Data Product Manager

Join us as a Data Product Manager at Barclays, where you'll play a key role in transforming our data foundations as part of the BUK Data Foundations Program. Supporting Retail Banking the Business Banking domain, you'll oversee feature teams building cloud‑based data products and delivering reporting solutions that enable us to move away from legacy data systems like BIW. While you won’t be directly involved in technical delivery, you'll be instrumental in leading and motivating cross‑functional teams, managing priorities and backlogs, allocating resources, and ensuring that stakeholder needs are translated into high‑value outcomes.

This is a unique opportunity to help reset our data landscape and drive real change across the bank.

To be successful in this role, you will need the following:

• Strong understanding of data concepts.
• Product management experience, including workflow organisation.
• Effective stakeholder engagement and communication.
• Proactive, driven, and motivational leadership.
• Ability to manage backlogs and prioritise work across teams.

Some other highly valued skills may include:

• Agile delivery experience.
• Familiarity with Jira.
• Understanding of the Business Banking domain – Retail Banking.

You may be assessed on the key critical skills relevant for success in the role, such as risk and controls, change and transformation, business acumen, strategic thinking, digital and technology, as well as job‑specific technical skills.

The successful candidate can either be based in Northampton or Knutsford.

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.

• To advise and influence decision making, contribute to policy development and take responsibility for operational effectiveness. Collaborate closely with other functions/business divisions.
• Lead a team performing complex tasks, using well developed professional knowledge and skills to deliver on work that impacts the whole business function. Set objectives and coach employees in pursuit of those objectives, appraisal of performance relative to objectives and determination of reward outcomes.
• 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 lead collaborative assignments and guide team members through structured assignments, identify the need for the inclusion of other areas of specialisation to complete assignments. They will identify new directions for assignments and/or projects, identifying a combination of cross‑functional methodologies or practices to meet required outcomes.
• Consult on complex issues; providing advice to People Leaders to support the resolution of escalated issues.
• Identify ways to mitigate risk and developing new policies/procedures in support of the…