Product Owner - Data Systems

Summary

Join Pepperstone's technology team as a Product Owner - Data Systems and contribute to the development and delivery of data solutions. You will be responsible for translating product vision into prioritized roadmaps, managing backlogs, facilitating agile ceremonies, and ensuring high-quality delivery. Collaborate with stakeholders across various teams to define requirements, manage risks, and improve ways of working. The role requires experience in agile methodologies, data-centric environments, and data-related projects. Pepperstone offers a collaborative culture, flexible working options, personal development opportunities, and competitive benefits.

Requirements

• Previous experience in a similar role, e.g. Scrum Product Owner, SAFe Product Owner, Senior Business Analyst, Delivery Lead
• Experience in a data-centric development environment working closely with data & AI engineers, data analysts, data scientists, software engineers, data governance and integration specialists, or previous experience in one or more of those roles
• Experience working in an agile environment (preferably, scaled agile – SAFe, Nexus, LeSS, or other framework)
• Previous experience working on projects involving one or more data-disciplines from: data warehousing, BI, analytics, data science, AI, application development, CRM uplift, data migration, data platform uplift, MarTech, application integration, real-time data processing and analytics, or the introduction of data governance tools

Responsibilities

• Using Agile methodology values, principles, and practices to plan, manage, and deliver solutions
• Define and own the delivery roadmap for the technical solutions
• Articulate value delivered by the team (in terms of commercial value, risk reduction, quality etc.)
• Drive roadmap planning for the team, deciding which initiatives and ideas can be prioritised for the upcoming sprints based on business priority, tech strategy, and team capacity
• Identify dependencies, blockers and risks to delivery and manage them accordingly
• Update the roadmap based on actual delivery process through sprints, and collaborate with stakeholders when the roadmap needs to be adjusted
• Define all types of requirements (functional, non-functional, transition) for technology solutions
• Manage a backlog of stories and tasks in the priority order of the roadmap, define acceptance criteria
• Ensure that requirements are discussed and understood by the team
• Facilitate key agile ceremonies; present expected solution scope, monitor progress and roadblocks, manage quality of solutions, and improve ways of working
• Plan sprints with input from the delivery teams
• Perform first level acceptance testing before approving a piece of work for User Acceptance with the stakeholders
• Plan and facilitate the release process, manage stakeholder communications & corresponding change management
• Keep the team responsible for quality of work products
• Run regular retrospectives and focus on continuous improvement of both the products and the ways of working
• Identify and manage delivery risks and dependencies according to the company’s processes
• Track the team’s velocity and engagement metrics
• Provide relevant reporting on the status of delivery and follow the governance structure
• Plan and organise demos, facilitate collection and processing of feedback
• Contribute to the delivery practice via knowledge sharing and working on practice improvement initiatives
• The Product Owner will collaborate with the Enterprise Data Leadership Team when working on a technical roadmap and discussing the solutions scope/estimates
• The Product Owner will work closely with the General Manager, Enterprise Data who owns the vision and strategy for our Data & Analytics platform, services and products, as well as other stakeholders from the Technology and business teams (finance, operations, customer support etc.) to agree on requirements and priorities
• The Product Owner will be collaborating with other Product Owners and Business analysts to work on cross team dependencies and integrations

Preferred Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in a related field, such as computer science, engineering, or business
• Agile product ownership certification (CSPO or similar) or business analysis certification (CCBA/CBAP or similar) or project management certification (PMP or similar)
• Previous experience of programs delivering a major capability uplift would be beneficial
• Previous experience of data management on AWS including Redshift, Snowflake or Databricks, Kafka, RDS and Tableau would be beneficial
• Ideally previous exposure to financial services or other regulated environments
• Previous experience working with Atlassian product suite (Jira, Confluence, Service Desk, Advanced Roadmaps)

Benefits

• Competitive salary structure including company bonus scheme
• Genuinely collaborative and friendly culture
• Flexible and hybrid working
• Remote working option - work from anywhere for up to 6 weeks per year, in addition to hybrid working as standard
• Ongoing personal development & learning opportunities
• 15 weeks paid primary carers parental leave & 4 weeks paid secondary carers leave
• 3 paid volunteering days per year & Workplace Giving Program