Product Owner
Summary
Product Owner in Birmingham owning and managing product backlogs across feature teams, leading re-platforming of legacy applications onto modern cloud tech (Google Cloud, Azure) in the UK commercial lending space. Day to day: JIRA backlog management, Agile delivery coordination, and change governance with stakeholders.
- Own and manage the Product Backlog across feature teams, leading the re-platforming of legacy applications into modern tech solutions.
- Provide thought and product leadership to guide the vision and execution of product backlogs and roadmaps.
- Educate and mentor team members to deliver on the product vision effectively.
- Collaborate with customers and colleagues, including executive stakeholders, to build backlogs and roadmaps that prioritize both engineering and customer requirements.
- Demonstrate strong ownership, integrity, and collaboration across internal, external, and third-party teams.
- Act as the voice of the customer, influencing, challenging, and building trust and consensus among teams and stakeholders.
- Maintain resilience and composure under pressure, ensuring the team acts in the best interest of the customer and is open to challenging the status quo.
- Adopt a big-picture approach, identifying opportunities for products and services to support business goals.
- Communicate effectively, translating business needs for feature teams and telling compelling product stories.
- Show passion for technology, committed to delivering high-quality, maintainable solutions for current and future needs.
- Collaborate closely with specialists, engineers, suppliers, and partners to achieve shared goals.
- Engage and build rapport with colleagues and partners, fostering meaningful collaboration.
- Demonstrate intellectual curiosity, embracing new insights and ideas while upholding integrity and continuous learning.
- Manage technical backlogs across stakeholder groups, leveraging experience with Google Cloud Data Science, DevOps, Google Public Cloud, Kyndrel, and Azure.
- Possess strong understanding of the UK Commercial Lending landscape to guide technology modernization.
- Expert in building and managing Product Backlogs using JIRA, including defining features, user stories, and acceptance criteria.
- Accountable for product change governance, ensuring compliance and proper management of change processes.
- Prioritize and coordinate backlog delivery with Customer Journey Managers, Integrators (Delivery Managers), and Engineering teams using Agile methodologies.
- Collaborate with external parties, managing dependencies and tracking work to successful completion.
- Experience in Bank Change Process & Governance, ready to adapt expertise to new platform models, manage project risk, mitigation, and product budgets.