Senior Product Owner

Allianz UK; Datchet; Hybrid; GBP 63,000 - 77,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Flexible holiday options

Hybrid working

Annual bonus

Pension scheme

Development days

Insurance product discounts (car, home

Retail discounts

Volunteering days

Job summary

Allianz UK is seeking a Senior Product Owner to drive vision, strategy and roadmaps for complex integration products. You will own backlogs, prioritise work across multiple stakeholders and collaborate with Business, Architecture, Change and Engineering to deliver meaningful outcomes.

The role involves quarterly planning, backlog refinement, and release planning with cross-functional teams, leading agile practices and ensuring customer voice guides product decisions. Hybrid Datchet office.

Qualifications

• Experience as a Senior Product Owner or Product Owner in a technology-focused environment.
• Experience leading product delivery and prioritising work across multiple stakeholders.
• Excellent understanding of Agile delivery methodologies (Scrum and Kanban).
• Strong technical understanding of integration technologies, APIs and microservice architectures.
• Experience delivering customer-focused, data-informed solutions.
• Proven ability to develop product strategies, roadmaps and prioritised backlogs.
• Effective stakeholder engagement across technical and business audiences.

Responsibilities

• Define and communicate the vision, strategy and roadmap for complex integration products and capabilities.
• Own and prioritise multiple product backlogs, ensuring delivery aligns with business objectives and customer needs.
• Collaborate across Business, Architecture, Change and Engineering to align priorities and deliver outcomes.
• Lead quarterly planning with agile teams, supporting estimation, roadmap planning and delivery forecasting.
• Promote agile product development and continuous value delivery through incremental releases.
• Act as the voice of the customer and business, ensuring measurable outcomes against KPIs.
• Manage dependencies across teams and programmes to support strategic initiatives.
• Facilitate backlog refinement, user stories and release planning with cross-functional teams.
• Provide timely decision-making and day-to-day product direction for delivery teams.
• Approve completed work meeting acceptance criteria and fit for purpose.
• Identify and resolve risks, blockers and dependencies.
• Coach and mentor Product Owners and grow agile practices across the organisation.
• Create opportunities for customer feedback throughout development lifecycle.

Skills

Senior Product Owner experience

Product delivery leadership

Agile delivery (Scrum/Kanban)

APIs & microservices

Data-driven decision making

Roadmapping & prioritisation

Stakeholder management

Excellent communication

Cross-functional collaboration

Team mentoring

Tools

Agile tooling

Job description

Role Description

Join our Allianz Pet Ecosystem team and help shape how Allianz connects with partners across the pet insurance landscape, including vets, charities, breeders and microchippers. You will provide strategic product ownership for integration-focused agile teams, helping to deliver customer-centred technology solutions while supporting the development of product management capability across the wider organisation.

Location:

This role is based in our Datchet, Ditton Park office. Please note that this is a hybrid working role with the expectation that you will attend the office 40% of your time.

Salary Information

Pay: Circa £70,000 per year.

The salary offered will reflect your experience, skills and location and forms part of our wider total rewards package.

About You

As a Senior Product Owner, you will:

• Define and communicate the vision, strategy and roadmap for complex integration products and capabilities.


• Own and prioritise multiple product backlogs, ensuring delivery aligns with business objectives and customer needs.


• Collaborate with colleagues across Business, Architecture, Change and Engineering to align priorities and deliver meaningful outcomes.


• Lead quarterly planning activities with agile teams, supporting estimation, roadmap planning and delivery forecasting.


• Promote agile product development best practice and continuous value delivery through incremental releases.


• Act as the voice of the customer and business, ensuring products deliver measurable outcomes against agreed KPIs.


• Manage dependencies across teams and programmes to support the successful delivery of strategic initiatives.


• Facilitate backlog refinement, user story development and release planning with cross-functional teams.


• Provide timely decision-making and day-to-day product direction to support delivery teams.


• Approve completed work, ensuring solutions meet agreed acceptance criteria and are fit for purpose.


• Identify, upscale and help resolve risks, blockers and dependencies.


• Coach and mentor Product Owners and support the growth of agile product practices across the organisation.


• Create opportunities for teams to engage with customer and user feedback throughout the development lifecycle.

Essential Skills

• Experience working as a Senior Product Owner or Product Owner within a technology-focused environment.


• Demonstrated experience leading product delivery and prioritising work across multiple stakeholders.


• Excellent understanding of Agile delivery methodologies, including Scrum and Kanban.


• Sound technical understanding of integration technologies, APIs and microservice architectures.


• Experience delivering customer-focused, data-informed solutions.


• Proven ability to develop product strategies, roadmaps and prioritised backlogs.


• Effective stakeholder engagement and influencing skills across technical and business audiences.


• Excellent communication skills with the ability to build trust and shared understanding.


• Ability to make balanced, risk-based decisions in a changing environment.


• Experience managing dependencies across multiple teams and initiatives.


• Leadership skills with the ability to motivate, support and enable cross-functional teams.


• Experience coaching, mentoring and developing others.

Desirable Skills

• Experience working within insurance, financial services or another regulated environment.


• Agile Product Owner certification or other recognised Agile qualifications.


• Experience working within integration-focused or platform product teams.


• Knowledge of customer journey mapping and product performance measurement.


• Experience supporting portfolio-level planning and product governance.


• Understanding of change management and organisational transformation initiatives.


• Experience working with cloud-based integration architectures.


• Educated to degree level or equivalent professional experience.


• Responsible Artificial Intelligence usage.

What We Will Offer You

Recognised and rewarded for a job well done, we have a range of flexible benefits for you to choose from- so you can pick a package that’s perfect for you. We also offer flexible working options, global career opportunities across the wider Allianz Group, and fantastic career development and training. That’s on top of enjoying all the benefits you’d expect from the world’s number one insurance brand, including:

• Flexible buy/sell holiday options


• Hybrid working


• Annual performance related bonus


• Contributory pension scheme


• Development days


• A discount up to 50% on a range of insurance products including car, home and pet


• Retail discounts


• Volunteering days

Our Ways of Working

Do you need flexibility with the hours you work? Let us know as part of your application and if it’s right for our customers, our business and for you, then we’ll do everything we can to make it happen. Here at Allianz, we are signatories of the ABIs flexible working charter. We believe in supporting hybrid work patterns, which balance the needs of our customers, with your personal circumstances and our business requirements. Our aim with this is to help innovation, creativity, and you to thrive - Your work life balance is important to us.

Inclusive Support & Accessibility

At Allianz, we are committed to fostering building an inclusive, accessible workplace where everyone can thrive. As a Disability Confident employer, we welcome applications from disabled and neurodivergent candidates and offer tailored adjustments throughout the recruitment process and in the workplace, whether that’s assistive technology, ergonomic equipment, flexible working arrangements, mentoring or coaching. We want to encourage candidates to speak with us about any adjustments they may need. We’re here to support you.

If you have a disability or long‑term health condition and meet the essential criteria, you can choose to be considered through our Offer an Interview Scheme.

Contact our Resourcing team to opt into this scheme or for assistance with your application, including larger text, hard copies, or spoken applications. [e-mail]

For any inquiries or to submit your application, please contact: Conor McCourt

Closing date 2nd November 2026

We reserve the right to close the advert early if we reach enough applications.

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