API Technical Product Owner

What is the opportunity?

We are looking for an experienced Product Owner, who would be working with our development squads, building solutions that help businesses realise their objectives. The ideal candidate should share a passion for product ownership - managing roadmaps, managing stakeholder expectations, prioritising features, ability to manage feature priority with the ability and capacity of squads. The candidate should possess excellent stakeholder management and communication skills, as they will working closely with various stakeholders with varied skillsets and different capabilities.

The Enterprise Integration teams have a good mix of cross functional people spread across different locations and interact with various stakeholders on a regular basis. You will work with the business streams in identifying, gathering requirements and decomposing requirements into a well-defined/refined backlog

In this Role, you will

Working with the leadership, business streams and with other product owners, you will contribute to the overall business vision, translating the vision into a clear API roadmap of prioritised items. You will also be communicating the vision/roadmap to the agile squads.

You will drive the epic/user story creation, providing adequate description, capturing clear acceptance criteria, calling out dependencies - ensuring a well-groomed product/sprint backlog is available for the engineering team.

• Enable a rapid and effective feedback loop between the engineering team and other stakeholders
• Be a stage gate - ensuring stories meet definition of ready and definition of done, accepting stories as complete, hold teams accountable for quality

• You will identify and mitigate risks throughout the development process.
• Champion Agile methodologies and continuous improvement within the tech product team
• Ensure the product adheres to technical, security, and regulatory standards.

Essential Skills & Experience

We are looking for candidates who have current experience working as a product owner (preferably in financial domain) with agile development squads. The candidate must possess excellent communication skills both verbal and written.

• Strong inter-personal, communication and negotiation skills, with good experience in setting and managing stakeholder expectations
• Experience of working with leadership teams and business stakeholders
• Be a strong motivator/guide to the engineering squad

What will make you stand out?

• Product owner/product management certifications
• Knowledge of API or experience of working on API

Essential Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Business, or a related field
• Prior experience in Finance/Banking

More about the team

At Bank of Ireland, our IT Engineering and Delivery team are accountable for the delivery of IT Change Solution across the business.

We are a growing an exciting unit called Enterprise Integration that owns API and integration technology development across a number of strategic integration platforms, products and banking domains. We have fully embraced Agile ways of working such as Scrum, DevOps and CI/CD in a highly collaborative team environment

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Why work with us?

The Bank of Ireland company culture prioritises work-life balance with an opportunity for flexible working, along with 23 days annual leave and excellent pension contributions. Family can mean different things to different people; we offer 6 months paid maternity leave, an innovative fertility and surrogacy policy and working parent supports.

Your wellbeing is important to us; we have an employee assistance program, WebDoctor and financial wellbeing coaches available. We also encourage and support staff to pursue educational and professional qualifications to grow and enhance your career!

Key Competencies

• Customer Focused - People Manager
• Accountable - People Manager
• Agile - People Manager
• One Group, one team - Leader
• Champion Transformation - Leader

Where Agency assistance is required Bank of Ireland Recruitment Team will engage directly with suppliers. Unsolicited CVs / profiles supplied to Bank of Ireland by Recruitment Agencies will not be accepted for this role.

We're on a continuous journey to build an inclusive and diverse workplace. We welcome applications from people of all backgrounds, lived experience, abilities and perspectives. We provide reasonable accommodations at every stage of our recruitment process for disabilities, neurodivergence or medical conditions. If you require an accommodation please complete this form and one of our recruitment team members will be in touch via email.

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