Product Owner – Salesforce Platform engineer

3761 Barclays - BX - UK; Knutsford; On-site; GBP 70,000 - 95,000; Full time

Job summary

Barclays in Knutsford seeks a Product Owner to lead the delivery of large-scale technology projects and strategic capabilities across the bank.

You will collaborate with Architects, Business Analysts, QA teams, and stakeholders to translate business needs into scalable technical solutions and own end-to-end feature delivery.

The role requires strong leadership, mentoring, risk management and ensuring alignment with regulatory and security policies.

Qualifications

• Lead technical design discussions translating business requirements into scalable technical solutions.
• Mentor developers and provide technical guidance across project teams.
• Estimate effort, identify technical risks, and drive delivery commitments.
• Collaborate with Architects, Business Analysts, QA teams, and stakeholders.
• Own end-to-end feature delivery and release execution.

Responsibilities

• Lead delivery of large-scale technology projects and strategic capabilities across the bank.
• Coordinate with stakeholders to understand needs and set expectations throughout the lifecycle.
• Ensure delivery adheres to time, budget, quality, and security requirements.
• Manage vendor relations and align with regulatory policies.
• Stay abreast of industry trends to improve outcomes and technical excellence.

Skills

Technical leadership

Mentoring developers

Estimation

Stakeholder collaboration

Delivery ownership

Tools

Apex

LWC

Salesforce security

REST

SOAP

Platform Events

Named Credentials

Job description

Job Description Purpose of the role To manage the efficient delivery of large-scale technical projects and capabilities across the bank and collaborate with internal and external stakeholders to understand their needs and expectations throughout the software product lifecycle, adhering to agreed time, budget and quality requirements.

Accountabilities

Management of the delivery, resource allocation and improvement of complex technical project capabilities across the bank using Agile/Scrum methodologies for planning, stand-ups, demos, retrospectives and the execution of sprints. Collaboration with customers and business teams to manage and implement customer trails to support the proposal of technically feasible solutions, and effort and timeline expectations. Collaboration with software engineers, quality teams, product managers and other engineering teams to deliver high-quality products and features through the software project lifecycle aligned to the banks objectives, regulation and security policies. Identification, assessment, and mitigation of risks associated with technical projects to prepare the bank for potential challenges. Management of change requests and communication with stakeholders throughout the project lifecycle. Management of vendor relations involved in technical projects to ensure they deliver according to agreed terms. Stay abreast of the latest industry technology trends and technologies, to evaluate and adopt new approaches to improving deliver outcomes and to foster a culture of continuous learning, technical excellence and growth.

Vice President Expectations

To contribute or set strategy, drive requirements and make recommendations for change. Plan resources, budgets, and policies; manage and maintain policies/ processes; deliver continuous improvements and elevate breaches of policies/procedures.. If managing a team, they define jobs and responsibilities, planning for the department’s future needs and operations, counselling employees on performance and contributing to employee pay decisions/changes. They may also lead a number of specialists to influence the operations of a department, in alignment with strategic as well as tactical priorities, while balancing short and long term goals and ensuring that budgets and schedules meet corporate requirements.. If the position has leadership responsibilities, People Leaders are expected to demonstrate a clear set of leadership behaviours to create an environment for colleagues to thrive and deliver to a consistently excellent standard. The four LEAD behaviours are: L – Listen and be authentic, E – Energise and inspire, A – Align across the enterprise, D – Develop others.. OR for an individual contributor, they will be a subject matter expert within own discipline and will guide technical direction. They will lead collaborative, multi-year assignments and guide team members through structured assignments, identify the need for the inclusion of other areas of specialisation to complete assignments. They will train, guide and coach less experienced specialists and provide information affecting long term profits, organisational risks and strategic decisions.. Advise key stakeholders, including functional leadership teams and senior management on functional and cross functional areas of impact and alignment. Manage and mitigate risks through assessment, in support of the control and governance agenda. Demonstrate leadership and accountability for managing risk and strengthening controls in relation to the work your team does. Demonstrate comprehensive understanding of the organisation functions to contribute to achieving the goals of the business. Collaborate with other areas of work, for business aligned support areas to keep up to speed with business activity and the business strategies. Create solutions based on sophisticated analytical thought comparing and selecting complex alternatives. In-depth analysis with interpretative thinking will be required to define problems and develop innovative solutions. Adopt and include the outcomes of extensive research in problem solving processes. Seek out, build and maintain trusting relationships and partnerships with internal and external stakeholders in order to accomplish key business objectives, using influencing and negotiating skills to achieve outcomes. All colleagues will be expected to demonstrate the Barclays Values of Respect, Integrity, Service, Excellence and Stewardship – our moral compass, helping us do what we believe is right. They will also be expected to demonstrate the Barclays Mindset – to Empower, Challenge and Drive – the operating manual for how we behave.

Product Owner Overview

Join our team as Product Owner, where you will lead the delivery of large-scale technology projects and strategic capabilities across the bank.

Essential skills

• Ability to lead technical design discussions and translate business requirements into scalable technical solutions.
• Experience mentoring developers and providing technical guidance across project teams.
• Ability to estimate effort, identify technical risks, and drive delivery commitments.
• Experience collaborating with Architects, Business Analysts, QA teams, and stakeholders.
• Strong ownership mindset with experience leading end-to-end feature delivery and release execution.

Highly valued skills

• Strong Apex development experience including Triggers, Classes, Batch Apex, Queueable Apex, and asynchronous processing.
• Hands-on expertise in Lightning Web Components (LWC) and modern Salesforce UI development.
• Strong understanding of Salesforce security architecture, including Profiles, Permission Sets, Sharing Rules, and Role Hierarchies.
• Experience designing scalable Salesforce data models and enterprise-grade solutions.
• Experience with Salesforce integrations using REST, SOAP, Platform Events, and Named Credentials.

You may be assessed on the key critical skills relevant for success in role, such as risk and controls, change and transformation, business acumen strategic thinking and digital and technology, as well as job-specific technical skills This role is based out of our Knutsford office. Our Work Experience is the combination of everything that's unique about us: our culture, our core values, our company meetings, our commitment to sustainability, our recognition programs, but most importantly, it's our people. Our employees are self-disciplined, hard working, curious, trustworthy, humble, and truthful. They make choices according to what is best for the team, they live for opportunities to collaborate and make a difference, and they make us the #1 Top Workplace in the area.