Workday Technical Product Owner

• The purpose of this role is to lead the HR Technology service provision in the US, which is a key component in building out a Global HR Technology presence for Barclays.  As such, the role will work across the full HR Technology portfolio.
• You will partner with HR Leadership to define and pursue a technology strategy, which fully exploits our investment in Workday, leveraging your deep HR Technology market knowledge to influence our roadmap. The role requires deep Workday strategic development and adoption expertise. 
• The role will be a key face-off into the HR Colleague Experience Team, in support of our ongoing transition to an Agile Value / Journey aligned delivery model.
• Reporting locally to the HR CIO and with a matrix line into the Global Workday Platform Owner, the role will lead a regional team as well as managing delivery through a global pool of resources on a matrix basis. 
• Advise on strategic technology trends and best practice to inform the development of the Workday product roadmap, in close collaboration with leadership and the HR Colleague Experience Team.
• Partner with leadership and key stakeholders to support organization strategic objectives, leveraging Workday functionality to ease administrative burden and build efficient, effective and scalable processes.
• Serve as an expert for all things Workday – engaging with Workday Community, Rising, user groups, collaboration crews staying ahead of Workday updates, fixes, resolutions and ensuring Barclays gets the most out of current and future Workday capabilities.
• Architect Workday solution to ensure that all work-streams are cohesive and that cross-functional impacts are considered and mitigated 
• Work closely with key stakeholders from the business to drive prioritization of feature requests and initiatives in Workday.

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.

Director Expectations

• Provide expert advice to senior functional management and committees to influence decisions made outside of own function, offering significant input to function wide strategic initiatives.
• Manage, coordinate and enable resourcing, budgeting and policy creation for a significant sub-function.
• Escalates breaches of policies / procedure appropriately.
• Foster and guide compliance, ensure regulations are observed that relevant processes in place to facilitate adherence.
• Focus on the external environment, regulators, or advocacy groups to both monitor and influence on behalf of Barclays, when appropriate.
• Demonstrate extensive knowledge of how the function integrates with the business division / Group to achieve the overall business objectives.
• Maintain broad and comprehensive knowledge of industry theories and practices within own discipline alongside up-to-date relevant sector / functional knowledge, and insight into external market developments / initiatives.
• Use interpretative thinking and advanced analytical skills to solve problems and design solutions in often complex/ sensitive situations.
• Exercise management authority to make significant decisions and certain strategic decisions or recommendations within own area.
• Negotiate with and influence stakeholders at a senior level both internally and externally.
• Act as principal contact point for key clients and counterparts in other functions/ businesses divisions.
• Mandated as a spokesperson for the function and business division.

All Senior 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.

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.