BUK TESCO Bank IN - Colleague Product Owner - VP

Overview

Product Owner at Barclays, a Vice President role that maximises product value by defining the product vision, managing and prioritising the product backlog, and acting as the primary liaison between stakeholders and delivery teams.

What you'll do

• Ensure the product and its features align with broader business objectives and the organisation's overall strategy.
• Use market research, customer feedback analysis and monitoring of industry trends to identify new products, features or enhancements.
• Communicate the product vision and goals to delivery teams so they understand, align with and are inspired by the business value of each feature or user story.
• Write clear, concise user stories with detailed acceptance criteria, refining them so the development team has the information needed to implement features.
• Participate in key Agile events such as sprint planning, daily stand-ups, sprint reviews and retrospectives.
• Create, maintain and prioritise the product backlog so the highest value features are delivered first, balancing business needs, customer requirements, organisational impact, risk and future proofing against product strategy.
• Act as the voice of the customer by continuously gathering feedback from customers and end-users on pain points and experience.
• Review and accept or reject work completed by the development team during sprints against agreed acceptance criteria.
• Work closely with stakeholders, including customers, business leaders and marketing teams, to gather requirements, define product goals and align the product vision with business objectives.
• Regularly assess product performance using KPIs and customer feedback, adjusting the backlog and roadmap to improve functionality.
• Manage ongoing readiness and 'run' activities of live products, including monitoring, governance and approvals.
• Identify potential risks, develop strategies to resolve or mitigate them, escalate as necessary, and align product management with control functions.
• Contribute to or set strategy, drive requirements and make recommendations for change.
• Plan resources, budgets and policies; manage and maintain policies and processes; deliver continuous improvements and escalate breaches of policies or procedures.
• Advise key stakeholders, including functional leadership and senior management, on functional and cross-functional areas of impact and alignment.
• Manage and mitigate risks through assessment in support of the control and governance agenda.

What you'll need

• 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 define and document API requirements (user stories, acceptance criteria, data models).
• Proven ability to define and document requirements, drafting user stories, acceptance criteria and data models.

Nice to have

• 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.

Details

• Location: Bengaluru, India (Maruthi Onyx, TESCO TSA).
• Assessed on key critical skills including risk and controls, change and transformation, business acumen, strategic thinking, and digital and technology, as well as job-specific technical skills.