Technical Product Owner – Data

Location: Guernsey, Haywards Heath or Manchester

Salary: £63,000 to £90,000 - depending on experience

Department: Technology and Data

We’re First Central Insurance & Technology Group (First Central for short), an innovative, market-leading insurance company. We protect the things customers love so they can get on with what matters to them in life.

Data drives us. It fuels our outstanding distribution, finance, technology and legal services. Our underwriting skills are built on data expertise; it creates the insights we need to give the right cover to the right customers at the right price. But, it’s the people inside and outside our business that power us. They make us stand out, help us succeed. We’re ambitious. We’re growing. We’ve won awards.

Ready to take your career to the next level?Join our innovative technology and data teams as aTechnical Product Owner - Dataand thrive in a dynamic, fast-paced environment. Be part of our innovation journey.

As theTechnical Product Owner, you’ll be accountable for driving the success of your product, focusing on maximising the ROI that your product delivers and maintaining a compliant ‘healthy’ product. One of your key responsibilities will be to develop and own the product vision and roadmap ensuring alignment to the Pillar vision, wider business vision and objectives. You’ll collaborate closely with the Heads of Portfolio and wider business stakeholders & SMEs to define and prioritise product requirements to build your product backlog.

As the Technical Product Owner, you’ll leverage your product knowledge and SME expertise to pinpoint product needs, grasp business value, and collaborate across business pillars to optimize outcome delivery. You’ll be working with your cross functional delivery team driving ownership and empowerment to deliver a high quality and performing product.

Could you fit the bill? We're big on working flexibly - you'll spend most of your time working from home, with one day a week spent in the office. But of course, it’s your choice - if you prefer to be in the office more - that's good with us too. We've offices located inHaywards Heath, West Sussex, Salford Quays, Manchester, and Guernseyit’s your choice.

Core skills we’re looking for to succeed in the role:

• Customer Awareness: You’ll be passionate about putting the customer at the heart of everything we do.
• Decisive Decision Making: You’ll combine rigour and discipline with a pragmatic approach to deliver the highest quality, cost effective features within set timeframes.
• Proactive Leadership: You’ll be forward thinking, proactively driving innovative solutions to business problems and leading the organisation to an even better future.
• Collaborative Communication: You’ll possess strong collaboration and communication skills to effectively translate information between technical team members and non-technical stakeholders.

What’s involved:

• You’ll be accountable for maximizing the ROI of the technical product and balancing different types of demand, ensuring the right levels of technical debt are managed whilst ensuring product stability, resilience, security, scalability and performance are as per agreed service levels.
• You’ll define and communicate the product vision, strategy and roadmap in collaboration with HoPs, business & change stakeholders and product delivery team.
• You’ll conduct market research to analyse industry trends and identify opportunities for product enhancements and innovation in alignment with business plans and objectives.
• You’ll be responsible for aligning product goals with the wider business outcomes supported by Heads of Portfolio and Solution Architecture.
• You’ll create and maintain the product backlog ensuring it is well defined, organised and properly prioritised in line with the CDF.
• You’ll act as the SME for your product responsible for making product decisions.
• You’ll breakdown Epics, with support from Architecture and your product delivery team into features with appropriate acceptance criteria.
• You’ll support your product delivery team in breaking features into user stories and development tasks for effective execution.
• You’ll work closely with your product delivery team in an agile environment playing an active role in PI planning, Sprint planning, backlog refinements, sprint stand ups and retros.
• You’ll work closely with your Agile Data Delivery Lead and Principle Data Engineers to support delivery across the release cycle.
• You’ll work with the Test Practice with the responsibility of signing off the product and release prior to live deployment.
• You’ll drive your product delivery team to meet product KPIs.
• You’ll conduct regular meetings and presentations to update stakeholders on the product’s progress, upcoming features and roadmap changes.
• You’ll construct meaningful release content for company wide release notes highlighting changes to the product and useful information about the impact that changes will deliver.
• You’ll effectively own and manage product(s) risks, controls and mitigations in line with InfoSec, Governance, Data Protection and compliance related standards, frameworks and processes.
• You’ll ensure the Product(s) have a clear set of maintained NFRs.
• You’ll maintain robust controls over Product level spend, product delivery team efficiency and Product value optimisation.
• Any other reasonable duties as required, including out of hours supporting of Releases, Product support.

Experience & Knowledge

• Considerable experience in data delivery and working with delivery teams in a product aligned model.
• Working knowledge of the product/and or SME knowledge of the capabilities and features associated with the product.
• Strengths in combining rigour and discipline with a pragmatic approach to deliver the highest quality, cost effective features within set timeframes.
• Great at building strong, effective relationships with people from different disciplines.
• Excellent stakeholder management experience can handle conflicting stakeholder requirements and bring differing points of view together to move them forward.
• Excellent communication and presentation skills, both verbal and written.
• Good understanding of regulatory requirements specific to the Company and the functions under control.

Skills

• Excellent leadership and motivational skills.
• Decisive decision making and proactive approach to problem solving using analytical thinking and emotional intelligence.
• Excellent communication skills with the ability to present information in a clear and concise manner to a variety of audiences, both technical and non-technical.
• Strong interpersonal skills.
• Excellent time management and organisation skills.

Behaviours

• Target driven, results focused, striving to drive improvements across the change and delivery pipeline.
• Strategic thinker.
• Self-motivated and enthusiastic.
• An organised and proactive approach.
• Flexible approach to work and adopts a positive attitude, embracing, embedding, and incorporating the Company values.
• Strives to drive business improvements to contribute to the success of the business.
• Influence and contribute to strategic decision making, ensuring that deliver of change is aligned to business priorities.

Ready to make a positive impact? Apply now and be part of something big!

What can we do for you?

People first. Always. We’re passionate about our colleagues and know the best people deserve an extraordinary working environment. We owe it to them so that’s what we offer. Our workplaces are energetic, inspirational, supportive. To get a taste of the advantages you’ll enjoy, take a look at all our perks in full here.

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