Technical Product Owner

Technical Product Owner
Surrey
Hybrid – 3 days pw onsite
£75,000 to £85,000

We currently have an exciting opportunity for a Technical Product Owner for a leading financial services company. The Product Owner will be responsible for the functional design, and development roadmap and live service for a new platform.

What you’ll be doing:

• Creation and prioritization of the product backlog
• Responsible for translating business requirements into technology capabilities by working with development teams, business experts and testing teams
• End-to-end ownership, quality control and performance of the products
• Strategic vision for the products, including the development roadmap
• Act as arbitrator between business stakeholders and development teams to match business priority to development capacity
• Financial and demand management for the product
• Stakeholder management across the business and third-party suppliers
• Acting as the technical consultant for new projects or platform features and be the intermediary between the business users and engineering teams


What you’ll bring:

• Significant experience as a Product Owner/Product Manager with proven experience of implementing new platforms/systems within the financial services industry
• Ability to lead and coach the product team including resourcing, line management, prioritisation and optimising ways of working
• Outstanding communication, presentation and leadership skills
• Ability to chair, own, and steer critical development meetings to achieve a satisfactory outcome
• Able to demonstrate awareness and understanding of the wider business, economic and market environment in which the firm operates
• Someone who demonstrates awareness and understanding of the regulatory requirements and expectations
• Have a high-level understanding of technical and operational product aspects that need to be considered for product decisions
• Ability to anticipate and create new perspectives and ideas that resolve problems and take advantage of opportunities in the mid term
• Demonstrate the ability to deliver effective governance, oversight and controls in the business and oversees changes when required
• Someone who can lead the development of a culture focused upon providing an excellent quality service to clients
• Experience gained within the motor finance/car leasing/consumer lending industry – highly desired
• Experience with software development lifecycle
• Experience with agile methodologies
• Experience and awareness in Java and AWS technologies would be beneficial, not essential.

In return the successful candidate will receive a salary of between £75,000 and £85,000 plus an extensive range of benefits which includes:
30 days holiday, a discretionary performance related bonus, car allowance, PMI and a generous pension contribution.

Candidates must hold a British, EU Passport or Indefinite Leave to Remain. Unfortunately sponsorship cannot be offered for this role.

Please apply now for more information

InterQuest Group is acting as an employment agency for this vacancy. InterQuest Group is an equal opportunities employer and we welcome applications from all suitably qualified persons regardless of age, disability, gender, religion/belief, race, marriage, civil partnership, pregnancy, maternity, sex or sexual orientation. Please make us aware if you require any reasonable adjustments throughout the recruitment process.