Join Barclays as a Product Owner Network Edge, where you will define and drive the strategy, delivery, and optimisation of edge network services that enable secure, high‑performance connectivity between users, branches, partners, and cloud environments.
The role requires deep product ownership experience combined with strong understanding of edge networking domains such as external connectivity, internet gateways, partner integration and site connectivity, enabling effective decision‑making across performance, security and scalability considerations.
Candidates are not required to be engineers but must demonstrate sufficient technical credibility to lead discussions, define priorities and make informed trade‑offs. The role is based in London, Canary Wharf.
Required Experience
- Product Ownership & Value Management – Proven ability to own a product end‑to‑end, define and articulate product vision and roadmap, and prioritise delivery to maximise business value while balancing desirability, viability and feasibility.
- Stakeholder Leadership & Influence – Strong ability to engage, influence and align senior stakeholders, delivery teams and control functions.
- Agile Delivery & Backlog Management – Extensive experience managing and prioritising complex product backlogs in Agile environments, translating business outcomes into clear user stories with robust acceptance criteria.
Highly Valued Skills
- Risk, Control & Governance Awareness – Experience operating within regulated environments, with an understanding of risk identification, controls, governance and escalation mechanisms within product delivery.
- Data‑Driven Decision Making – Ability to use KPIs, customer insight and performance data to assess outcomes, inform prioritisation decisions and drive continuous improvement.
- People Leadership or Senior SME Capability – Experience either leading and developing teams at VP level, or acting as a senior subject matter expert guiding cross‑functional initiatives with strategic impact.
Purpose
The purpose of a Product Owner is to maximise the value of the product by defining a clear product vision, managing and refining the product backlog, balancing trade‑offs, ensuring the right thing is 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.
Accountabilities
- Ensure Product Alignment with Business Goals – Align product features with broader objectives, driving value and contributing to the organization’s overall strategy.
- Communicate Product Vision to Delivery Teams – Clearly articulate the product vision and goals to the delivery teams.
- Create and Refine User Stories – Write clear, concise user stories with detailed acceptance criteria, refining them as needed.
- Agile Events – Participate in key Agile events such as sprint planning, daily stand‑ups, sprint reviews, and retrospectives.
- Managing the Product Backlog – Create, maintain, and prioritise the product backlog.
- Act as the Voice of the Customer – Continuously gather feedback from customers and end‑users.
- Acceptance Criteria Definition & Management – Review and accept or reject work completed during sprints.
- Collaborate with Stakeholders – Work closely with stakeholders to gather requirements and define product goals.
- Monitor Product Performance and Iterate – Regularly assess product performance using KPIs and customer feedback.
- Risk and Control – Manage risk, including identification, development of strategies to mitigate and escalation.
Vice President Expectations
- Contribute or set strategy, drive requirements and make recommendations for change.
- Plan resources, budgets, and policies; manage and maintain policies/processes; deliver continuous improvements and escalate breaches of policies/procedures.
- Demonstrate clear leadership behaviours to create an environment for colleagues to thrive.
- Act as a subject matter expert within own discipline and guide technical direction.
- Advise key stakeholders on functional and cross‑functional areas of impact and alignment.
- Manage and mitigate risks through assessment, in support of the control and governance agenda.
- Collaborate with other areas of work to support business aligned activities.
- Create solutions based on sophisticated analytical thought comparing and selecting complex alternatives.
- Adopt and include the outcomes of extensive research in problem solving processes.
- Build and maintain trusting relationships and partnerships with internal and external stakeholders.
All colleagues will be expected to demonstrate the Barclays Values of Respect, Integrity, Service, Excellence and Stewardship. They will also be expected to demonstrate the Barclays Mindset – to Empower, Challenge and Drive – the operating manual for how we behave.
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