Senior Technical Product Owner for Container Security

Citi; London; Hybrid; GBP 100,000 - 125,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading global bank in London is seeking a Technical Product Owner to enhance the security of container technologies. The role involves collaborating with clients and stakeholders, championing Agile principles, and product strategy alignment. Ideal candidates will have extensive Agile experience, familiarity with Kubernetes, and a strong background in product management. Additional benefits include a hybrid work model and competitive salary.

Benefits

27 days annual leave

Discretional annual performance-related bonus

Private Medical Care

Life Insurance

Employee Assistance Program

Pension Plan

Paid Parental Leave

Special discounts for employees and family

Access to learning resources

Qualifications

• 10+ years of relevant industry work experience.
• 6+ years' Product Owner-centric work experience.
• Experience creating and prioritizing backlogs with teams and stakeholders.
• Deep understanding of Product Owner function and Agile concepts.
• Extensive knowledge of Agile Frameworks including Scrum and Kanban.

Responsibilities

• Champion Agile concepts with internal teams and clients.
• Ensure user stories are aligned to the roadmap.
• Facilitate creation and maintenance of backlogs.
• Lead co-creation of value-led product goals.

Skills

Interpersonal skills

Problem-solving skills

Communication skills

Agile concepts

Kubernetes

Container technologies

Education

Bachelor’s degree or equivalent experience

Tools

JIRA

Atlassian tools

Job description

Overview of Citi :

Citi, the world leading global bank, has approximately 200 million customer accounts and a presence in more than 160 countries and jurisdictions worldwide. Citi provides consumers, corporations, governments, and institutions with a broad range of financial products and services, including consumer banking and credit, corporate and investment banking, securities brokerage, transaction services, and wealth management. Citi enables clients to achieve their strategic financial objectives by providing them with cutting-edge ideas, best-in-class products and solutions, and unparalleled access to capital and liquidity.

The Team:

Cloud Technology Services (CTS) is responsible for looking after Citi’s Cloud programme across Public and Private Cloud. It has several new and exciting programmes utilising cutting edge cloud and container technologies, with a view to ensuring that our offerings are best in class and enable our wider business lines and clients alike.

The job:

This role sits within the Container Security team, which is responsible for ensuring, maintaining, and improving the security of our container technologies within the firm. You will be the Technical Product Owner for this capability, working to enable continuous improvement with our internal platforms, reduce friction for developers in their daily development lifecycle and bring new capabilities to market. You will be partnering with clients and stakeholders across business facing development teams, platform engineering teams, Operations and SRE.

What the role covers:

• Champion Agile concepts with internal teams and clients
• Ensure the correct user stories are always aligned to roadmap to stay ahead of project deadlines
• Facilitate the creation and maintenance of backlogs
• Lead the co-creation of value-led product goals and maintain continued alignment to completion
• Make product decisions, while setting and communicating realistic expectations with clients and stakeholders
• Effectively translate and communicate the business value of technical work to stakeholders
• Ensure compliance with internal policy and process across technical and non-technical areas
• Direct the development and delivery of secure solutions by coordinating with business and technical contacts
• Demonstrate professional consideration for the firm's reputation to safeguard Citigroup, its clients, and assets by driving compliance to applicable laws, regulations, and Citi Policy
• Apply sound ethical judgment regarding personal behavior, conduct and business practices, while escalating, managing and reporting control issues with transparency
• Be an enabler for the engineering team.

Job Skills/ Qualifications:

• Highly motivated self-starter with excellent interpersonal and problem-solving skills
• Bachelor’s degree or equivalent work experience
• Good oral and written communication skills
• 10+ years of relevant industry work experience
• 6+ years' Product Owner-centric work experience
• Experience creating and prioritizing backlogs with teams and stakeholders
• Experience visualizing product goals through roadmaps
• Knowledge of the full lifecycle of design, implementation and running of enterprise software
• solutions involving cross functional team collaboration
• Deep understanding of Product Owner function and Agile concepts
• Extensive knowledge of Agile Frameworks (Scrum/Kanban/FDD/XP, etc.)
• Experience and understanding of Kubernetes and Container technologies (e.g. Openshift, EKS, Docker, Helm charts)
• High level experience of modern design techniques including microservices and API first architectures.
• Experience working with or around JIRA and Atlassian tools is strongly preferred
• Security fundamentals experience with Container Platform and DevSecOps is a big plus

We offer:

By joining Citi London, you will not only be part of a business casual workplace with a hybrid working model (up to 2 days working at home per week), but also receive a competitive base salary (which is annually reviewed), and enjoy a whole host of additional benefits such as:

• 27 days annual leave (plus bank holidays)

• A discretional annual performance related bonus

• Private Medical Care & Life Insurance

• Employee Assistance Program

• Pension Plan

• Paid Parental Leave

• Special discounts for employees, family, and friends

• Access to an array of learning and development resources

Visit our Global Benefits page to learn more.

Alongside these benefits Citi is committed to ensuring our workplace is where everyone feels comfortable coming to work as their whole self, every day. We want the best talent around the world to be energized to join us, motivated to stay and empowered to thrive.

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Job Family Group:

Technology

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Job Family:

Information Security

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Time Type:

Full time

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Most Relevant Skills

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