Technology Product Owner Markets Sales Technology

**Job Description** =================== **Purpose of the role** To design, develop and improve software, utilising various engineering methodologies, that provides business, platform, and technology capabilities for our customers and colleagues.  **Accountabilities** * Development and delivery of high-quality software solutions by using industry aligned programming languages, frameworks, and tools. Ensuring that code is scalable, maintainable, and optimized for performance. * Cross-functional collaboration with product managers, designers, and other engineers to define software requirements, devise solution strategies, and ensure seamless integration and alignment with business objectives. * Collaboration with peers, participate in code reviews, and promote a culture of code quality and knowledge sharing. * Stay informed of industry technology trends and innovations and actively contribute to the organization’s technology communities to foster a culture of technical excellence and growth. * Adherence to secure coding practices to mitigate vulnerabilities, protect sensitive data, and ensure secure software solutions. * Implementation of effective unit testing practices to ensure proper code design, readability, and reliability. **Director Expectations** * Provide expert advice to senior functional management and committees to influence decisions made outside of own function, offering significant input to function wide strategic initiatives. * Manage, coordinate and enable resourcing, budgeting and policy creation for a significant sub-function. * Escalates breaches of policies / procedure appropriately. * Foster and guide compliance, ensure regulations are observed that relevant processes in place to facilitate adherence. * Focus on the external environment, regulators, or advocacy groups to both monitor and influence on behalf of Barclays, when appropriate. * Demonstrate extensive knowledge of how the function integrates with the business division / Group to achieve the overall business objectives. * Maintain broad and comprehensive knowledge of industry theories and practices within own discipline alongside up-to-date relevant sector / functional knowledge, and insight into external market developments / initiatives. * Use interpretative thinking and advanced analytical skills to solve problems and design solutions in often complex/ sensitive situations. * Exercise management authority to make significant decisions and certain strategic decisions or recommendations within own area. * Negotiate with and influence stakeholders at a senior level both internally and externally. * Act as principal contact point for key clients and counterparts in other functions/ businesses divisions. * Mandated as a spokesperson for the function and business division. All Senior Leaders are expected to demonstrate a clear set of leadership behaviours to create an environment for colleagues to thrive and deliver to a consistently excellent standard. The four LEAD behaviours are: L – Listen and be authentic, E – Energise and inspire, A – Align across the enterprise, D – Develop others. 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. Salary / Rate Minimum: $ 220,000 Salary / Rate Maximum: $ 300,000 The minimum and maximum salary/rate information above include only base salary or base hourly rate. It does not include any another type of compensation or benefits that may be available. **Key responsibilities** * Own the technology delivery roadmap for the Client Journey Optimization Program, aligning scope, milestones, and cadence to business outcomes. * Translate Client Onboarding objectives into a prioritised backlog of automation, orchestration, and workflow capabilities that reduce cycle time and improve straight-through processing. * Partner with Engineering and Architecture teams to shape the target solution: integration and data requirements, non-functional standards (security, resilience, performance, and controls), and orchestration/workflow & case management (including human-in-the-loop steps). * Drive senior alignment and decision-making across Markets, Operations, Compliance, Risk, Legal, and Technology to manage scope, dependencies, trade-offs, and governance, delivering KPI outcomes with proactive risk management. * Identify pragmatic analytics/ML opportunities (e.g., decision support, intelligent routing, and data/document extraction and validation) to reduce Client Onboarding cycle time and improve client and operational outcomes. **Essential candidate skills** * Demonstrated extensive knowledge of how technology delivery integrates with the business division / Group to achieve overall business objectives. * Demonstrated ability to use structured analysis to identify Client Onboarding pain points and design pragmatic process automation and workflow solutions in a regulated environment. * Demonstrated ability to make and justify prioritization decisions (scope, sequencing, and resourcing) while managing dependencies and balancing value, risk, and delivery constraints. * Demonstrated ability to align senior Business and Technology stakeholders on scope, delivery plans, and governance, and to drive measurable outcomes and adoption. **Desirable skills** * Experience with Client Onboarding processes and controls (e.g., KYC, documentation, approvals, and auditability). * Hands-on experience delivering workflow orchestration and process automation solutions across multiple systems. * Experience defining integration and data requirements (e.g., APIs, events, and data quality) in partnership with Engineering and Architecture teams. * Strong ability to define KPIs (e.g., cycle time and straight-through processing) and communicate progress and outcomes to senior stakeholders.