Private Cloud Product Owner

JOB TITLE: Private Cloud Product Owner

SALARY: £90,440 - £106,400 in London, or £76,194 - £89,640 outside of London   

LOCATION(S): London, Leeds or Manchester  

HOURS: Full time  

WORKING PATTERN: Our work style is hybrid, which involves spending at least two days per week, or 40% of our time, at our locations noted above. 

About this Opportunity

We are modernising with cloud, a platform that is quick, secure and resilient for customers and easy, modern and green for developers. 

We're looking for Product Owners to join our Private Cloud Platform.  You’ll have a unique opportunity to be part of an ambitious team with the purpose of driving our tech modernisation agenda and enable us to become the biggest Fintech in the UK. 

You will be responsible for the ownership of our product backlogs which contains features, journeys or technology components. You would report into the Lab Lead and work collaboratively with the Engineering Lead and Engineers. 

You’ll lead all aspects of the release of incremental value within an overall product, with the primary aim of delivering value to our customers and collaborators by ensuring the team focuses on the right priorities. 

Responsible for: 

• Development of objectives and key results and provides product performance and benefits realisation data 

• Crafting Product vision and strategy 

• Prioritising, refining and managing our Product backlog 

• Definition of user-stories to meet customer needs 

• Working closely with our Customer Journey Managers to analyse user stories for customer journey improvements 

• Product change governance (e.g., CMIA / SPFIA) and Business Readiness activities (e.g., training and comms, testing and readiness for implementation) for their respective features, journeys or technology components 

• Playing a role in developing capabilities within their functional area and investing in personal and team growth through mentoring and other informal methods 

• Closely collaborating with Integrators on the delivery of change 

• Delivery against a product budget, performing financial and data analysis 

Product Delivery  

• Leads improvements on product development process and delivery using new methodology, techniques, tools, etc. 

• Shapes the direction for cross-functional teams to deliver products using innovative delivery methods. 

• Leads the definition, development, and/or delivery of a significant product or service of the organisation's development/engineering programme. 

• Ensures alignment with customer requirements, and/or leads a medium-size product development/specialist team. 

Customer Centricity  

• Promotes value of customer outcomes with team and peers, and ensures work efforts achieve these. 

• Anticipates customer’s needs and uses customer input and steer to present targeted, coordinated, and outcome-focused solutions and opportunities. 

Product Ownership  

• Takes ownership of a backlog supported by multiple teams. 

• Delivers simple and sophisticated technology changes to a product and is responsible for its success/failure. 

• Supervises work across the relevant teams and ensures the right tools and processes are implemented. 

• Uses experience to prioritise work and lead the backlog efficiently, and demonstrates a good level of domain knowledge. 

Why Lloyds Banking Group

We’re on an exciting journey to transform our Group and the way we’re shaping finance for good. We’re focusing on the future, investing in our technologies, workplaces, and colleagues to make our Group a great place for everyone. Including you.

What you’ll need 

You should have experience of: 

• Implementing the processes for a Product Catalogue for consumption by internal engineers 

• Interaction with both customers and Product teams of highly skilled engineers 

• Working with multiple 3rd Party Vendors, building effective, partnering relationships 

• Improving Developer Experience e.g. Streamlining and simplifying the Onboarding and time to being fully productive processes 

About working for us 

Our ambition is to be the leading UK business for diversity, equity and inclusion supporting our customers, colleagues and communities and we’re committed to creating an environment in which everyone can thrive, learn and develop.

We were one of the first major organisations to set goals on diversity in senior roles, create a menopause health package, and a dedicated Working with Cancer Initiative.

We offer reasonable workplace adjustments for colleagues with disabilities, including flexibility in office attendance, location and working patterns. And, as a Disability Confident Leader, we guarantee interviews for a fair and proportionate number of applicants who meet the minimum criteria for the role with a disability, long-term health or neurodivergent condition through the Disability Confident Scheme.

We provide reasonable adjustments throughout the recruitment process to reduce or remove barriers. Just let us know what you need.

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 

Want to do amazing work, that’s interesting and makes a difference to millions of people? Join our journey.