Charles River Product Owner

1203 Barclays Global Serv. Cent; Pune District; On-site; INR 1,800,000 - 2,400,000; Full time

Job summary

Barclays Pune is seeking a Charles River Product Owner to drive the strategy and execution for investment technology projects. You will define backlog, write user stories, and collaborate with stakeholders to deliver business value, with a focus on CRIMS and integrated investment workflows.

Based in Pune, you will work with cross-functional teams and mentor analysts, leveraging Agile practices to optimize performance, governance, and delivery of the product roadmap.

Qualifications

• Proven experience as a BA/PO in wealth/investments tech.
• Hands-on experience with CRIMS platform.
• Strong knowledge of portfolio and order management.
• Experience across front-to-back investment processes.
• Experience defining backlogs, user stories, acceptance criteria.
• Experience with Agile delivery and backlog management.
• Advanced SQL and data analysis skills.

Responsibilities

• Lead backlog refinement and ensure business value.
• Collaborate with stakeholders to define product goals.
• Drive execution of product roadmap for Charles River projects.

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 us as a Charles River Product Owner at Barclays

Join us as a Charles River Product Owner at Barclays, responsible for supporting the successful delivery of Location Strategy projects to plan, budget, agreed quality and governance standards. You'll spearhead the evolution of our digital landscape, driving innovation and excellence. You will harness cutting-edge technology to revolutionize our digital offerings, ensuring unparalleled customer experiences.

To be successful Charles River Product Owner you should have experience with:

• Proven experience as a Business Analyst, Product Owner within Wealth Management, Private Banking or Investments Technology.
• Hands-on experience with the Charles River Investment Management Solution (CRIMS) platform is mandatory.
• Strong understanding of portfolio management, order management, trading workflows, compliance monitoring, and investment operations.
• Experience working across front-to-back investment processes and operating models.
• Demonstrated experience defining product backlogs, user stories, acceptance criteria, and business requirements.
• Experience supporting or leading Charles River implementations, upgrades, SaaS migrations, or platform enhancements.
• Strong stakeholder management skills with the ability to engage business, operations, technology, architecture, and vendor teams.
• Experience with Agile delivery methodologies, including backlog management, sprint planning, and business acceptance testing.
• Ability to analyze complex business processes and translate them into scalable technology solutions.
• Lead, coach, and mentor a team of Business Analysts and Product Analysts, fostering a culture of continuous learning and professional development.
• Advanced SQL and data analysis skills.
• 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.

This role is based in Pune.

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