Technical Product Owner - Network Portfolio & Service Design

Barclays; London; On-site; GBP 90,000 - 130,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading financial institution is seeking a senior leader to oversee product strategy and development within their network ecosystem. This pivotal role involves collaboration with cross-functional teams to drive product alignment and performance, ensuring high standards of operational excellence. The ideal candidate will possess extensive experience and a strong leadership presence, guiding teams to achieve strategic objectives while adhering to Barclays' core values.

Qualifications

• Extensive experience in product portfolio strategy development.
• Significant leadership experience in cross-functional teams.
• Expertise in managing network products and performance.

Responsibilities

• Collaborate with product owners and technical teams on product vision.
• Enhance product strategy and implement improvements.
• Monitor product performance for optimization opportunities.

Skills

Leadership

Agile Management

Strategic Financial Management

Collaboration

Performance Monitoring

Education

Bachelor's degree or higher

Job description

Person Specification / Essential Skills

• Extensive experience in developing network product portfolio strategies, ensuring cross-product alignment of services through effective service design and management to optimize network performance.
• Detailed understanding of linkages between network strategy options and commercial options with extensive experience in strategic commercial and financial management of the Network and Perimeter Ecosystem, delivering products that align with operational efficiency, central initiatives, and business outcomes.
• Extensive experience as a leader of teams managing business operations across the network ecosystem, including governance, operating models, processes, and financial management, to ensure effective operational performance and drive customer outcomes.

Desirable Skills

• Experience in supplier and vendor management across the network product ecosystem, driving strategic financial outcomes to support network transformation and seamless operations.
• Proven experience managing within agile environments, delivering results through adaptive and collaborative team efforts.
• Significant experience in leading cross-functional product delivery teams, ensuring alignment, execution, and delivery of complex network solutions.

Purpose of the role

To collaborate with product owners and other technical teams involved in the product development process and utilise their knowledge of the bank’s technologies to enact the vision defined in the product roadmap.

Accountabilities

• Provision of subject matter expertise to support the collaboration between the product owner and the technical side of product development.
• Support the development and implementation of the product strategy and vision defined in the product roadmap and communicate them with the relevant stakeholders and the development team.
• Collaboration with internal stakeholders to gather and prioritise product requirements and features based on business value and feasibility that are well defined, measurable and secure.
• Development and implementation of assessments to ensure continuous testing and improvement of product quality and performance.
• Monitoring of product performance to identify opportunities for optimisation that meets the banks performance standards.
• Stay abreast of the latest industry technology trends and technologies, to evaluate and adopt new approaches to improve product development and delivery.

Director Expectations

• To manage a business function, providing significant input to function wide strategic initiatives. Contribute to and influence policy and procedures for the function and plan, manage and consult on multiple complex and critical strategic projects, which may be business wide..
• They manage the direction of a large team or sub-function, leading other people managers and embedding a performance culture aligned to the values of the business. Or for an individual contributor, they lead organisation wide projects and act as deep technical expert and thought leader, identifying new ways of working and collaborating cross functionally. They will train, guide and coach less experienced specialists and provide information affecting long term profits, organisational risks and strategic decisions..
• Provide expert advice to senior functional management and committees to influence decisions made outside of own function, offering significant input to function wide strategic initiatives.
• Manage, coordinate and enable resourcing, budgeting and policy creation for a significant sub-function.
• Escalates breaches of policies / procedure appropriately.
• Foster and guide compliance, ensure regulations are observed that relevant processes in place to facilitate adherence.
• Focus on the external environment, regulators, or advocacy groups to both monitor and influence on behalf of Barclays, when appropriate.
• Demonstrate extensive knowledge of how the function integrates with the business division / Group to achieve the overall business objectives.
• Maintain broad and comprehensive knowledge of industry theories and practices within own discipline alongside up-to-date relevant sector / functional knowledge, and insight into external market developments / initiatives.
• Use interpretative thinking and advanced analytical skills to solve problems and design solutions in often complex/ sensitive situations.
• Exercise management authority to make significant decisions and certain strategic decisions or recommendations within own area.
• Negotiate with and influence stakeholders at a senior level both internally and externally.
• Act as principal contact point for key clients and counterparts in other functions/ businesses divisions.
• Mandated as a spokesperson for the function and business division.

All Senior 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.

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.