BUK TESCO Bank IN- Platforms-API Technical Product Owner - VP

Barclays; Bengaluru; On-site; INR 6,000,000 - 12,000,000; Full time

Job summary

Barclays in Bengaluru, India, seeks a VP-level API Platforms Technical Product Owner to drive API strategy and platform evolution across the bank's digital offerings. You will translate business needs into APIs, collaborate with engineering and architecture, and ensure secure, scalable delivery.

Based in Bengaluru, this role requires strong SDLC, Agile and DevOps practices, plus experience with OpenAPI specs, Swagger, API governance, and cross‑functional leadership to deliver innovative

Qualifications

• Translate API specs into user stories and data models.
• Collaborate with engineering, architecture and third parties.
• Experience in Retail and Digital Banking, Payments.
• Knowledge of KYC/AML compliance and regulatory requirements.

Responsibilities

• Collaborate with product owners to define API requirements and acceptance criteria.
• Develop and implement product strategy and roadmap with stakeholders.
• Lead assessments to ensure quality and performance of APIs.
• Monitor product performance and drive cross-functional initiatives.

Skills

API strategy

SDLC & Agile leadership

Stakeholder management

Platform/API design

OpenAPI/Swagger

Regulatory & KYC knowledge

Tools

Jira

Confluence

AWS

DevOps

Job description

Join us as a “BUK TESCO Bank IN- Platforms-API Technical Product Owner - VP” at Barclays, where you'll spearhead the evolution of our digital landscape, driving innovation and excellence. You'll harness cutting-edge technology to revolutionise our digital offerings, ensuring unapparelled customer experiences.

To be successful as a BUK TESCO Bank IN- Platforms-API Technical Product Owner - VP, you should have experience with:

• Strong understanding of SDLC, Agile, Scrum, and DevOps practices.
• Understanding of software engineering concepts and system architecture
• Experience with Agile tools such as Jira, AWS, DevOps, or Confluence
• Understand API Integration
• Proven experience in Process Mapping, Gap Analysis, Stakeholder Management, Retail and Digital Banking, Payments and Card Processing
• Good understanding of KYC / AML Compliance, Core Banking Systems, Financial Products and Services and Risk and Regulatory Requirements
• Proven ability to read and translate Open API/Swagger Specs and UCRs to defi ne and document API requirements (user stories, acceptance criteria, data models)
• Experience delivering API/integration change across the full lifecycle, working with engineering, architecture, and 3rd parties.

Some Other Highly Valued Skills May Include

• Strong analytical and problem-solving abilities
• Excellent communication and presentation skills
• Ability to work with both technical and non-technical stakeholders
• Strong facilitation and negotiation skills
• Attention to detail and ability to manage multiple priorities

This role will be based in our Bengaluru, India office.

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.

Vice President Expectations

• To contribute or set strategy, drive requirements and make recommendations for change. Plan resources, budgets, and policies; manage and maintain policies/ processes; deliver continuous improvements and elevate breaches of policies/procedures..
• If managing a team, they define jobs and responsibilities, planning for the department’s future needs and operations, counselling employees on performance and contributing to employee pay decisions/changes. They may also lead a number of specialists to influence the operations of a department, in alignment with strategic as well as tactical priorities, while balancing short and long term goals and ensuring that budgets and schedules meet corporate requirements..
• 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 be a subject matter expert within own discipline and will guide technical direction. They will lead collaborative, multi-year assignments and guide team members through structured assignments, identify the need for the inclusion of other areas of specialisation to complete assignments. They will train, guide and coach less experienced specialists and provide information affecting long term profits, organisational risks and strategic decisions..
• Advise key stakeholders, including functional leadership teams and senior management on functional and cross functional areas of impact and alignment.
• Manage and mitigate risks through assessment, in support of the control and governance agenda.
• Demonstrate leadership and accountability for managing risk and strengthening controls in relation to the work your team does.
• Demonstrate comprehensive understanding of the organisation functions to contribute to achieving the goals of the business.
• Collaborate with other areas of work, for business aligned support areas to keep up to speed with business activity and the business strategies.
• Create solutions based on sophisticated analytical thought comparing and selecting complex alternatives. In-depth analysis with interpretative thinking will be required to define problems and develop innovative solutions.
• Adopt and include the outcomes of extensive research in problem solving processes.
• Seek out, build and maintain trusting relationships and partnerships with internal and external stakeholders in order to accomplish key business objectives, using influencing and negotiating skills 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.