Technical Product Owner

**Overview of Citi**:
Citi is a world-leading global bank. We have approximately 200 million customer accounts and a presence in more than 160 countries and jurisdictions worldwide. We provide consumers, corporations, governments, and institutions with a broad range of financial products and services, including consumer banking and credit, corporate and investment banking, securities brokerage, transaction services, and wealth management. We enable clients to achieve their strategic financial objectives by providing them with cutting-edge ideas, best-in-class products and solutions, and unparalleled access to capital and liquidity.

Citi Belfast is one of the largest employers in Northern Ireland with a diverse and talented team of over 3000 people from over 40 different nationalities across our four Belfast offices.

We are the only global investment bank operating in Northern Ireland. Every day, our local experts interact with global teams in over 100 countries developing and supporting next-generation technology solutions for the enterprise and delivering critical services to the bank and its customers, to make sure we are a stronger and safer organization for our clients.

You will have a truly global reach, which will provide you with new experiences and development opportunities right here in Belfast’s iconic Titanic Quarter.

**Role overview**:
With over 10 years of delivery successes, the Trade Surveillance Technology team at Citi Belfast designs and develops leading software products that enable our internal compliance partners to detect potentially illegal trading patterns on the world’s capital markets. We are experts in our field and are proud of our local culture of design and innovation, strategic thinking, global technology solutions delivery, and working as a team to play a role in ensuring responsible finance for Citi’s clients. Our trade surveillance platforms allow users to monitor trading activity across multiple asset classes and information barriers, end of day, and historic lookup bases for indications of potential Market Abuse, Insider Dealing, and other types of fraud.
We are currently recruiting for a Product Owner, this is a development role where your skills will be developed to be responsible for driving the product vision. Product owners need to understand the “Why?” behind the product development,” Who is it for?” and “what value?” does the product create for the business. Product Owners take the strategic and tactical decisions for the final product. A product owner is empowered to take the product decision and need to be available for the team to clarify the requirements.

**Responsibilities**:

- Contributing to the product vision to drive strategic outcomes.
- Lead the product functional design process and create the product roadmap based the partnership between users and technology.
- Work in an agile environment by continuously reviewing the business needs, refining priorities, outlining milestones and deliverables and identifying opportunities and risks.
- Create features and functionalities which enable achieving business goals by collaborating with stakeholders.
- Create and manage the product backlog, prioritising features which maximise the business value.
- Facilitate backlog decomposition sessions with the technology teams to clearly define acceptance criteria for the user stories.
- Partner with the technology team to break down large stories based on estimation.
- Participate in the testing /review sessions and provide support for release.
- Track and report product performance post-launch to evaluate future investment.
- Create feedback loops by leading the agile events seeking continuous feedback from stakeholders and incorporate in the backlog to achieve the desired outcomes.

**Qualifications**:

- Experience in data analysis with intermediate/advanced Microsoft Office Suite skills
- Exposure of Agile methodology
- Knowledge of applicable business systems and industry standards
- Proven analytical, data analysis, organisation and presentation skills
- Demonstrated ability to manage a diverse project portfolio
- Consistently passionate for research, ideation and exploration with understanding of business analysis procedures and concepts
- Consistently demonstrate clear and concise written and verbal communication
- Proven ability to work independently and in a team with understanding of how collaboration accomplishes objectives

**What We Offer**:
We work hard to have a positive financial and social impact on the communities we serve. In turn, we put our employees first and provide the best-in-class benefits they need to be well, live well and save well.

We’ll provide you with the resources to meet your unique needs, empower you to make healthy decisions, and allow you to choose which benefits suit you and your personal life best.

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