Technical Product Owner

Barclays

15h

About The Position

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. The corporate tech team is undergoing a transformation toward an engineering-focused model. We are emphasising the adoption of test automation, CI/CD pipelines, GitLab, and AI-assisted development (Co-pilot). This role sits at the corporate level to drive adoption and meet targets on the transformation scorecard. The Technical Product Owner will centralize efforts across CIOs to replace fragmented, local pockets of adoption. They will be responsible for removing adoption roadblocks, such as Duo license shortages, by engaging with enterprise teams and acting as the face of the organization. The transformation for this role is divided into two key aspects: engineering automation and people-focused change. The assigned person will allocate 50% of their time to engineering automation, focusing on driving the adoption of engineering automation tools such as GitLab, Copilot, CI/CD, and test automation. They will work closely with CIOs, Lucy, Brent, and enterprise teams to remove roadblocks and coordinate efforts. The remaining 50% of their time will be dedicated to people-focused transformation. A strong understanding of technology operating models and agile transformation. Experience in workforce planning, skills assessment, and organizational change. Familiarity with engineering practices such as CI/CD and test automation is essential. Excellent stakeholder management and communication skills are a must, as well as the ability to drive strategic initiatives and deliver measurable outcomes. Our Work Experience is the combination of everything that's unique about us: our culture, our core values, our company meetings, our commitment to sustainability, our recognition programs, but most importantly, it's our people. Our employees are self-disciplined, hard working, curious, trustworthy, humble, and truthful. They make choices according to what is best for the team, they live for opportunities to collaborate and make a difference, and they make us the #1 Top Workplace in the area.

Requirements

A strong understanding of technology operating models and agile transformation.
Experience in workforce planning, skills assessment, and organizational change.
Familiarity with engineering practices such as CI/CD and test automation is essential.
Excellent stakeholder management and communication skills are a must, as well as the ability to drive strategic initiatives and deliver measurable outcomes.

Responsibilities

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.

Benefits

Barclays employees are eligible for a suite of a competitive and generous employee benefits, including medical, dental and vision coverage, 401(k), life insurance, and other paid leave for qualifying circumstances.
This position is eligible for an incentive award

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