Product Owner - Digitally Safe and Secure Lab

End date
Tuesday 30 April 2024

Salary range
£73,262 - £86,190

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Agile Working Options
Hybrid Working

Job description

JOB TITLE: Product Owner - Digitally Safe and Secure Lab

LOCATION: Edinburgh, Bristol or Leeds

HOURS: Full time

WORKING PATTERN: Hybrid, 40% (or two days) in an office site

About this opportunity

Insurance, Pensions and Investments (IP&I) has a vision to improve the support we provide to our customers throughout their financial lives; empowering them to make the right decisions on their long-term saving, investment, and retirement needs. We're doing this by providing clear, straightforward customer journeys, supported by flexible and resilient product platforms and services.

Through the ongoing development, modernisation and simplification of the shared products and services that sit at the centre of the IP&I business, the Foundations Platform plays a key role in the realisation of this vision.

Within this Platform, the Digitally Safe and Secure Lab is committed to protecting the assets of the business and our customers. By using the latest Group technologies, we aim to proactively safeguard identities and help prevent fraud and financial crime, fostering trust and security in all our interactions. Protecting our customers is at the heart of everything we do.

Reporting into the Lab Product Owner, we're looking for an outstanding Team Product Owner to help drive forward the vision and roadmap for our products and services, which will support the needs of all our business areas, helping unlock and accelerate business benefits.

Here's where you'll make a difference

• Building effective relationships with internal and external customers and teams that the lab depends on, and who depend upon us; engaging with senior leaders to understand long-term strategic challenges.
• Meeting the needs and requirements of collaborators related to a product set and services aligned to the Bank’s strategy.
• Staying up to date with industry practices and product and making recommendations on relevant POCs or new product features.
• Defining the product roadmap, including Jira initiatives, epics, stories, and owning the Jira backlog.
• Working with teams of engineers in the UK and India, clarifying the product vision, acceptance criteria, and priorities.
• Reporting on delivery progress, highlighting risks and issues in a timely manner, and recommending approaches for resolution.
• Collaborating with other Lab colleagues on identifying and implementing the appropriate governance steps as well as supporting interlocking across partner teams.
• Working closely with the Business Agility Lead to continuously improve the productivity of your team.

What you’ll need

• A strong collaboration focus, enabling the Lab to work with our partners to build secure end to end journeys and services. Collaboration needs to be a key part of your DNA.
• Strategic problem-solving skills, when defining a product vision and direction in the delivery of a complete product experience from initiation to implementation and support.
• Expertise in product ownership and management, utilising agile techniques to deliver value to the customer as efficiently and effectively as possible.
• The ability to lead and develop a team, aligning them toward common goals with conviction, compassion, and tact.
• The ability to communicate, translate and present critical information to multi-skilled people and teams at different levels in the organisation, understanding their differing needs.
• The drive to develop a deep understanding of your customers, products, and the technologies used to support them; able to apply this knowledge to form meaningful strategies.
• Experience of finances, risks, and dependencies, so that you can effectively manage your product and contribute to effective governance of the Lab.
• In addition, knowledge and experience of identity, access management, fraud, and financial crime prevention solutions would be beneficial.

About working for us

Our focus is to ensure we're inclusive every day, building an organization that reflects modern society and celebrates diversity in all its forms.

We want our people to feel that they belong and can be their best, regardless of background, identity, or culture.

We were one of the first major organizations to set goals on diversity in senior roles, create a menopause health package, and a dedicated Working with Cancer initiative.

And it’s why we especially welcome applications from under-represented groups.

We’re disability confident. So, if you’d like reasonable adjustments to be made to our recruitment processes, just let us know.

We also offer a wide-ranging benefits package, which includes:

• A generous pension contribution of up to 15%
• An annual bonus award, subject to Group performance
• Share schemes including free shares
• Benefits you can adapt to your lifestyle, such as discounted shopping
• 30 days’ holiday, with bank holidays on top
• A range of wellbeing initiatives and generous parental leave policies

Ready to start growing with purpose? Apply today.]]>