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Technical Product Owner - VP

Pune, India

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Date live: 08/25/2026

Business Area: Corporate Digital Banking

Area of Expertise: Product Development & Management

Contract: Permanent

Reference Code: JR-0000123036

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Barclays Product Development & Management

In a role in Product Development & Management, you'll oversee our entire product lifecycle. Your responsibilities include gathering and prioritising product and customer requirements, defining product vision, and ensuring successful delivery and ongoing performance.

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Join our team as a Technical Product Owner - VP where you will design, develop and enhance high-quality software solutions that deliver critical business, platform and technology capabilities for our customers and colleagues. The ideal candidate will be experienced in working within a collaborative, fast-paced environment, applying modern engineering practices to build scalable, secure and reliable applications, while partnering with cross-functional teams to drive innovation and deliver business value.

To be successful as a Technical Product Owner - VP you must have the following essential skills:

  • Own the vision, roadmap, and backlog for the data intelligence platform, including data ingestion and integration. Ensure data quality and correctness so the platform can support AI and ML use cases and generate meaningful insights.

  • Translate ambiguous financial and operational requirements (settlement, clearing, ledger-to-source reconciliation, intercompany breaks) into clear, prioritized engineering work.

  • Lead and coordinate multiple data engineering teams, setting sequencing, defining acceptance criteria, and removing blockers so teams ship predictably.

  • Partner with Operations, Production Services, Product, and subject matter experts in the payments domain to understand reconciliation rules, control requirements, and audit needs, and turn them into product capabilities.

  • Define and track the metrics that matter: match rates, break aging, time-to-resolution, data freshness, and pipeline reliability.

  • Make the hard calls on data quality, lineage, and reconciliation logic — deciding what gets automated, what stays manual, and where to invest in tooling.

  • Drive a culture of high engineering and product standards: clear specs, testable outcomes, strong observability, and no silent data drift.

    Some other highly valued skills may include:

    • Proven experience as a Product Owner / Product Manager for data-heavy or platform products, ideally in fintech, banking, payments, or capital markets.

    • Strong grasp of reconciliation concepts — matching logic, breaks/exceptions, settlement and ledger data, and the controls that surround them.

    • Comfortable leading data engineering teams and conversant in pipelines, data modelling, batch versus streaming architectures, and exactly-once or idempotent processing trade-offs.

    • Skilled at writing crisp requirements and acceptance criteria, and at saying no to keep the roadmap coherent.

    • Excellent stakeholder management across technical and non-technical, business-critical audiences.

    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.

    This role is located in Pune.

    Purpose of the role

    The purpose of a Product Owner is to maximize the value of the product by defining a clear product vision (are they setting the vision or would this align to), managing authoring, refining and prioritizing the Product Backlog balancing trade-offs across desirability, viability and feasibility – making sure the right thing is being ‘built’, and prioritising work based on business goals. They act as the primary liaison between stakeholders and delivery teams, ensuring the product meets user/customer needs and delivers optimal value. Product Owners are responsible for developing a roadmap and driving execution of their product area/sub-journey, applying continuous improvement principles and techniques.

    Accountabilities

    • Ensure Product Alignment with Business Goals: Ensure that the product & its features are aligned with broader objectives, driving value and contributing to the organization’s overall strategy. Utilisation of market research, analysis of customer feedback and monitoring of industry trends to identify new products, features or enhancements.

    • Communicate Product Vision to Delivery Teams: Clearly articulate the product vision and goals to the delivery teams, ensuring they understand, align and are inspired to deliver the business value and purpose of each feature or user story.

    • Create and Refine User Stories: Write clear, concise user stories with detailed acceptance criteria, refining them as needed to ensure the development team has all the necessary information to implement features successfully. 

    • Agile Events: Participate in key Agile events such as sprint planning, daily stand-ups, sprint reviews, and retrospectives to keep the team aligned and focused on delivering the product backlog. 

    • Managing the Product Backlog: Responsible for creating, maintaining, and prioritising the product backlog, ensuring the highest value features are delivered first, based on business needs, customer requirements and organisational impacts, balancing risk migration and future proofing against the product strategy. 

    • Act as the Voice of the Customer: Continuously gather feedback from customers and end-users to understand their pain points and ensure that the product meets their needs and improves their overall experience. 

    • Acceptance Criteria Definition & Management: Review and accept or reject work completed by the development team during sprints, ensuring that all delivered features meet the agreed-upon acceptance criteria and deliver business value. 

    • Collaborate with Stakeholders:  Work closely with stakeholders (e.g., customers, business leaders, and marketing teams) to gather requirements, define product goals, and ensure that the product vision aligns with business objectives. 

    • Monitor Product Performance and Iterate: Regularly assess product performance using KPIs and customer feedback, adjusting the product backlog and roadmap to improve functionality and meet evolving customer needs. Manage on-going readiness and 'run' activities of live products including monitoring, governance and approvals. 

    • Risk and Control:  Managing risk, including identification of potential risks, development of strategies to resolve or mitigate and escalate as necessary those risks, and alignment between the product management and control functions.

