Product Owner - Leeds, United Kingdom - Financial Conduct Authority

Financial Conduct Authority

Verified Company

Leeds, United Kingdom

1 week ago

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Tom O´Connor

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Description

Job title

Product Owner

The team/department

A new product team is being setup at the FCA in Leeds which will deliver products and product enhancements to our FCA colleagues using the new OmniStudio low code and integration platform of Salesforce.

This is part of a major commitment to ensure that the regulator of financial services is equipped with suitable tooling for its vital role.

Our users are excited at the prospect of rapid and high-quality delivery and populating this team with suitable capability and expertise is a priority.

What you will be doing- Delivering change and operational services for a product within the relevant product group.- Estimating resource, cost and time requirements to make changes to relevant products, feeding into project estimates and shaping and leading prioritisation for the relevant products across the portfolio in collaboration with key stakeholders within the product group, Technology and the FCA. Management of the Products budget, and recharging of actual work completed to sponsoring divisions and projects- Setting and tracking performance against Key Performance Indicators.

- Ensuring the Product team's compliance with relevant governance requirements

The skills and experience you will have

_or example, 'Experience of employment law' is measurable for looking at someone's CV but 'Knowledge of HR practices' is not.

Minimum- Experience in leading the delivery for a complex product or range of products, across the spectrum of IT change and run capabilities.- Experience in service management, incident and problem management to a diverse business- Experience in estimating resource, cost and time requirements to deliver change and run activities across a suite of products- Experience of having responsibility for feature/story prioritisation within backlogs and dealing with conflicting stakeholder prioritisation pressures.

Essential- Experience in capacity, availability and release planning to deliver change- Technical knowledge and exposure to relevant technical architecture, environments, platforms, software industry and business practices

Desirable Knowledge of and exposure to agile practices

What you will get from the role- Opportunity to set the direction of a Product and Delivery Squad - working with FCA Users and Delivery Squad Members to shape, prioritise and guide the delivery, release and implementation of products and enhancements.- The move to a low code platform is based upon the ambition to accelerate the product process and ensure that delivery is user focussed - the Product Owner will be at the heart of this from road mapping to prototyping to planning to delivery at scale.- Opportunity to make a difference - ensuring that the team activities are user-centric and delivering for a regulator of one of the UK's most important industries.

- Opportunity to genuinely own products gaining an insight into both Regulation and Financial Services- The salary range in Edinburgh & Leeds is up to £75,000 per annum plus a competitive benefits package, including a non-contributory pension

Our competitive Flexible Benefits Scheme gives you the opportunity to create a personalised benefits package, tailored to suit your lifestyle.

You can use this allowance to purchase additional benefits such as dental or cycle to work or you have the option top up your base salary by taking this as cash.

Additional information on the core benefits you will receive can be found

here

About the FCA

The FCA regulates the conduct of 50,000 firms in the UK to ensure our financial markets are honest, fair and competitive.

We do this to make sure markets work well for individuals, businesses and the economy as a whole. For more information on what we do, our three-year strategy can be found

here.

The FCA's Values & Diversity

Our ambition is to create a diverse and inclusive workplace that reflects the society we serve, helping us to be a better regulator

Flexible working

Multilocation & hybrid working

Useful information- Applications for this role close on at midnight on 27th February 2023 The interview process for this opportunity will involve a competency-based interview and technical case study.

For additional guidance and support on the FCA's interview process, please visit our careers site- here.