Senior Product Owner

Allianz Popular SL.; Datchet; Hybrid; GBP 60,000 - 81,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Flexible holidays

Hybrid working

Annual bonus

Pension scheme

Discounts on insurance products

Volunteering days

Job summary

Allianz is seeking a Senior Product Owner to provide strategic ownership for integration-focused agile teams within our Pet Ecosystem. You will define the vision, manage backlogs, and collaborate across Business, Architecture, Change and Engineering to deliver customer-centred technology solutions.

The role is based in Datchet with a hybrid pattern (40% office). Circa £70,000 per year, with a broader total rewards package reflecting experience and location.

Qualifications

• Senior Product Owner/PO with a technology focus and experience delivering for multiple stakeholders.
• Strong Agile knowledge including Scrum and Kanban.
• 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.

Responsibilities

• Define and communicate the vision, strategy and roadmap for integration products and capabilities.
• Own and prioritise multiple backlogs ensuring alignment with objectives and customer needs.
• Collaborate with Business, Architecture, Change and Engineering to align priorities.
• Lead quarterly planning with agile teams and support estimation, planning and forecasting.
• Promote agile product development and incremental value delivery.
• Act as the voice of the customer and business to meet KPIs.
• Manage dependencies across teams and programmes to deliver initiatives.
• Facilitate backlog refinement, user story development and release planning.
• Provide timely product direction and approve completed work.
• Identify and resolve risks and blockers.
• Coach and mentor other Product Owners and grow agile practices.
• Create opportunities to engage with customer feedback throughout development.

Skills

Senior Product Owner/PO experience

Agile delivery (Scrum & Kanban)

Integration technologies

APIs & microservices

Customer-focused, data-driven

Roadmaps & backlogs leadership

Stakeholder engagement

Clear communication

Risk-based decision making

Cross-functional collaboration

Coaching product teams

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, escalated 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'll be 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.

Closing date

2nd November 2026

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

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