Product Owner - Data & Cloud

End Date
Sunday 31 March 2024
Salary Range
£101,932 - £119,920
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Hybrid Working
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Job Description
JOB TITLE: Product Owner - Data & Cloud Team
LOCATION: Edinburgh
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 platforms and services that sit at the heart of the Insurance Pensions and Investments business, the IP&I Foundations platform plays a key role in the realisation of this vision.
The Data & Cloud team work with Solution Architecture and Group Cloud Services to provide IP&I specific cloud expertise, blueprints and Service Reliability Engineering coaching to Platforms to enable their adoption of public and private cloud.
Here's where you'll make a difference:
In this role, you’ll be responsible for the overall ownership of a single, large, and complex product backlog which may contain many features, journeys, or technology components. This role aims to provide value to customers and collaborators by ensuring the teams focus on addressing the right issues. This involves fostering collaborative and empowered teams that take ownership of outcomes, encouraging innovation, and minimizing risk through data-driven testing and learning.

• Support the development of Platform or Lab OKRs and provides product performance and benefits realisation data.
  
• Input into business 4YOP, customer plan and tech roadmap as required
  
• Define and prioritises Platform epics, features and stories which support Product strategy
  
• Shape the overall Product Vision & own the Product roadmap
  
• Accountable for overseeing product change governance, business readiness activities (e.g., training and comms) and ensure change compliance of overall Product
  
• Build a capable leadership team while investing in workforce development
  
• A leader in the Platform with line management responsibilities for more junior Product Owners
  
• Lead a team that deliver quality improvements to the products that supports delivery of the platform OKRs
  
• Collaborate with the Integrator in the development of dependencies across labs and platforms
  

What you’ll need
Product Ownership - Take ownership for products or product elements, understand how they work and optimise them to better serve the needs of the client, colleague, or bank. Uses storytelling to articulate the product vision and has the ability to manage a backlog and prioritise items appropriately.
Stakeholder Management - Manage and resolve conflicts between stakeholders, and to ensure the right people involved or impacting their work have a joint understanding and expectation of the work, what is happening, the implications and crucially their role in making it successful.
Customer Centricity - Provide an exceptional customer experience, and to resolve customer problems effectively; using a customer first lens to understand and listen to them, supporting their banking needs in a multidisciplinary way.
Coaching & Feedback - Help others learn how to change future professional behaviours and ways of working, by listening and providing positive and motivating advice and guidance, as well as enabling them to reflect and learn from experience.
Agile Mindset - Work with an agile approach and within agile methodologies to drive pace and adaptability in the delivery of value.
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.
At Lloyds Banking Group, we're driven by a clear purpose; to help Britain prosper. Across the Group, our colleagues are focused on making a difference to customers, businesses and communities. With us you'll have a key role to play in shaping the financial services of the future, whilst the scale and reach of our Group means you'll have many opportunities to learn, grow and develop.
We keep your data safe. So, we'll only ever ask you to provide confidential or sensitive information once you have formally been invited along to an interview or accepted a verbal offer to join us which is when we run our background checks. We'll always explain what we need and why, with any request coming from a trusted Lloyds Banking Group person.
We're focused on creating a values-led culture and are committed to building a workforce which reflects the diversity of the customers and communities we serve. Together we’re building a truly inclusive workplace where all of our colleagues have the opportunity to make a real difference.