Hybrid Product Manager

at Workday

• Job title: Product Manager
• Job type: Full Time
• Experience level: Mid level, Senior
• Salary: Not specified
• Degree requirement: Bachelor's Degree
• Tech skills: Cloud, Kafka
• Location requirements: Hybrid, Knutsford, United Kingdom

About the role

• Product Manager at Barclays collaborating with product owners and technical teams on technology-driven products. This role involves strategizing, monitoring product performance, and ensuring quality and improvements.

Responsibilities

• To collaborate with product owners and other technical teams involved in the product development process and utilise their knowledge of the bank’s technologies to enact the vision defined in the product roadmap.
• Provision of subject matter expertise to support the collaboration between the product owner and the technical side of product development.
• Support the development and implementation of the product strategy and vision defined in the product roadmap and communicate them with the relevant stakeholders and the development team.
• Collaboration with internal stakeholders to gather and prioritise product requirements and features based on business value and feasibility that are well defined, measurable and secure.
• Development and implementation of assessments to ensure continuous testing and improvement of product quality and performance.
• Monitoring of product performance to identify opportunities for optimisation that meets the banks performance standards.
• Stay abreast of the latest industry technology trends and technologies, to evaluate and adopt new approaches to improve product development and delivery.

Requirements

• Experience as a Product Manager serving critical technology-driven products.
• Knowledge of Agile methodologies within a Product Development Lifecycle.
• Proven experience in Product Discovery, data and delivery methods.
• Ample communication skills – able to translate complex information across different levels of the business as well as proactively listen and gather data/ information from stakeholders and clients.
• Ample Product, Market and Industry Knowledge of Application Integration Technologies such as Real Time Messaging and Streaming (Kafka, IBM MQ, IBM ACE, Active MQ), File Transfer (IBM Connect Direct, IBM Sterlng B2B Integrator, Stonebranch Universal Data Mover), Extract Transform and Load (IBM StreamSets, Ab Initio).
• Competent understanding of modern infrastructure architecture (containerisation, virtualisation, public cloud) and Site Reliability Engineering practices inc IaaS, Metrics and Observability tools.
• Experience working in a finance, banking or a fintech company with an internal customer base.

Benefits

• Our Work Experience is the combination of everything that's unique about us: our culture, our core values, our company meetings, our commitment to sustainability, our recognition programs, but most importantly, it's our people.
• Our employees are self-disciplined, hard working, curious, trustworthy, humble, and truthful.
• They make choices according to what is best for the team, they live for opportunities to collaborate and make a difference, and they make us the #1 Top Workplace in the area.