Lead Product Owner

Lead Product Owner role in the Data, Technology and Innovation division of the FCA, responsible for delivering change and operational services through development, maintenance, and operations partners on a complex product, with a focus on end-to-end ownership and stability.

Requirements

• Demonstrated experience heading teams of staff and external partners accountable for a complex product throughout the full lifecycle of IT change and operational delivery
• Extensive service management knowledge, including incident and problem management, across a diverse and complex business environment
• Solid planning and delivery capability, with significant experience estimating resource, cost, and time requirements, as well as executing capacity (resource and technology), availability and release planning to deliver and run product change effectively
• Experience of software application/infrastructure life-cycle management, and the activities involved in application/infrastructure development/change
• Knowledge of and exposure to agile development practices
• Commercially aware, with the ability to understand supplier proposals and promote cost-effective solutions
• Solid technical and architectural knowledge across relevant environments platforms software industry and business practices with the ability to solve complex problems make final decisions restore functionality and deliver effective outcomes
• Credible and steady leader with experience negotiating with executives and clearly communicating explicit and implicit enterprise trade-offs, building relationships across the organisation and coaching peers and specialist teams in product management methodologies
• Strategic yet pragmatic thinker who motivates and leads innovation internally and externally providing industry-relevant thought leadership while constructively challenging established approaches and focusing on the bigger picture

Benefits

• 28 days annual leave plus bank holidays
• Hybrid model where employees work a minimum of 40% in the office each month
• Non-contributory pension (8–12% depending on age) and life assurance at eight times your salary
• Private healthcare with Bupa, income protection, and 24/7 Employee Assistance
• 35 hours of paid volunteering annually
• A flexible benefits scheme designed around your lifestyle