At Barclays, we don't just adapt to the future we create it. Embark on a transformative journey as a WCR Technology Product Owner, where you'll play a pivotal role in shaping the future of wholesale credit risk (WCR) Tech team where product business analysts (BAs) coordinate, plan, and perform analysis tasks for specialist applications, managing internal domain analysis resources for program components. You'll ensure the right design is delivered by working with application owners to define business requirements and feeding these into development teams, ensuring solutions are designed with both short and long-term business objectives in mind, leveraging their knowledge to inform logical solutions. You'll have to engage with stakeholders at all levels, communicate clearly, and adapt to changing requirements. Additionally, you'll support the testing strategy, resolve defects, and assist in system training. You will play a crucial role in stakeholder management, building effective relationships and promoting collaborative communication. The team facilitates decision-making processes and supports transformation projects by incorporating stakeholder input.
To be successful as a WCR Technology Product Owner, you should have experience with:
- Experience in agile project delivery for Risk, especially Credit Risk in Investment or Corporate Banking.
- Credit Risk Experience Knowledge of counterparty grading, limit management, and credit reviews.
- Risk Metrics Understanding of Probability of Default, Loss Given Default, and Exposure at Default.
- SDLC Experience Proven experience in defining requirements, testing, and implementation.
- Project Delivery Delivered major projects from inception to implementation. Change Initiatives Worked on medium to large scale change initiatives.
- Agile Tools Familiar with Jira and Confluence.
- Technical Skills Experience with SQL queries and data models.
- Data Analysis Understanding data concepts and performing data analysis.
Some Of Highly Valued Skills May Include
- Any Postgraduate/MBA with experience working in Investment Banking institutions.
- Professional qualifications (e.g. CFA, FRM, CQF) would be added benefit, though not mandatory.
You may be assessed on the key critical skills relevant for success in role, such as risk and controls, change and transformation, business acumen strategic thinking and digital and technology, as well as job-specific technical skills
The location for this role is Pune, IN.
Purpose of the role
To support the organisation, achieve its strategic objectives by the identification of business requirements and solutions that address business problems and opportunities.
Accountabilities
- Identification and analysis of business problems and client requirements that require change within the organisation.
- Development of business requirements that will address business problems and opportunities.
- Collaboration with stakeholders to ensure that proposed solutions meet their needs and expectations.
- Support the creation of business cases that justify investment in proposed solutions.
- Conduct feasibility studies to determine the viability of proposed solutions.
- Support the creation of reports on project progress to ensure proposed solutions are delivered on time and within budget.
- Creation of operational design and process design to ensure that proposed solutions are delivered within the agreed scope.
- Support to change management activities, including development of a traceability matrix to ensure proposed solutions are successfully implemented and embedded in the organisation.
Vice President Expectations
- Advise key stakeholders, including functional leadership teams and senior management on functional and cross functional areas of impact and alignment.
- Manage and mitigate risks through assessment, in support of the control and governance agenda.
- Demonstrate leadership and accountability for managing risk and strengthening controls in relation to the work your team does.
- Demonstrate comprehensive understanding of the organisation functions to contribute to achieving the goals of the business.
- Collaborate with other areas of work, for business aligned support areas to keep up to speed with business activity and the business strategies.
- Create solutions based on sophisticated analytical thought comparing and selecting complex alternatives. In-depth analysis with interpretative thinking will be required to define problems and develop innovative solutions.
- Adopt and include the outcomes of extensive research in problem solving processes.
- Seek out, build and maintain trusting relationships and partnerships with internal and external stakeholders in order to accomplish key business objectives, using influencing and negotiating skills to achieve outcomes.
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.
