Product Owner - (IAM - Identity Access Management)

Role Overview

The Product Owner will play a key role in delivering and operating enterprise Identity & Access Management (IAM) capabilities. The role is responsible for managing the product backlog, ensuring delivery aligns with business objectives and regulatory requirements.

The position works closely with IAM architects, business stakeholders and technology partners.

We are undergoing a transformation of its Identity and Access Management practices including the delivery of a set of net new tools to overhaul how IAM is carried out in the industry. We are seeking experienced and dynamic product owners who have an excellent understanding of Identity Management, with a successful track record of working in complex global organisations at fast pace. The role will report to the program and be part of a dynamic and highly skilled team.

In this role, you will:

Own, maintain and prioritise the product backlog.
Define Epics, Features and User Stories.
Capture and refine business and technical requirements.
Define acceptance criteria for backlog items.
Work closely with Technical Leads and Architects to align business priorities with technical delivery.
Support sprint planning, backlog refinement and release planning.
Balance delivery priorities against technical debt and operational requirements.
Coordinate dependencies across multiple delivery teams.
Engage business stakeholders and technology partners.
Support demonstrations and User Acceptance Testing (UAT).
Ensure regulatory, audit and compliance requirements are represented within the backlog.
Monitor delivery progress and manage scope.
Drive delivery of measurable business outcomes.

To be successful in this role, you should meet the following requirements:

Key Skills & Experience

Technical Skills

Agile Delivery
Product Ownership
Backlog Management
Requirements Engineering

Soft Skills

Stakeholder Management
Business Analysis
Financial Services
Communication and Facilitation
Risk and Compliance Awareness
Ability to adapt and understand new technologies - being self-motivated to learn
Strong interpersonal, influencing, communication and report-writing skills
Ability to interact appropriately with users of various technical skill levels
Ability to work in a multi country, culturally diverse and time-zone separated role.

Additional Knowledge and Capabilities

Enterprise Identity and Access Management.
Human and Non-Human Identity.
Agent Identity.
Workload Identity.
Zero Trust Architecture.
Authentication and Authorisation.
Policy-as-Code.
Identity Lifecycle Management.
Secrets Management.
Certificate Lifecycle Management.
API Security.
Event-driven Identity Integration.
Cloud-native Security.
Observability, Monitoring and Audit.
Secure Software Development Lifecycle (SSDLC).
DevSecOps and Automation.
Production Readiness.
Knowledge Sharing and Documentation.
Delivery within a regulated Financial Services environment.
Collaboration across Architecture, Engineering, Security, Operations and third-party suppliers.

GCS is acting as an Employment Business in relation to this vacancy
Only candidates based in UK and eligible to work in UK are allowed