Head of Product Ownership CoE & Digital Governance

What is the opportunity?

This is your chance to drive the digital transformation of a leading bank, setting the strategic direction and leading a new product ownership Centre of Excellence. You'll shape customer centric innovations, fast track ideas, and position the bank as a digital leader in the industry. If your passionate about pushing boundaries and making an impact, this role is for you!

In this role, you will:

• Support and lead all aspects of enterprise digital: monitor progress using achievements and goals and landmarks
• Lead the product ownership CoE:Establish and lead a product ownership CoE driving innovation through an incubator that fast tracks emerging technologies and partnerships
• Partner engagement and governance: engage with senior partners and implement a digital governance model, ensuring robust planning, agile practices and effective delivery across teams.
• Support the digital transformation: Collaborate with business customers, enterprise architects, and change teams to prioritises and track the impact of transformation initiatives
• Mentorship and culture building: create growth and cultural transformation by mentoring and guiding teams, ensuring continuous improvement in digital initiatives and agile practices.
• Helping the organisation to implement the tribe scale agile model.

What will make you stand out?

The successful candidate will have great experience in Digital, and Innovation with excellent consultation and presentation skills. A deep understanding of modern technology stacks, including cloud computing, microservices architecture, API driven architectures, data architectures and associated technology trends.

You will have excellent communication, influencing and teamwork skills, with a proven track record of working in multi-functional teams.

Experience with any of the following will also help you to stand out;

- Knowledge of the financial services industry and regulatory environment in which it operates.

Essential Qualifications

There are no specific qualifications or minimum educational requirements needed for this role.

More about the team

The Digital and Enterprise Architecture team is passionate about modernising and simplifying the technology of Bank of Ireland to enable the best experiences for customer and colleagues.

The team is hardworking, knowledgeable, with skills in IT Strategy, Architecture, IT Consulting, and deep technology understanding. These skills are used to build IT and Digital Strategies, Roadmaps, and Architectures to that drive the transformation of the Banks technology.

This is a hybrid role and the base location can be discussed further.

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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 25 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!

Flexible working matching promise

We know how important flexible working arrangements are to our colleagues, and we promise to try to match your current flexible working arrangement in this new role (all existing working arrangements considered!)

At the heart of our purpose is our commitment to Inclusion & Diversity:

Bank of Ireland Group is an equal opportunities employer and is committed to fostering an inclusive workplace which values and benefits from the diversity of our workforce, this is supported by the development of our Employee Support Networks.

We offer reasonable accommodation at every stage of the application and interview process. If you require assistance, please contact recruitdirect@boi.com.

Key Competencies

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

Any information provided will be treated as confidential within the recruitment team and used only for the purpose of determining and providing appropriate accommodations for the application and recruitment process.