    Vice President Expectations

    • To contribute or set strategy, drive requirements and make recommendations for change. Plan resources, budgets, and policies; manage and maintain policies/ processes; deliver continuous improvements and escalate breaches of policies/procedures..

    • If managing a team, they define jobs and responsibilities, planning for the department’s future needs and operations, counselling employees on performance and contributing to employee pay decisions/changes. They may also lead a number of specialists to influence the operations of a department, in alignment with strategic as well as tactical priorities, while balancing short and long term goals and ensuring that budgets and schedules meet corporate requirements..

    • If the position has leadership responsibilities, People 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..

    • OR for an individual contributor, they will be a subject matter expert within own discipline and will guide technical direction. They will lead collaborative, multi-year assignments and guide team members through structured assignments, identify the need for the inclusion of other areas of specialisation to complete assignments. They will train, guide and coach less experienced specialists and provide information affecting long term profits, organisational risks and strategic decisions..

    • 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.

    Barclays welcomes applications from all candidates and is committed to ensuring reasonable adjustments (accommodations) are put in place to allow for a fair and inclusive recruitment process. For more information and how to request one, please review Adjustments to the recruitment process.

    We’re a global, vital and highly respected financial organisation with an inspiring Purpose. Operating in 39 countries and employing around 100,000 people across the world, we help communities, individuals and businesses thrive. And we’ve created financial solutions and technology that the world now takes for granted. A career with us can offer incredible variety, depth and breadth of experience, and the chance to learn from some of the best minds in technology and finance.

    To find out more about Barclays' strategy please click here.

    We are an equal opportunity employer and opposed to discrimination on any grounds. It is the policy of Barclays to ensure equal employment opportunity without discrimination or harassment on the basis of race, colour, creed, religion, national origin, alienage or citizenship status, age, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, marital or domestic/civil partnership status, disability, veteran status, genetic information, or any other basis protected by law.

    Barclays is required by law to confirm that you have the Legal Right to Work in any role that you apply for. If you currently hold a work visa sponsored by Barclays, or you would require sponsorship from Barclays, you must declare this as part of your application. Sponsored visas are role and entity specific and any changes must be reviewed. It is important that you ensure you are working on the correct visa at all times. Failure to accurately disclose your visa status or Legal Right to Work may result in your application or any employment offer being withdrawn at any time.

    This role may be subject to enhanced governance arrangements. If successful, you may be required to comply with additional regulatory and compliance obligations, such as disclosure of personal trading activities and external interest/affiliations.

    Further information on these requirements will be provided at a later stage of the process.

    This is Barclays Pune

    Barclays Pune is the largest campus outside of Barclays’ global headquarters in London. Our aim is to build game-changing technology that supports businesses and functions across the globe, offering the highest quality service to our clients and customers.

    It’s a state-of-the-art technology hub, and home to 9,000 colleagues across Operations, Technology and Functions.

    Pune Campus provides opportunities for our colleagues to innovate, collaborate, and deliver great outcomes for customers and clients.

    Our welcoming and inclusive culture supports you to bring your whole self to work, explore your potential and pursue your passions.

    Pune is a million-square-foot environment-friendly, ultra-modern workplace with excellent facilities for work, socialising and leisure.

    This is Barclays Pune

    Barclays Pune is the largest campus outside of Barclays’ global headquarters in London. Our aim is to build game-changing technology that supports businesses and functions across the globe, offering the highest quality service to our clients and customers.

    An innovative hub

    It’s a state-of-the-art technology hub, and home to 9,000 colleagues across Operations, Technology and Functions.

    Working better together

    Pune Campus provides opportunities for our colleagues to innovate, collaborate, and deliver great outcomes for customers and clients.

    A place where you can belong

    Our welcoming and inclusive culture supports you to bring your whole self to work, explore your potential and pursue your passions.

    An amazing place to work

    Pune is a million-square-foot environment-friendly, ultra-modern workplace with excellent facilities for work, socialising and leisure.

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    Be you. Be valued. Belong.

    We celebrate the unique perspectives and experiences each individual brings, believing our differences make us stronger and drive success.

    You can learn more about our commitment to our colleague on our Inclusion and Opportunities page.

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    Working flexibly

    We’re committed to providing a supportive and inclusive culture and environment for you to work in. This environment recognises and supports your personal needs, alongside the professional needs of our business. If you'd like to explore flexible working arrangements, please discuss this with the hiring manager. Your request will be reviewed in-line with the requirements of the role/business needs of the team.

    Hybrid working

    We have a structured approach to hybrid working, where colleagues work at an onsite location on fixed, ‘anchor’, days, as set by the business area. Please discuss the working pattern requirements for the role you are applying for with the hiring manager. Please note that working arrangements may be subject to change on reasonable notice to ensure we meet the needs of our business.

    Barclays is built on an international scale.

    Our geographic reach, our wide variety of functions, businesses, roles and locations reflect the rich diversity of our worldwide customer base. All of which means we offer incredible variety, depth and breadth of experience.
    And the chance to learn from a globally diverse mix of colleagues, including some of the very best minds in banking, finance, technology and business. Throughout, we’ll encourage you to embrace mobility, exploring every part of our operations as you build your career.

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