COO & Functions
Location
Pune | India
Job description
Job Title : Product Owner
Location: Pune
About Barclays
Barclays is a British universal bank. We are diversified by business, by different types of customers and clients, and by geography. Our businesses include consumer banking and payments operations around the world, as well as a top-tier, full service, global corporate and investment bank, all of which are supported by our service company which provides technology, operations and functional services across the Group.
Risk and Control Objective
Take ownership for managing risk and strengthening controls in relation to the work you do
Working Flexibly
We’re committed to providing a supportive and inclusive culture and environment for you to work in. This environment recognises and supports ways to balance your personal needs, alongside the professional needs of our business. Providing the opportunity for all our employees, globally to work flexibly empowers each of us to work in a way that suits our lives as well as enabling us to better service our customers’ and clients’ needs. Whether you have family commitments or you’re a carer, or whether you need study time or wish to pursue personal interests, our approach to working flexibly is designed to help you balance your life. If you would like some flexibility, then please discuss this with the hiring manager, and your request will be reviewed subject to business needs.
Hybrid Working
Structured hybrid role:
At Barclays, we offer a hybrid working experience that blends the positives of working alongside colleagues at our onsite locations, together with working from home. We have a structured approach where colleagues work at an onsite location on fixed, ‘anchor’, days of the week, for a minimum of two days a week or more, as set by the business area (or nearest equivalent if working part-time hours). Please discuss the working pattern requirements for the role you are applying for with the hiring manager. Please note that as we continue to embed our hybrid working environment, we remain in a test and learn phase, which means that working arrangements may be subject to change on reasonable notice to ensure we meet the needs of our business.
Introduction:
The Product Owner works closely with the Corporate Banking engineering & Architecture teams to deliver the expected capabilities, business outcomes and associated benefits to support specific business strategies within the Corporate Data Services team. They work with the various stakeholders to create, drive, evolve and communicate the overall product vision, roadmap and backlog.
What will you be doing?
• Manage Corporate Data Lake and/or other data products within CDS from product ownership perspective
• Develop and drive Product strategy & roadmap
• Manage multiple deliveries at a project and programme level simultaneously
• Accountability of all phases like detailed design, development, testing, deployment and roll out of application changes for projects.
• Commercials and resourcing
• Stakeholders management
• Delivery of all agreed change to time, quality and cost parameters
• Managing the delivery of change in the integrated technology environment
• Understanding the risk profile of change and ensuring that integrated testing is commensurate with that risk profile.
• Overall ownership of project delivery from roadmap and backlog perspective
• Establishing clear roles and responsibilities of the team
• Comply with risk management controls to ensure compliance and meet operational SLAs
• To understand the overall purpose of the projects and contribute to requirements & data analysis, and provide solutions
• Provide approval and oversight to requirement documents as entry criteria to detailed design and development
• Manage backlog & sprint planning and Agile fashion
Product Management and compliance to processes
• Lead Roadmap planning, backlog creation and prioritization with other Product Owners and Stakeholders across the Corporate Landscape
• Work closely with the Delivery Leads on the Resource management across Product PODs
• Manage governance forums & working groups
• Explore metrics across the product, collaborate with Tech Leads and Delivery Leads to derive team performance
• Provide product management information to the Product management team
• Mentor junior team members
• Raise and manage risks, assumptions, dependencies and issues in a timely manner in adherence to relevant standards
• Be able to provide multiple solutions and have the ability to choose the best course of action weighing up various factors that should be taken into consideration
.What we’re looking for:
• Experienced in Complex Deliveries
• Strong communication skills – ability to communicate in a clear and concise fashion
• Self-motivated and results focused
• Ability to meet/exceed targets and work under pressure to achieve migration targets.
• Minimum educational qualification required for this role is Bachelors.
Skills that will help you in the role:
• Experience of data engineering, curation, management insights, data analytics
• Experience of Cloud migration (AWS preferred)
• Experience of Banking domain
• Proven technical product management skills, demonstrating an ability to deliver to time, cost and quality parameters with pro-active management of risks, assumptions, issues and dependencies (RAID).
• Experienced in articulating business outcomes, features and elaborate user stories that support teams in delivery of functional requirements. This includes understanding the value of non-functional requirements and their importance in maintaining service to customers
• Sound stakeholder management skills.
• Strong leadership and communication skills
• Experience communicating technical aspects to non-technical stakeholders
• An understanding of contemporary distributed software development, including:
o Experience of building Data Lake & Warehouse
o Records management policies and procedures
o Technical Product Owner experience
o Ab Initio
o Strong design skills & data modelling
o Java, Microservices / API-oriented architectures
o New age databases such as MongoDB, Postgres, RDS etc
o Cloud & AWS
o Data Engineering & Business Intelligence
o Banking domain knowledge or experience
• Excellent written and oral communication skills, including the ability to write and present a range of written materials (presentations, briefings, reports) and to communicate effectively with stakeholders at all levels in various global locations.
• Experience working in an Agile environment at an Expert/Coach Level
Where will you be working?
Pune
Purpose, Values and Mindset
We deploy finance responsibly to support people and businesses, acting with empathy and integrity, championing innovation and sustainability, for the common good and the long term.
Our values underpin everything we do: Respect, Integrity, Service, Excellence and Stewardship.
Respect
We harness the power of diversity and inclusion in our business, trust those we work with, and value everyone's contribution.
Integrity
We operate with honesty, transparency and fairness in all we do.
Service
We act with empathy and humility, putting the people and businesses we serve at the centre of what we do.
Excellence
We champion innovation, and use our energy, expertise and resources to make a positive difference.
Stewardship
We prize sustainability, and are passionate about leaving things better than we found them.
Our Mindset shapes how we take action, living by our Values, driven by our Purpose, always with our customers and clients at the heart of what we do; our Mindset is to Empower, Challenge and Drive.
Empower
Trust and support each other to deliver. Make decisions with those closest to the topic. Include diverse perspectives. Celebrate success and learn from failure.
Challenge
Question whether things can be done better. Use insights based on data to inform decisions. Be curious about how we can adapt and improve. Speak up and be open to alternative viewpoints.
Drive
Focus on outcomes. Deliver with pace. Be passionate and ambitious about what we do. Take personal responsibility. Actively build collaborative relationships to get things done.
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