IB CDM Product Owner

Embark on a transformative career journey as Product Owner as part of Barclays Investment Bank Client & Data Management team, aligned to Chief Data & Analytics Office (CDAO).

In this role, you will own Organisation Party Central (OPC), a critical enterprise product supporting organisational data across Barclays. You will be responsible for defining and driving the product vision, strategy, and roadmap, ensuring alignment with business objectives, enterprise data priorities, and regulatory requirements. Acting as the primary point of accountability for product outcomes, you will manage and prioritise the product backlog, balancing strategic, regulatory, and operational demands while making key decisions on product priorities, scope, and delivery trade-offs.

Working closely with Business Analysts, Data Architects, Technology Leads, Project Managers, Solution Designers, and Engineering teams, you will drive the successful delivery of strategic initiatives and maximise product value. You will collaborate with stakeholders across Business, Data, Technology, and Change functions to communicate product progress, value, risks, and dependencies, ensuring alignment across the organisation. In addition, you will maintain strong governance standards, ensure compliance with data management, risk, and regulatory requirements, and proactively manage risks, issues, and delivery dependencies to support successful outcomes and long term product performance.

What You'll Bring

You will bring strong product ownership, strategic thinking, and decision making capabilities, with the ability to navigate complex enterprise environments and align diverse stakeholder interests. You will excel at translating business and regulatory requirements into clear product priorities, driving delivery through collaboration, and ensuring that outcomes generate measurable value while maintaining robust governance, risk, and compliance standards.

To be successful as an IB CDM Product Owner, you should have:

• Significant experience as a Senior Product Owner or Lead Product Owner within complex, large-scale organisations.
• Proven track record of enterprise-scale product backlog ownership and prioritisation.
• Strong understanding of Agile methodologies and product delivery practices.
• Excellent stakeholder management, communication, and influencing skills, with the ability to engage senior leaders and governance forums.
• Demonstrated ability to balance strategic objectives, regulatory requirements, and operational priorities.

Other highly valued skills include:

• Experience with enterprise data platforms, master data, reference data, or party data domains.
• Financial services experience or experience working within a highly regulated environment.
• Familiarity with Barclays Product, Data, or Change frameworks.
• Understanding of enterprise data governance and data management principles.

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.

This role is based in Glasgow with a hybrid working model of working a minimum of 2 days per week in the office.

Purpose of the role

The purpose of a Product Owner is to maximise the value of the product by defining a clear product vision, managing authoring, refining and prioritising the Product Backlog balancing trade offs across desirability, viability and feasibility - making sure the right thing is being built, and prioritising work based on business goals. They act as the primary liaison between stakeholders and delivery teams, ensuring the product meets user/customer needs and delivers optimal value. Product Owners are responsible for developing a roadmap and driving execution of their product area/sub journey, applying continuous improvement principles and techniques.

Accountabilities

• Ensure Product Alignment with Business Goals: Ensure that the product & its features are aligned with broader objectives, driving value and contributing to the organization's overall strategy. Utilisation of market research, analysis of customer feedback and monitoring of industry trends to identify new products, features or enhancements.
• Communicate Product Vision to Delivery Teams: Clearly articulate the product vision and goals to the delivery teams, ensuring they understand, align and are inspired to deliver the business value and purpose of each feature or user story.
• Create and Refine User Stories: Write clear, concise user stories with detailed acceptance criteria, refining them as needed to ensure the development team has all the necessary information to implement features successfully.
• Agile Events: Participate in key Agile events such as sprint planning, daily stand ups, sprint reviews and retrospectives to keep the team aligned and focused on delivering the product backlog.
• Managing the Product Backlog: Responsible for creating, maintaining, and prioritising the product backlog, ensuring the highest value features are delivered first, based on business needs, customer requirements and organisational impacts, balancing risk migration and future proofing against the product strategy.
• Act as the Voice of the Customer: Continuously gather feedback from customers and end users to understand their pain points and ensure that the product meets their needs and improves their overall experience.
• Acceptance Criteria Definition & Management: Review and accept or reject work completed by the development team during sprints, ensuring that all delivered features meet the agreed upon acceptance criteria and deliver business value.
• Collaborate with Stakeholders: Work closely with stakeholders (e.g., customers, business leaders, and marketing teams) to gather requirements, define product goals, and ensure that the product vision aligns with business objectives.
• Monitor Product Performance and Iterate: Regularly assess product performance using KPIs and customer feedback, adjusting the product backlog and roadmap to improve functionality and meet evolving customer needs. Manage on going readiness and run activities of live products including monitoring, governance and approvals.
• Risk and Control: Managing risk, including identification of potential risks, development of strategies to resolve or mitigate and escalation as necessary those risks, and alignment between the product management and control functions.

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.