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Job description
Location: Chatham/London/Bradford
Salary:
Closing Date: Sunday 30 July 2023
About Us
Vanquis Banking Group has a rich history dating back to 1880. The company was founded in Bradford by Joshua Kelley Waddilove as The Provident Clothing and Supply Company to help people access finance and goods who couldn’t from traditional lenders.
Today, Vanquis Banking Group is a FTSE All Share company listed on the London Stock Exchange with around 1.6 million customers and plays the same role in people’s lives today, as it did when it was founded.
Vanquis Banking Group is a unified group made up of two brands: Vanquis (cards and loans) and Moneybarn (vehicle finance). While they offer different products and services, they share the common purpose and customer-centric values at the heart of our group. We understand our customers are real people with varied life experiences, so everything we do from our products to our customer experience is designed with this in mind.
You and Your Team
Reporting into the Engineering Product Lead you will be responsible for leading a team of Engineering Product Owners across three delivery centres (London, Chatham, Bradford). You will also be responsible for achieving customer value through improved features and capabilities delivered by the SCRUM delivery teams you are aligned to. You will develop a thorough understanding of customer and colleagues’ needs and have substantial technical and/or development experience, the combination of which will enable you to coach, motivate and lead the Engineering Product Owner capability within the bank and your SCRUM delivery team. You will have significant stakeholder management experience across Technology and Change, business teams and senior leadership.
Hybrid working is available in this role. We ask that you attend the London office 1 day per week.
This role could be based in any of our four locations; Bradford, London, Petersfield or Chatham.
About the Role
In your day-to-day role, as a Principal Engineering Product Owner you will be responsible for a team of Engineering Product Owners as well as delivering multiple business initiatives by driving IT development teams and managing their Product Backlogs.
- You will take day to day management responsibility including performance reviews, holiday planning, training requirements and Performance Improvement Plans (PIPs).
- You will role model behaviours in communication, collaboration and the recognition and development of the team including regular performance and development conversations, in-time feedback and coaching.
- Work with the Digital Product Owner, Business SMEs and Technology & Change stakeholders to understand customer needs and product requirements.
- Collaborate with Digital Product Owners, Project Managers and Delivery Centre Leads to define and align product roadmaps, delivery schedules and capabilities.
- Lead up to 2 Development Teams to deliver against a shared Product Vision and Product Roadmap by actively driving the scrum ceremonies.
- Work with the Scrum Master to ensure the IT Development Team delivers effectively and efficiently.
- Provide External and Internal customer context to the Development Team and explore creative technical solutions.
- Work with Business SMEs to ensure there is sufficient and effective input into Product Backlogs and Sprint Plans.
- Prioritize and manage the Product Backlog and make informed decisions formed from a strong fact base.
- Take a comprehensive approach to refine and prioritise the Product Backlog considering customer value and other engineering criteria (e.g. technical debt, non-functional requirements).
- Ensure specifications artifacts (e.g. Wireframes, user journey, high-level solution design, Product Backlog) are in place for smoothly triggering the Sprint of new business initiatives.
About You
What you will bring to the team:
- Previous experience working as a line manager developing and coaching others
- Good experience working on a Product Ownership capability
- Significant experience translating large pieces of functionality (product roadmap items / features) into actionable and prioritized user stories.
- Strong communication skills with the ability to influence and build effective working relationships across all levels of the organisation. Comfortable working with and presenting to senior management and ExCo.
- Strong ability of prioritising work based on both business and engineering factors (e.g. technical debt, non-functional requirements)
- Ability to identify both functional and technical dependencies with other teams
- Excellent understanding of APIs, Microservices and SOA
- Experience integrating products with 3rd party services
- It would be desirable for you to have experience of working in Financial Services or Fintech
- Other desirables include experience as a Business Analyst and /or experience working with Azure DevOps, JIRA or similar.
- Previous experience working in Financial Services/ Fintech and/or a highly regulated industry.
- Experience working as a Data Product Owner is desirable.
Why join Vanquis Banking Group?
Vanquis was established in 2003, offering a credit card designed to help customers improve their credit score. In 2016, Vanquis introduced personal loans to give customers additional opportunities on their credit-building journeys. Vanquis brings together our lengthy history in the financial sector with modern money management through its online and app-based accounts.
Our colleagues are the most important part of delivering our purpose to put customers on a path to a better everyday life. If it wasn’t for their amazing efforts, ideas and energy we wouldn’t be the successful business that we are today.
On top of all this, we will give you a package including:
- Competitive salary
- Discretionary annual bonus
- Hybrid working considered
- 25 days annual leave increasing with service (in addition to bank holidays)
- Pension Scheme with matched company contributions up to 10%
- Private Medical Insurance
- Extensive opportunities for personal and career development
- Opportunity to grow, develop and learn
- Colleague Perks at Work discount platform
- Season ticket loan
- One paid day to give back to local communities or chosen charity
We strive to constantly improve the way we look after our people and have created an environment where everyone feels valued and can be themselves. We know that by having a better, more inclusive culture and a diverse group of colleagues, we can support our customers and each other in the best way possible. We also believe this goes a long way to helping us live our purpose and defines why we are here in the first place: to help put people on a path to a better everyday life.
We are an equal opportunities employer and we want people to join us no matter how they identify, their sexual orientation, marital or civil partner status, race, colour, nationality, ethnic or national origin, religion or belief, disability, or age.
We want to attract and retain the best people. So, we make sure that, if people need it, they are given all the extra support and reasonable adjustments to take part in any part of our application or interview process. We have also got lots of colleagues who choose to work flexibly, so please feel free to talk to us about how you prefer to work at any time.
We reserve the right to close this vacancy early if we receive sufficient applications for the role. Therefore, if you are interested, please submit your application as early as possible.
Job Types: Full-time, Permanent
Benefits:
- Company pension
- Referral programme
- Work from home
Schedule:
- 8 hour shift
- Monday to Friday
Work Location: In person
