Senior Product Owner – Data Platforms & Analytics

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 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