Product Owner at Mansion House Consulting, Sheffield, 6 Months, £Contract Rate

Role Overview

• Deliver cyber analytics capabilities that measurably improve cyber prevention, control effectiveness, and the resilience of operations across the cyber life cycle
• Engineer, automate, and continuously enhance cyber detection and response capabilities to enable effective, resilient, and scalable security operations
• Provide trusted Cyber risk, control, and regulatory insights that inform executive decision-making and investment prioritization
• Ensure cyber products, data, and bank-wide AI use cases comply with cyber risk appetite, regulatory requirements, and data standards, through effective data and AI governance
• Evolve Cyber analytics platforms, products, and engineering practices through a controlled maturity roadmap, to improve platform and operational resilience, efficiency, and sustainability without increasing risk

The ideal candidate will possess a strong technical product management background, an eagerness to learn, a keen interest in Cybersecurity, the ability to work collaboratively in a fast-paced environment, and an aptitude for picking up new tools and techniques on the job, building on existing skillsets as a foundation.

Principal Accountabilities:

• Lead delivery of operating model development, continuous improvement, product development and programme delivery workstreams, adopting the Agile delivery life cycle.
• Operate at the interface of people, process and transformation, and understand business and technical requirements
• Work with the team to ensure that the design, delivery and adoption plans meet the needs of the users and the constraints of the business.
• Identify, manage and communicate dependencies and risks to product delivery.
• Actively manage Blockers, Risks, Issues, Assumptions and Dependencies and escalating as required, making recommendations to influence decision-making in order to maintain progress towards delivery and benefits realisation.

Required Skills

The successful candidate will possess skills and experience within the following areas and demonstrate a willingness to learn additional skills via on-the-job learning where required.

• Proven experience with operating model development and implementation
• Experience with identifying pain points and implementing optimized ways of working
• Proven experience as a Product Owner or in a similar role within an Agile environment.
• Own and manage the product backlog, ensuring it is aligned with client needs and business objectives.
• Clearly communicate the backlog items and their priorities to the development team.
• Experience with successfully implementing production technology products with an advanced understanding of the methods, principles, and processes necessary to set priorities of development teams to successfully productionize a technology product

Client Engagement

• Experience in engaging with clients and managing stakeholder relationships.
  • Understand clients' roles, needs, and pressures to identify opportunities for innovative product solutions.
  • Work closely with clients to gather requirements and translate them into actionable user stories.
  • Act as the voice of the client within the Agile Scrum team, ensuring products meet client expectations.

Cybersecurity, Data & Technology

• Knowledge of technical software development and engineering technologies and principles, with experience working in software delivery teams
• Understanding of cybersecurity threat and risk management landscape, including the evolving international regulation, policy, framework, and organisational cyber controls response to these threats
• Exposure to Big Data technologies at enterprise scale