Senior Product Owner

Adecco; Halifax; On-site; GBP 60,000 - 90,000; Full time

Job summary

Adecco Pontoon is seeking a Senior Product Owner to lead a multidisciplinary Agile team, shaping priorities and the roadmap for data-driven initiatives. You will balance strategic objectives with business demand, own the backlog, and drive measurable outcomes for revenue and efficiency.

You will engage with senior stakeholders across Homes and Platform leadership, ensuring alignment between business goals and product delivery while maintaining service reliability and clear prioritisation

Qualifications

• Proven Product Owner experience leading multidisciplinary Agile teams.
• Strong background delivering data products, data platforms, or data transformation initiatives.
• Experience owning product strategy, backlog prioritisation, roadmap, and business outcomes.
• Ability to identify, quantify, and deliver measurable value (revenue, cost reduction, risk mitigation, operational efficiency).
• Strong stakeholder management with experience influencing senior leadership.
• Knowledge of data governance, data quality, lineage, reporting, and live service ownership.
• Experience managing products through the full lifecycle, including BAU support and service improvement.
• Comfortable balancing new features, technical debt, defects, regulatory requirements, and production issues.

Responsibilities

• Define and drive product direction, strategy, and roadmap.
• Own and prioritise the product backlog based on value, risk, effort, and business impact.
• Lead a cross-functional feature team delivering data-driven solutions.
• Ensure data products, services, and reporting remain reliable and fit for purpose.
• Track benefit realisation and ensure delivered solutions achieve measurable outcomes.
• Manage competing stakeholder demands and make clear prioritisation decisions.
• Financial Services, Banking, Lending, or Mortgage experience.
• Cloud Data Platform experience (Azure, AWS, GCP).
• Experience within regulated environments.
• Experience with legacy-to-modern data platform migrations.

Skills

Product Owner

Agile

Data products

Roadmap planning

Stakeholder management

Data governance

Tools

Azure

AWS

GCP

Job description

Adecco Pontoon is an employment consultancy. We put expertise, energy, and enthusiasm into improving everyone’s chance of being part of the workplace. We respect and appreciate people of all ethnicities, generations, religious beliefs, sexual orientations, gender identities, and more. We do this by showcasing their talents, skills, and unique experience in an inclusive environment that helps them thrive.

Job title: Senior Product Owner

Contract: 6 months with possible extension.

About the role

As the Product Owner, you'll lead a multidisciplinary feature team and be accountable for setting priorities and shaping the roadmap. You'll balance strategic objectives with ongoing business demand, enhancements, operational needs, and opportunities to increase revenue, reduce costs, mitigate risk, improve customer and colleague experiences, and simplify legacy processes.

You'll take ownership of both the problem and the solution, making informed trade-offs, providing clear direction to the team, and ensuring focus on the highest-value outcomes. You'll work closely with data and insights to validate that products are reliable, practical, and genuinely meet business needs, while also ensuring existing services and reporting continue to operate effectively.

A key part of the role will be engaging with senior stakeholders, including Homes and Platform leadership teams, communicating priorities, influencing decisions, and ensuring alignment between business goals and product delivery.

Key Requirements

• Proven Product Owner experience leading multidisciplinary Agile teams.
• Strong background delivering data products, data platforms, or complex data transformation initiatives.
• Experience owning product strategy, backlog prioritisation, roadmap, and business outcomes.
• Ability to identify, quantify, and deliver measurable value (revenue, cost reduction, risk mitigation, operational efficiency).
• Strong stakeholder management with experience influencing senior leadership.
• Knowledge of data governance, data quality, lineage, reporting, and live service ownership.
• Experience managing products through the full lifecycle, including BAU support and service improvement.
• Comfortable balancing new features, technical debt, defects, regulatory requirements, and production issues.

Key Responsibilities

• Define and drive product direction, strategy, and roadmap.
• Own and prioritise the product backlog based on value, risk, effort, and business impact.
• Lead a cross-functional feature team delivering data-driven solutions.
• Ensure data products, services, and reporting remain reliable and fit for purpose.
• Track benefit realisation and ensure delivered solutions achieve measurable outcomes.
• Manage competing stakeholder demands and make clear prioritisation decisions.
• Financial Services, Banking, Lending, or Mortgage experience.
• Cloud Data Platform experience (Azure, AWS, GCP).
• Experience within regulated environments.
• Experience with legacy-to-modern data platform migrations.

We use generative AI tools to support our candidate screening process. This helps us ensure a fair, consistent, and efficient experience for all applicants. Rest assured, all final decisions are made by our hiring team, and your application will be reviewed with care and attention.