BUK TESCO Bank IN - Colleague Product Owner - VP
Barclays · Posted Oct 29
Banking, credit card, corporate, investment banking, and wealth management services
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About the role
This role sits within Barclays UK / Tesco Bank, where the team drives digital product innovation across retail and digital banking, payments and card processing. The Product Owner defines the product vision, owns and prioritises the product backlog, and acts as the primary liaison between stakeholders and Agile delivery teams, working with APIs, user stories and acceptance criteria. The role also covers monitoring and governance of live products, risk and control, and continuous improvement of the product roadmap.
What you will do
- 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 escalate as necessary those risks, and alignment between the product management and control functions.
Skills used in this role
What the employer is looking for
- 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
- 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)
- Proven ability to define and document requirements. Draft user stories, acceptance criteria, data models
Preferred qualifications
- 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
Benefits and support
- Compensation and benefits are detailed in the job posting
About Barclays
Barclays is a British multinational universal bank that provides consumer, corporate, and investment banking, as well as wealth management services. Tracing its origins back to 1690 in London, the institution operates globally to serve millions of retail and institutional clients. The bank leverages cutting-edge technology and digital platforms to drive operational efficiency across its international network.
- Industry
- Banking
- Company size
- 93000+ employees
- Founded
- 1690
- Location
- London, United Kingdom
- Funding stage
- Public Company
Leadership
Group Chief Executive
Group Finance Director
Group Chief Operating Officer
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