Technical Product Owner reference: 0000078477

Technical Product Owner – Digital Platform Engineering (Open Banking Focus)

Are you an experienced Product Owner with a strong Agile mindset looking to make a significant impact within a dynamic Digital Platform Engineering team? This role presents a unique opportunity to guide fellow Product Owners, refine story writing, and gain invaluable exposure and recognition for your contributions. Join us as we embark on the next phase of our Open Banking initiatives, a pivotal area for the bank.

In this exciting role, you will play a crucial part in enhancing the software resilience of the bank. You'll delve into software switches and explore cutting-edge, modern solutions to drive innovation. This is an ideal time to join and shape the future of our digital platforms.

What You Will Bring:

• API Product Strategy and Vision: The ability to articulate and champion a clear API product vision that directly supports our business objectives and meets user needs.
• Backlog and Lifecycle Management: Proven skill in managing an API product backlog, crafting effective user stories, prioritizing initiatives based on business value, and fostering seamless collaboration with the engineering team.
• Developer Experience (DX) Focus: A deep understanding of what constitutes exceptional documentation, streamlined onboarding, robust versioning, and comprehensive support for API consumers to ensure widespread adoption and effective utilization.

Highly Valued Skills for Success:

• Technical Understanding of API Technologies: Familiarity with REST, OpenAPI specifications, and various authentication methods.
• Stakeholder Communication and Relationship Management: The capacity to translate complex technical API features into tangible business value and cultivate strong relationships with internal API consumers.
• Scaled Agile/Lean Product Management: Experience with frameworks such as SAFe (Scaled Agile Framework), Lean Portfolio Management, or Lean product development, and how to align API product delivery with broader organizational priorities.

Your assessment will focus on key critical skills essential for success in this role, including risk and controls, change and transformation, business acumen, strategic thinking, and digital and technology expertise, in addition to job-specific technical proficiencies.

This position is based in Knutsford.

The Purpose of Your Role:

As a Technical Product Owner, you will collaborate closely with product owners and other technical teams involved in product development. You will leverage your deep knowledge of the bank's technologies to bring the product roadmap vision to life.

Your Accountabilities Will Include:

• Providing subject matter expertise to facilitate effective collaboration between product owners and the technical aspects of product development.
• Supporting the development and implementation of the product strategy and vision, communicating them effectively to stakeholders and the development team.
• Collaborating with internal stakeholders to gather and prioritize product requirements and features, ensuring they are well-defined, measurable, secure, and aligned with business value and feasibility.
• Developing and implementing assessments to ensure continuous testing and improvement of product quality and performance.
• Monitoring product performance to identify opportunities for optimization that meet the bank's high-performance standards.
• Staying abreast of the latest industry technology trends to evaluate and adopt new approaches that enhance product development and delivery.

Vice President Expectations:

In this role, you will be expected to contribute to or set strategy, drive requirements, and make recommendations for change. This includes planning resources, budgets, and policies, managing processes, delivering continuous improvements, and escalating policy breaches. If managing a team, you will define roles, plan for future needs, counsel employees, and contribute to pay decisions. As an individual contributor, you will be a subject matter expert, guiding technical direction, leading complex assignments, and coaching less experienced specialists. You will advise key stakeholders, manage and mitigate risks, and demonstrate a comprehensive understanding of organizational functions to contribute to business goals.

All colleagues are expected to embody the Barclays Values: Respect, Integrity, Service, Excellence, and Stewardship. You will also be expected to demonstrate the Barclays Mindset: Empower, Challenge, and Drive.