Technical Product Owner

My client, a leading global banking organisation is seeking an experienced Technical Product Owner to join their Knutsford based office on a 12 month Fixed Term Contract.

You will be a Technical Product Owner with an agile mindset, guiding product owners in story writing with a particular focus on Open Banking, looking at software resilience of the bank. You will need to collaborate with the technology teams and other product owners to utilise their knowledge of the banks technology estate and deliver the product roadmap. A large part of this role will be to collaborate internally with stakeholders, and take their vision to support the development and implementation of the product strategy, ensuring continuous development, testing and improvement of the product quality.

Further to this you will be acting as the technical SME, in shaping and delivering the roadmap, driving API product strategy and managing the product backlog. This is a role for someone with proven experience in this space and ideally experience within the Open Banking space.

To be successful in this role you will need:

• Proven Technical Product Owner experience, ideally within the Financial Services industry
• Technical understanding of API technologies (REST / OpenAPI / Authentication)
• Highly skilled in backlog and lifecycle management
• API Product strategy and vision experience
• Agile / SAFe product development experience
• Excellent stakeholder management

This is an excellent opportunity to join at the beginning of a fresh tranche of deliverables, in a collaborative role with excellent visibility.