VP - Product Owner

Purpose of the role

To design, develop and improve software, utilising various engineering methodologies, that provides business, platform, and technology capabilities for our customers and colleagues. 

Accountabilities

• Development and delivery of high-quality software solutions by using industry aligned programming languages, frameworks, and tools. Ensuring that code is scalable, maintainable, and optimized for performance.
• Cross-functional collaboration with product managers, designers, and other engineers to define software requirements, devise solution strategies, and ensure seamless integration and alignment with business objectives.
• Collaboration with peers, participate in code reviews, and promote a culture of code quality and knowledge sharing.
• Stay informed of industry technology trends and innovations and actively contribute to the organization’s technology communities to foster a culture of technical excellence and growth.
• Adherence to secure coding practices to mitigate vulnerabilities, protect sensitive data, and ensure secure software solutions.
• Implementation of effective unit testing practices to ensure proper code design, readability, and reliability.

Vice President Expectations

• To contribute or set strategy, drive requirements and make recommendations for change. Plan resources, budgets, and policies; manage and maintain policies/ processes; deliver continuous improvements and escalate breaches of policies/procedures..
• If managing a team, they define jobs and responsibilities, planning for the department’s future needs and operations, counselling employees on performance and contributing to employee pay decisions/changes. They may also lead a number of specialists to influence the operations of a department, in alignment with strategic as well as tactical priorities, while balancing short and long term goals and ensuring that budgets and schedules meet corporate requirements..
• If the position has leadership responsibilities, People Leaders are expected to demonstrate a clear set of leadership behaviours to create an environment for colleagues to thrive and deliver to a consistently excellent standard. The four LEAD behaviours are: L – Listen and be authentic, E – Energise and inspire, A – Align across the enterprise, D – Develop others..
• OR for an individual contributor, they will be a subject matter expert within own discipline and will guide technical direction. They will lead collaborative, multi-year assignments and guide team members through structured assignments, identify the need for the inclusion of other areas of specialisation to complete assignments. They will train, guide and coach less experienced specialists and provide information affecting long term profits, organisational risks and strategic decisions..
• Advise key stakeholders, including functional leadership teams 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.
• Demonstrate leadership and accountability for managing risk and strengthening controls in relation to the work your team does.
• Demonstrate comprehensive understanding of the organisation functions to contribute to achieving the goals of the business.
• Collaborate with other areas of work, for business aligned support areas to keep up to speed with business activity and the business strategies.
• Create solutions based on sophisticated analytical thought comparing and selecting complex alternatives. In-depth analysis with interpretative thinking will be required to define problems and develop innovative solutions.
• Adopt and include the outcomes of extensive research in problem solving processes.
• Seek out, build and maintain trusting relationships and partnerships with internal and external stakeholders in order to accomplish key business objectives, using influencing and negotiating skills to achieve outcomes.

All colleagues will be expected to demonstrate the Barclays Values of Respect, Integrity, Service, Excellence and Stewardship – our moral compass, helping us do what we believe is right. They will also be expected to demonstrate the Barclays Mindset – to Empower, Challenge and Drive – the operating manual for how we behave.

Join us as a VP - Product Owner at Barclays to lead strategic capabilities within Client Onboarding. The role will own product direction, roadmap and prioritisation, partnering across Business, Operations, Compliance, Legal, Architecture and Engineering to simplify and digitise the client onboarding journey. The successful candidate will combine strong product management and technology understanding with the ability to operate effectively in a complex, regulated environment and translate strategic objectives into measurable client and business outcomes.

To be successful as a VP - Product Owner you should have experience with:

• Strong experience owning complex digital or technology products, roadmaps and product backlogs.
• Understanding of institutional/corporate client onboarding, client lifecycle management or comparable regulated workflows.
• Proven ability to work across Business, Operations, Compliance, Legal, Architecture and Engineering.
• Ability to make evidence-based prioritisation decisions across strategic, regulatory, control and technical requirements.
• Strong understanding of modern digital platforms, APIs, workflow, data and integration patterns.
• Experience delivering technology within a regulated environment with strong consideration of controls, privacy and security.
• Ability to lead through influence across multidisciplinary and geographically distributed teams.
• Strong written and verbal communication, including presenting product strategy and investment decisions to senior stakeholders.

Some other highly valued skills may include:

• Experience within banking, payments, cash management, liquidity technology or another regulated technology environment.
• Good understanding of APIs, data, integration patterns and modern engineering practices.
• Experience with data analysis, process modelling and technology simplification to support current-to-future-state change.
• Experience working within Agile/product-led environments, demonstrating collaborative, outcome-focused and continuous-improvement behaviours

You may be assessed on the key critical skills relevant for success in role, such as risk and controls, change and transformation, business acumen strategic thinking and digital and technology, as well as job-specific technical skills.

The location of the role is Pune.