Deputy Head of Product - Leading FinTech & Consultancy

J.p. Morgan's Commercial & Investment Bank; City of Westminster; On-site; GBP 80,000 - 120,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading financial institution in the City of Westminster is looking for a Senior Engineering Product Owner to lead project management in enhancing their technology products within the Equity Derivatives business. The ideal candidate will have significant experience in project management and a solid foundation in software engineering. You'll collaborate with traders, structurers, and technologists to drive business strategies and oversee critical projects in a fast-paced environment.

Qualifications

• Experience in fast paced project management.
• A solid foundation in computer science and software engineering principles.
• Self-starter with the ability to quickly pick up new ideas, concepts and technologies.

Responsibilities

• Drive significant business impact through capabilities and contributions.
• Provide technical guidance and direction to support the business.
• Serve as a subject matter expert in one or more areas of focus.

Skills

Problem solving

Project management

Technical guidance

Analytical skills

Team player

Education

Formal training or equivalent experience in Product Management

Job description

Overview

Be an integral part of an agile team that's constantly pushing the envelope to enhance, build, and deliver top-notch technology products. As a Senior Engineering Product Owner at JPMorgan Chase within the Equity Derivatives business, you are an integral part of an agile team that works to enhance, build, and deliver trusted market-leading technology products in a secure, stable, and scalable way. Drive significant business impact through your capabilities and contributions, and apply deep technical expertise and problem-solving methodologies to tackle a diverse array of challenges that span multiple technologies and applications. You will be a front office product owner responsible for the technology book of work of a rapidly growing business within JP Morgan. You will work within a tight knit team of traders, structurers and technologists to help scale this business. We are looking for someone with experience of fast paced project management: forming a long term business strategy and a technology program to achieve this, triaging new project requests and prioritising them within the overall program, and helping push in flight projects through to completion.

• Front Office Product Owner
• Provides technical guidance and direction to support the business and its technical teams, contractors, and vendors
• Drives decisions that influence the product design, application functionality, and technical operations and processes
• Serves as a function-wide subject matter expert in one or more areas of focus
• Adds to the team culture of diversity, equity, inclusion, and respect
• Formal training or equivalent experience in Product Management
• Team player, able to communicate well with both fellow technologists and business users
• Excellent analytical skills (i.e. problem solving)
• A solid foundation in computer science and software engineering principles
• Self-starter with the ability to quickly pick up new ideas, concepts and technologies
• Disciplined approach to code management, testing and deployment practices

Preferred Qualifications, Capabilities, And Skills

• Experience of working in a front office environment within financial services