolution in a timely, cost-effective manner to drive continuous improvement and ultimately, customer satisfaction.

• Plan, coordinate, and facilitate key requirements workshops with stakeholders, subject matter experts, and technical teams, and ensure alignment with user experience best practices.

• Review, analyze and document current state of existing systems and processes and elicit future state expectations from users and stakeholders, to produce high-quality project documents and artifacts that adhere to industry best practices and standards.

• Owning and coordinating demand capacity exercise as a part of the overall project planning liaising with leads of different areas required for quarterly project prioritization, planning and budgeting.

Minimum Salary: $161,200 per year 

Maximum Salary: $171,800 per year 

The minimum and maximum salary/rate information above includes only base salary or base hourly rate. It does not include any another type of compensation or benefits that may be available. 

Barclays employees are eligible for a suite of a competitive and generous employee benefits, including medical, dental and vision coverage, 401(k), life insurance, and other paid leave for qualifying circumstances. 

This position is eligible for an incentive award. 

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.

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.