Technical Product Owner

3761 Barclays - BX - UK; Glasgow; On-site; GBP 55,000 - 75,000; Full time

Job summary

3761 Barclays - BX - UK seeks a Technical Product Owner to maximise product value by defining a clear vision and owning the backlog within the Business Data Platform. You will drive strategy, prioritise delivery, and partner with cross-functional teams to create trusted, high-quality data products that deliver real business value.

Based in Glasgow, you will work in a collaborative Agile environment, communicating the product vision, aligning with stakeholders, and guiding teams to deliver

Qualifications

• Experience in balancing product functionality with user experience.
• Knowledge of data analysis, data mapping or data architecture is a plus.
• Experience in product strategy, roadmap development and end-to-end delivery.

Responsibilities

• Ensure product alignment with business goals and strategy.
• Create and refine user stories with acceptance criteria.
• Manage and prioritise the product backlog to deliver high-value features.
• Collaborate with stakeholders to gather requirements and define product goals.
• Monitor product performance using KPIs and adjust backlog and roadmap accordingly.

Skills

Agile methodologies

Data analysis

Product management

Tools

Jira

Confluence

AWS

Job description

Job Description

Purpose of the role The purpose of a Product Owner is to maximize the value of the product by defining a clear product vision (are they setting the vision or would this align to ), managing authoring, refining and prioritizing the Product Backlog balancing trade-offs across desirability, viability and feasibility – making sure the right thing is being ‘built’, and prioritising work based on business goals. They act as the primary liaison between stakeholders and delivery teams, ensuring the product meets user/customer needs and delivers optimal value. Product Owners are responsible for developing a roadmap and driving execution of their product area/sub-journey, applying continuous improvement principles and techniques.

Accountabilities

• Ensure Product Alignment with Business Goals: Ensure that the product & its features are aligned with broader objectives, driving value and contributing to the organization’s overall strategy.
• Utilisation of market research, analysis of customer feedback and monitoring of industry trends to identify new products, features or enhancements.
• Communicate Product Vision to Delivery Teams: Clearly articulate the product vision and goals to the delivery teams, ensuring they understand, align and are inspired to deliver the business value and purpose of each feature or user story.
• Create and Refine User Stories: Write clear, concise user stories with detailed acceptance criteria, refining them as needed to ensure the development team has all the necessary information to implement features successfully.
• Agile Events: Participate in key Agile events such as sprint planning, daily stand-ups, sprint reviews, and retrospectives to keep the team aligned and focused on delivering the product backlog.
• Managing the Product Backlog: Responsible for creating, maintaining, and prioritising the product backlog, ensuring the highest value features are delivered first, based on business needs, customer requirements and organisational impacts, balancing risk migration and future proofing against the product strategy.
• Act as the Voice of the Customer: Continuously gather feedback from customers and end-users to understand their pain points and ensure that the product meets their needs and improves their overall experience.
• Acceptance Criteria Definition & Management: Review and accept or reject work completed by the development team during sprints, ensuring that all delivered features meet the agreed-upon acceptance criteria and deliver business value.
• Collaborate with Stakeholders: Work closely with stakeholders (e.g., customers, business leaders, and marketing teams) to gather requirements, define product goals, and ensure that the product vision aligns with business objectives.
• Monitor Product Performance and Iterate: Regularly assess product performance using KPIs and customer feedback, adjusting the product backlog and roadmap to improve functionality and meet evolving customer needs.
• Manage on-going readiness and 'run' activities of live products including monitoring, governance and approvals.
• Risk and Control: Managing risk, including identification of potential risks, development of strategies to resolve or mitigate and escalation as necessary those risks, and alignment between the product management and control functions.

Assistant Vice President Expectations

To advise and influence decision making, contribute to policy development and take responsibility for operational effectiveness. Collaborate closely with other functions/ business divisions. Lead a team performing complex tasks, using well developed professional knowledge and skills to deliver on work that impacts the whole business function. Set objectives and coach employees in pursuit of those objectives, appraisal of performance relative to objectives and determination of reward outcomes If the position has leadership responsibilities, People Leaders are expected to demonstrate a clear set of leadership behaviours to create an environment for colleagues to thrive and deliver to a consistently excellent standard. The four LEAD behaviours are: L – Listen and be authentic, E – Energise and inspire, A – Align across the enterprise, D – Develop others. OR for an individual contributor, they will lead collaborative assignments and guide team members through structured assignments, identify the need for the inclusion of other areas of specialisation to complete assignments. They will identify new directions for assignments and/ or projects, identifying a combination of cross functional methodologies or practices to meet required outcomes. Consult on complex issues; providing advice to People Leaders to support the resolution of escalated issues. Identify ways to mitigate risk and developing new policies/procedures in support of the control and governance agenda. Take ownership for managing risk and strengthening controls in relation to the work done. Perform work that is closely related to that of other areas, which requires understanding of how areas coordinate and contribute to the achievement of the objectives of the organisation sub-function. Collaborate with other areas of work, for business aligned support areas to keep up to speed with business activity and the business strategy. Engage in complex analysis of data from multiple sources of information, internal and external sources such as procedures and practises (in other areas, teams, companies, etc).to solve problems creatively and effectively. Communicate complex information. 'Complex' information could include sensitive information or information that is difficult to communicate because of its content or its audience. Influence or convince stakeholders to achieve outcomes. All colleagues will be expected to demonstrate the Barclays Values of Respect, Integrity, Service, Excellence and Stewardship – our moral compass, helping us do what we believe is right. They will also be expected to demonstrate the Barclays Mindset – to Empower, Challenge and Drive – the operating manual for how we behave.

Join Barclays as a Technical Product Owner within the Business Data Platform

Where you'll help shape the future of data-driven decision-making across Private Banking and Wealth Management. Working in a highly collaborative Agile environment, you'll drive product strategy, prioritise delivery, and partner with cross-functional teams to create trusted, high-quality data products that deliver real business value.

To be successful as a Technical Product Owner, you should have the following essential skills:

• Demonstrated ability to balance product functionality with user experience, ensuring solutions are both technically robust and user-centric.
• Ample data analysis knowledge, including data mapping, data architecture, and familiarity with backend data systems.
• Solid understanding and practical experience working within Agile methodologies.
• Experience in product management, including product strategy, roadmap development, and end-to-end delivery.
• Experience with collaboration and delivery tools such as Jira and Confluence with working knowledge of cloud platforms particularly AWS.

Some other highly valued skills may include:

• Experience in business analysis, including requirements gathering and process improvement.
• Background in financial services or exposure to regulated environments.
• Experience with MI/BI tools and data visualisation techniques.
• Technical background or previous experience working within technology teams.
• Understanding of data modelling concepts and best practice.

Assessment

You may be assessed on the key critical skills relevant for success in role, such as risk and controls, change and transformation, business acumen strategic thinking and digital and technology, as well as job-specific technical skills.

Location

This role will be based in our Glasgow office.

Work Experience

Our Work Experience is the combination of everything that's unique about us: our culture, our core values, our company meetings, our commitment to sustainability, our recognition programs, but most importantly, it's our people. Our employees are self-disciplined, hard working, curious, trustworthy, humble, and truthful. They make choices according to what is best for the team, they live for opportunities to collaborate and make a difference, and they make us the #1 Top Workplace in the area.