Technical Product Owner - AVP

Barclays; Maharashtra; On-site; INR 1,500,000 - 2,500,000; Full time

Job summary

Barclays is seeking a Technical Product Owner – AVP to join their team in Pune, dedicated to delivering location strategy projects. This role will drive innovation in the digital landscape and enhance customer experiences.

The ideal candidate should demonstrate strong leadership, stakeholder engagement skills, and a capability to analyze complex problems into structured requirements. Familiarity with ATM and payment transactions is advantageous.

Qualifications

• Experience in translating business needs into detailed requirements.
• Strong analytical skills to engage in complex problem solving.
• Proficiency in stakeholder alignment across multi-functional teams.

Responsibilities

• Support product owners in the product development process.
• Utilize technical knowledge to enact product vision.
• Monitor product performance for continuous improvement.

Skills

Business analysis

Data analysis (Excel, SQL)

Stakeholder management

Leadership

Job description

Join us as a Technical Product Owner – AVP 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 revolutionise our digital offerings, ensuring unparalleled customer experiences.

To be successful as a Technical Product Owner – AVP you should have experience with the following responsibilities and skills.

Key Accountabilities

• Translate business needs into high-quality epics, features and user stories.
• Ensure clarity, traceability and auditability of requirements.
• Own end‑to‑end ATM / Self‑Service journey analysis.
• Maintain a delivery‑ready backlog with Product Owners.
• Collaborate with Engineering and Architecture for scalable solutions.
• Drive stakeholder alignment across business, technology, and operations.
• Support testing, release and production validation.
• Embed risk, resilience and customer impact considerations.

Domain Expertise

• ATM & Self‑Service journeys (withdrawal, deposit, assisted service).
• Device estate including SATM, DATM, ASC and OBP.
• Cash lifecycle: ordering, replenishment, reconciliation and logistics.
• Cards & payments including ATM and POS transaction flows.

Technical Skills

• Base24 transaction routing and authorization understanding.
• Stand‑in processing (STIP) and resilience behavior.
• Transaction limits, balance checks and fraud controls.
• End‑to‑end transaction lifecycle knowledge.
• Integration across device, switch and host systems.
• Strong data analysis capability (Excel, SQL).

Business Analysis Capability

• Translate complex problems into structured requirements.
• Produce process models and journey maps.
• Identify dependencies, risks and control points.
• Drive clarity in ambiguous problem spaces.
• Align outputs to Agile delivery standards.

Leadership & Stakeholder Management

• Engage across Product, Engineering, Operations and Vendors.
• Challenge constructively and shape better outcomes.
• Simplify complex technical concepts for business audiences.
• Influence without formal authority.
• Demonstrate strong ownership and accountability.

This role is based out of Pune.

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 meet the bank’s performance standards.
• Stay abreast of the latest industry technology trends and technologies, to evaluate and adopt new approaches to improve product development and delivery.

Assistant Vice President Expectations

• Advises and influences decision making, contributes to policy development and takes responsibility for operational effectiveness. Collaborates closely with other functions/business divisions.
• Leads a team performing complex tasks, using well‑developed professional knowledge and skills to deliver on work that impacts the whole business function. Sets objectives and coaches employees in pursuit of those objectives, appraises performance relative to objectives and determines reward outcomes.
• Demonstrates a clear set of leadership behaviours to create an environment for colleagues to thrive and deliver to a consistently excellent standard (L – Listen and be authentic, E – Energise and inspire, A – Align across the enterprise, D – Develop others).
• Or, as an individual contributor, leads collaborative assignments and guides team members through structured assignments, identifying the need for inclusion of other areas of specialisation to complete assignments. Identifies new directions for assignments/projects and employs a combination of cross‑functional methodologies or practices to meet required outcomes.
• Consults on complex issues; provides advice to People Leaders to support the resolution of escalated issues.
• Identifies ways to mitigate risk and develops new policies/procedures in support of the control and governance agenda.
• Takes ownership for managing risk and strengthening controls in relation to the work done.
• Performs work that is closely related to that of other areas, requiring an understanding of how areas coordinate and contribute to the achievement of the organisation’s objectives.
• Collaborates with other areas of work, for business‑aligned support areas to keep up to speed with business activity and the business strategy.
• Engages in complex analysis of data from multiple sources of information, internal and external sources such as procedures and practices (in other areas, teams, companies, etc.) to solve problems creatively and effectively.
• Communicates complex information, including sensitive or difficult to communicate content.
• Influences or convinces stakeholders to achieve outcomes.

Values & Mindset

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.