Cloud Infrastructure Product Owner

Cloud Infrastructure Product Owner

Location: Manchester

Hours: Full time

Working Pattern: At least 2 days per week in our Manchester office.

About this Opportunity

We're a Data Platform Engineering team, accountable to architect, build and extend cloud capabilities from Ingest to Insight for use across the Lloyds Banking Group (LBG)

You as a Technical Product owner, will be accountable to build and extend a foundational Cloud Platform; automate and scale data ingest and transformation workflows; automate user provisioning and drive developer productivity by delivering resilient CI/CD pipelines and bring in new cloud capability to support improvements in Data Governance, BI Self service, MLOps and introduction of GenAI and drive self-service across LBG.

The purpose of the Product Owner is to take the overall ownership for a single product backlog which typically contains 2-3 feature teams or technology component teams.

You'll typically be a Lab or Team Lead (containing 2-3 Feature or Component teams), reporting into the Lab Product Owner.

Role Responsibilities

• Understand the Technology landscape to build and run a cloud platform to enable self service

• Envision cloud native products and services including User provisioning, Data Ingest, Data transformation, Governance and Analytics to serve the Bank with a resilient cloud platform.

• Engage Business Units and other Labs, Enterprise Architecture and Cloud Security to analyse user stories for customer journey improvements

• You'll define user stories at Lab or Team level to meet customer needs

• Shape Product Backlog and work with Engineering team to clarify questions on requirements and unblock them

• Prioritise, refines and manages Lab or Team Product backlog and contribute to Product vision and roadmap at Lab or Team level

• You'll be accountable for Product change governance and compliance of the solutions we deliver and readiness activities (e.g., training and comms, testing and readiness for implementation) for their respective features, journeys or technology components.

• Take responsibility for developing and delivering change management plans and achieving outcomes that support the organisation's overall strategy.

• You'll meet the needs of significant customers related to a range of products and services and/or manages a customer advisor team over a given area.

• Support development of Lab or Team OKRs and provides product performance and benefits realisation data

• You'll take responsibility to formally grow capabilities within a significant functional area of the business, while personally investing in the growth of own and others' capabilities elsewhere in the organisation through mentoring and other informal methods.

What you'll need

• Experience in delivering IAM, Data Pipelines and CI/CD Pipelines solutions

• Experience in delivering Data Management solutions for Cataloguing, Lineage and Data Quality

• Strong experience in working with Architects and Compliance teams

• Strong experience in creating and developing Product Backlog

• Experience in agile methodologies, SAFe, tooling and ceremonies.

• Experience in building cloud platforms in Banking/Financial Service Industry

• Knowledge of GCP

• Extensive experience in Product Management

• Strong Stakeholder Management

• Experience in delivering Automation and self-service

Desirable skills include

• Experience in Data Loss Prevention, Tokenisation, Automation of User Provisioning

• Experience in Migration to Cloud

• Strong understanding of Cloud Data Architecture and knowledge of Data Lakes, Data Mesh

About working for us

Our focus is to ensure that we're inclusive every day, building an organisation 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 organisations 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 performance-related bonus

*            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 for a career where you can have a positive impact as you learn, grow and thrive?

Apply today and find out more