Product Owner

Synechron; Sheffield; On-site; GBP 70,000 - 110,000; Full time

Job summary

Synechron is seeking an experienced Product Owner to own and prioritise the IAM product backlog. You will define Epics, Features, User Stories, and acceptance criteria, and capture, analyse, and refine business and technical requirements.

You will align business priorities with technical delivery in collaboration with Technical Leads, Architects, and engineering teams, while supporting sprint planning, release planning, and UAT.

Qualifications

• Proven experience as a Product Owner, Technical Product Owner, or Product Manager in an Agile delivery environment.
• Strong backlog management, prioritization, requirements engineering, and user story development.
• Experience defining Epics, Features, User Stories, acceptance criteria, and test scenarios.

Responsibilities

• Own, maintain, and prioritize the IAM product backlog.
• Define Epics, Features, User Stories, and acceptance criteria.
• Capture, analyze, and refine business and technical requirements.
• Align business priorities with technical delivery with Tech Leads, Architects, and engineering teams.
• Support sprint planning, backlog refinement, release planning, demonstrations, and UAT.
• Balance delivery priorities against technical debt, risk, and long-term sustainability.
• Coordinate dependencies across multiple delivery teams and tech workstreams.

Skills

Product Owner

Backlog management

Stakeholder management

Requirements engineering

User stories

IAM

Zero Trust

Agile delivery

Job description

Synechron is a leading digital consulting firm with 17,000+ collaborative employees in 55+ global offices across 17+ countries.

From our solid financial services industry foundation, we have become a prominent global digital consulting firm for large financial services and technology firms.

With a key focus on trust, and in partnership with our clients, we’re leading modernization and digital optimization journeys with expertise that spans Consulting, Data, Design, Cloud and Engineering across various industries.

We can provide you with customized end-to-end solutions that drive business value

Responsibilities:

• Own, maintain, and prioritize the IAM product backlog.
• Define Epics, Features, User Stories, and acceptance criteria.
• Capture, analyze, and refine business and technical requirements.
• Align business priorities with technical delivery in collaboration with Technical Leads, Architects, and engineering teams.
• Support sprint planning, backlog refinement, release planning, demonstrations, and User Acceptance Testing.
• Balance delivery priorities against technical debt, operational requirements, risk, and long-term product sustainability.
• Coordinate dependencies across multiple delivery teams and technology workstreams.
• Engage business stakeholders, technology partners, security teams, operations, and third-party suppliers.
• Ensure regulatory, audit, risk, and compliance requirements are represented within the product backlog.
• Monitor delivery progress, manage scope, and *escalate* risks, issues, and dependencies.
• Support product roadmaps, release planning, delivery reporting, and stakeholder communications.
• Drive measurable business outcomes and continuous improvement across IAM services.
• Promote production readiness, operational supportability, knowledge sharing, and clear product documentation.

Required Skills & Experience:

• Proven experience as a Product Owner, Technical Product Owner, or Product Manager in an Agile delivery environment.
• Strong experience in backlog management, prioritization, requirements engineering, and user story development.
• Experience defining Epics, Features, User Stories, acceptance criteria, and test scenarios.
• Strong stakeholder management, business analysis, communication, facilitation, and influencing skills.
• Experience collaborating with Technical Leads, Architects, Engineering, Security, Operations, Risk, Compliance, and third-party suppliers.
• Good understanding of Enterprise Identity and Access Management.
• Knowledge of authentication, authorization, identity lifecycle management, Zero Trust Architecture, and access governance.
• Familiarity with human and non-human identity, workload identity, agent identity, privileged access, secrets management, certificate lifecycle management, and API security.
• Understanding of cloud-native security, event-driven identity integration, observability, monitoring, audit, SSDLC, DevSecOps, and automation.
• Experience working in a regulated financial-services or banking environment.
• Ability to work effectively across multiple countries, cultures, and time zones.

Preferred Experience:

• Experience working on IAM transformation, identity security, Zero Trust, or cybersecurity products.
• Familiarity with platforms such as Microsoft Entra ID/Azure AD, SailPoint, CyberArk, Okta, Ping Identity, ForgeRock, Saviynt, or BeyondTrust.
• Experience with Agile frameworks such as Scrum, SAFe, or Kanban.
• Relevant Product Owner, Agile, cybersecurity, IAM, cloud, or technology risk certifications.
• Experience coordinating complex enterprise products across multiple teams and technology suppliers.

What you will bring:

• A customer-focused and outcome-oriented product mindset.
• The ability to translate complex IAM requirements into clear and actionable product priorities.
• Strong judgment when balancing business value, delivery effort, technical debt, risk, security, and operational requirements.
• The confidence to engage stakeholders at different technical and organizational levels.
• A collaborative approach to working across architecture, engineering, security, operations, risk, compliance, and suppliers.

Awards:

2022: Voted in Top 25 Best Companies to Work for by the Business Intelligence Group

2021: Winner of the Gold Globee Award for Employer Excellence in Career Growth, Development & Training

2021: Synechron recognized with a Silver Level Award for COVID-19 Support Strategy

2020: Winner of the Team of the Year Award at the US FinTech Awards

2020: Synechron FinLabs won a Gold Stevie Award at the Asia-Pacific Stevie Awards

We are proud to be an equal opportunity employer. Our Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion initiative, Same Difference, is committed to fostering an inclusive culture that promotes equality, diversity, and respect.

We encourage applicants from diverse backgrounds, races, ethnicities, religions, ages, marital statuses, genders, sexual orientations, and abilities to apply.

We offer flexible workplace arrangements, mentoring, internal mobility, and learning and development programs to support our global workforce. Empowerment and collaboration are at the core of how we operate