Principal Security Incident Response Specialist - London, United Kingdom - Vanquis Bank

Vanquis Bank

Verified Company

London, United Kingdom

2 weeks ago

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Tom O´Connor

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Description

Location:
Chatham/London/Bradford

Salary:

Closing Date:
Sunday 30 July 2023

About Us
Vanquis Banking Group has a rich history dating back to 1880.

The company was founded in Bradford by Joshua Kelley Waddilove as The Provident Clothing and Supply Company to help people access finance and goods who couldn't from traditional lenders.

Today, Vanquis Banking Group is a FTSE All Share company listed on the London Stock Exchange with around 1.6 million customers and plays the same role in people's lives today, as it did when it was founded.

Vanquis Banking Group is a unified group made up of two brands: Vanquis (cards and loans) and Moneybarn (vehicle finance).

While they offer different products and services, they share the common purpose and customer-centric values at the heart of our group.

We understand our customers are real people with varied life experiences, so everything we do from our products to our customer experience is designed with this in mind.

You and Your Team

Reporting into the Engineering Product Lead you will be responsible for leading a team of Engineering Product Owners across three delivery centres (London, Chatham, Bradford).

You will also be responsible for achieving customer value through improved features and capabilities delivered by the SCRUM delivery teams you are aligned to.

You will develop a thorough understanding of customer and colleagues' needs and have substantial technical and/or development experience, the combination of which will enable you to coach, motivate and lead the Engineering Product Owner capability within the bank and your SCRUM delivery team.

You will have significant stakeholder management experience across Technology and Change, business teams and senior leadership.

Hybrid working is available in this role. We ask that you attend the London office 1 day per week.

This role could be based in any of our four locations; Bradford, London, Petersfield or Chatham.

About the Role

In your day-to-day role, as a Principal Engineering Product Owner you will be responsible for a team of Engineering Product Owners as well as delivering multiple business initiatives by driving IT development teams and managing their Product Backlogs.

You will take day to day management responsibility including performance reviews, holiday planning, training requirements and Performance Improvement Plans (PIPs).
You will role model behaviours in communication, collaboration and the recognition and development of the team including regular performance and development conversations, intime feedback and coaching.
Work with the Digital Product Owner, Business SMEs and Technology & Change stakeholders to understand customer needs and product requirements.
Collaborate with Digital Product Owners, Project Managers and Delivery Centre Leads to define and align product roadmaps, delivery schedules and capabilities.
Lead up to 2 Development Teams to deliver against a shared Product Vision and Product Roadmap by actively driving the scrum ceremonies.
Work with the Scrum Master to ensure the IT Development Team delivers effectively and efficiently.
Provide External and Internal customer context to the Development Team and explore creative technical solutions.
Work with Business SMEs to ensure there is sufficient and effective input into Product Backlogs and Sprint Plans.
Prioritize and manage the Product Backlog and make informed decisions formed from a strong fact base.
Take a comprehensive approach to refine and prioritise the Product Backlog considering customer value and other engineering criteria (e.g. technical debt, nonfunctional requirements).
Ensure specifications artifacts (e.g. Wireframes, user journey, highlevel solution design, Product Backlog) are in place for smoothly triggering the Sprint of new business initiatives.

About You

What you will bring to the team:

Previous experience working as a line manager developing and coaching others
Good experience working on a Product Ownership capability
Significant experience translating large pieces of functionality (product roadmap items / features) into actionable and prioritized user stories.
Strong communication skills with the ability to influence and build effective working relationships across all levels of the organisation. Comfortable working with and presenting to senior management and ExCo.
Strong ability of prioritising work based on both business and engineering factors (e.g. technical debt, nonfunctional requirements)
Ability to identify both functional and technical dependencies with other teams
Excellent understanding of APIs, Microservices and SOA
Experience integrating products with 3rd party services
It would be desirable for you to have experience of working in Financial Services or Fintech
Other desirables include experience as a Business Analyst and /or experience working with Azure DevOps, JIRA or similar.
Previous experience working