Public Cloud Product Owner

Lloyds Banking Group; Halifax; Hybrid; GBP 76,000 - 90,000; Full time

Job summary

An established industry player is seeking a Public Cloud Product Owner to lead the modernization of their cloud platform. This role involves managing product backlogs, collaborating with cross-functional teams, and ensuring customer-centric solutions. With a focus on Microsoft Azure and Google Cloud Platform, you'll drive product delivery and improvements, shaping the future of financial services. Join a diverse and inclusive workplace that values your contributions and supports your growth while making a significant impact on millions of customers. If you're passionate about cloud technologies and want to make a difference, this opportunity is for you.

Benefits

Generous pension contribution up to 15%

Annual performance-related bonus

Share schemes including free shares

Discounted shopping benefits

30 days holiday plus bank holidays

Wellbeing initiatives

Generous parental leave policies

Qualifications

• Experience in delivering cloud-related products, especially Google or Azure.
• Excellent communication skills for interaction with customers and engineers.

Responsibilities

• Ownership of product backlogs and prioritizing product features.
• Responsible for product change governance and business readiness activities.

Skills

Cloud Product Delivery

Azure

Google Cloud Platform

Communication Skills

Cloud Security Best Practices

Tools

Azure Kubernetes Service (AKS)

Google Kubernetes Engine (GKE)

Terraform

Apigee

Kafka

Job description

End Date

Sunday 13 April 2025

Salary Range

£76,194 - £89,640

We support flexible working – click here for more information on flexible working options

Flexible Working Options

Hybrid Working, Job Share

Job Description Summary

Job Description

JOB TITLE: Public Cloud Product Owner

SALARY: £90,440-£106,400 in London, or £76,194-£89,640 outside of London

LOCATION(S): London, Halifax, Leeds, Manchester or Edinburgh

HOURS: Full time

WORKING PATTERN: Our work style is hybrid, which involves spending at least two days per week, or 40% of our time, at our locations noted above.

About this Opportunity:

We are modernising with cloud, a platform that is quick, secure and resilient for customers and easy, modern and green for developers.

Our core technology focus is on Microsoft Azure and Google Cloud Platform.

We are particularly interested in people with experience in one or more of the following: Azure Kubernetes Service (AKS), Google Kubernetes Engine (GKE), Windows Server, Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL), Terraform, Azure Arc, Azure Policy, Apigee, Azure API Management, Harness, Backstage, VMware Aria Suite, Kafka and modern middleware or integration products.

You will be responsible for the ownership of our product backlogs which contains features, journeys or technology components. You would report into the Lead Product Owner and work collaboratively with the Engineering Lead and Engineers.

You’ll lead all aspects of the release of incremental value within an overall product, with the primary aim of delivering value to our customers and collaborators by ensuring the team focuses on the right priorities.

Responsible for:

• Development of Team objectives and key results and provides product performance and benefits realisation data
• Crafts Product vision and strategy
• Prioritises, refines and handles our Product backlog
• Defines user-stories to meet customer needs
• Works closely with our Customer Journey Managers to analyse user stories for customer journey improvements
• Accountable for Product change governance (e.g., CMIA / SPFIA) and Business Readiness activities (e.g., training and comms, testing and readiness for implementation) for their respective features, journeys or technology components.
• Plays a role in developing capabilities within their functional area and invests in personal and team growth through mentoring and other informal methods
• Closely collaborating with Integrators on the delivery of change
• Delivers against a product budget, performing financial and data analysis

Product Delivery

• Leads improvements on product development process and delivery using new methodology, techniques, tools, etc.
• Shapes the direction for cross-functional teams to deliver products in innovative delivery methods.
• Leads the definition, development, and/or delivery of a significant product or service of the organisation's development/engineering programme
• Offers to ensure alignment with customer requirements, and/or leads a medium-size product development/specialist team.

Customer Centricity

• Promotes value of customer outcomes with team and peers and ensures work efforts achieve these.
• Anticipates customer’s needs and uses customer input and steer to present targeted, coordinated, and outcome-focused solutions and opportunities.

Product Ownership

• Takes ownership of a backlog supported by multiple teams.
• Delivers simple and sophisticated tech changes to a product and is responsible for its success/failure.
• Supervises work across the relevant teams and ensures the right tools and processes implemented.
• Uses experience to prioritise work and lead backlog efficiently and demonstrates a good level of domain knowledge.

What you’ll need

You should have experience of at least two or more of the following:

• Delivery experience of Cloud related products Google or Azure
• The Google Cloud Data Science product set
• Improving the Developer Experience e.g. Streamlining and simplifying the Onboarding and time to being fully productive processes
• Implementing the processes for a Product Catalogue for consumption by internal engineers
• An understanding of cloud security best practices and principles
• Has excellent communication skills for interaction with both our customers and the many Product teams of highly skilled engineers,
• Ability to work with multiple 3rd Party Vendors, building effective, partnering relationships.

Curious to know more? Join us for an ask me anything session on Tuesday 22nd from 12:00 to 13:00. If you would like to be included in this call, please email [e-mail]

About working for us

Our focus is to ensure we're inclusive every day, building an organisation that reflects modern society and celebrates diversity in all its forms. We want our people to feel that they belong and can be their best, regardless of background, identity, or culture. We were one of the first major organisations to set goals on diversity in senior roles, create a menopause health package, and a dedicated Working with Cancer initiative. And it’s why we especially welcome applications from under-represented groups. We’re disability confident. So, if you’d like reasonable adjustments to be made to our recruitment processes, just let us know.

We also offer a wide-ranging benefits package, which includes

• A generous pension contribution of up to 15%
• An annual performance-related bonus
• Share schemes including free shares.
• Benefits you can adapt to your lifestyle, such as discounted shopping.
• 30 days’ holiday, with bank holidays on top
• A range of wellbeing initiatives and generous parental leave policies

Want to do amazing work, that’s interesting and makes a difference to millions of people? Join our journey.

At Lloyds Banking Group, we're driven by a clear purpose; to help Britain prosper. Across the Group, our colleagues are focused on making a difference to customers, businesses and communities. With us you'll have a key role to play in shaping the financial services of the future, whilst the scale and reach of our Group means you'll have many opportunities to learn, grow and develop.

We keep your data safe. So, we'll only ever ask you to provide confidential or sensitive information once you have formally been invited along to an interview or accepted a verbal offer to join us which is when we run our background checks. We'll always explain what we need and why, with any request coming from a trusted Lloyds Banking Group person.

We're focused on creating a values-led culture and are committed to building a workforce which reflects the diversity of the customers and communities we serve. Together we’re building a truly inclusive workplace where all of our colleagues have the opportunity to make a real difference.