Overview

Position Title: Technical Product Owner

Company: Santander UK

Location: Manchester, UK

Job Description:

As a senior member of the team you will drive the design, implementation, testing, deployment and post-release support in an agile development environment. You will execute on engineering and release priorities successfully through strong leadership and communication.

Responsibilities:

  • Managing a portfolio of change related to one or more key products across several squads
  • Delivering the portfolio to time, budget and quality
  • Reporting to senior management at several levels
  • Providing support the infrastructure for the platform, working closely with industry leaders
  • Ensuring the development team on design patterns and performance tuning strategies. Be passionate about making nitty gritty, hands-on improvements

Requirements:

  • As well as having Business Analyst skills, you will be expected to have a technical background, understanding from an architectural perspective what is best for a product
  • Enough technical knowledge to have credible conversations with stakeholders and the ability to be able to defend the architectural landscape if the stakeholder is discussing an idea that may require push back
  • Worked in an arena where security standards have been applied across the full stack (front end, APIs, back end, networking, threat modelling)
  • Experience of agile software development practices (Unit testing, Test driven development or CI/CD)
  • The ability to define technical architecture solutions based on micro services and event driven architecture

About Santander UK

Our purpose at Santander UK is to help people and businesses prosper. We are a leading financial services provider, offering a wide range of personal and commercial financial products and services, with around 15 million customers across our Retail and Corporate Businesses.