Cyber Product Owner (FS Industry Required)

Job Title: Cyber Product Owner (FS Industry Required)
Location: Sheffield (hybrid - 3 days in office)
Salary/Rate: £(Apply online only) per day inside IR35
Start Date: May
Job Type: Initial contract until 30/11/2026

Company Introduction
We have an exciting opportunity now available with one of our sector-leading consultancy clients! They are currently looking for a skilled Cyber Product Owner to join their client at a Tier 1 bank in Sheffield on a hybrid basis.

Job Responsibilities/Objectives

- Collaborate with Access Control Global business stakeholders/leaders and architects to refine and prioritise the product backlog to maximise the business benefits.
- Define and drive the execution of all transformation technology initiatives in the Access Control sub stream.
- Actively manage and monitor all budgetary requirements in Access Control Pod to support short to long-term business vision.
- Assess and ensure business demand aligns with investment plans & Technology Strategy.
- Support the management of Technology- business relationship; represent Technology in business discussions and ensure necessary technology capabilities required by the business are developed.
- Leading an Agile pod to maximise velocity and ensure alignment with business priorities.
- Driving innovation and proof of concepts to help shape Access Control strategy and roadmap.
- Ensuring alignment with our clients standards, governance and documentation requirements.

Impact on the Business

- Contribute to, and influence, the Access Control Transformation and Run the bank Roadmap
- Ensure timely and quality delivery of all agreed initiatives that achieve the stated aims
- Provide an efficient and continuously improving DevOps capability that balances both stable operation and ongoing evolution of the Access Control Pod.

Customers / Stakeholders

- Build trusting relationships with stakeholders by consistently meeting and delivering upon their business needs; demonstrating and being respected for your knowledge.
- Ensure own conduct maintains the orderly and transparent operation of financial markets.

Leadership & Teamwork
- Promote the adoption of Agile and Customer Centricity across the team

Operational Effectiveness & Control:
- Continuously monitor information from various sources to assess potential impacts and identify risks, necessary changes and business opportunities.
- Apply IT policies, procedures, practices and standards to their allocated tasks, taking responsibility for their own actions, to ensure the achievement of high levels of quality, effective risk management and regulatory compliance.
- Suggest ideas and contribute to implementing actions that will improve customer service, quality or the way teams and individuals work together.

Required Skills/Experience
The ideal candidate will have the following:

- Experienced technology manager with proven experience in delivering large transformation and Run the bank programmes externally-hosted, cloud based SaaS / PaaS based solutions using 3rd parties for effective delivery and support.
- Extensive experience of Agile project/programme management and DevOps
- Protective security business process transformation/optimisation experience
- Experience with protective Security applications - access control, CCTV, Intruder detection and PSIM
- Experienced people manager, across wide range of capability levels
- Proven capability in IT Service Management/Ownership (Service, Incidents, Problems, Changes, Release, Risks, Data etc)
- Evidence of large scale / global technology transformation, service introduction and/or service management within complex multi-national organisation
- Experience of operating within regulated industries and the associated Governance frameworks (ideally within Financial Services)

SKILLS AND KNOWLEDGE

- Experience in managing budgets and monitoring spends and report the financial health of the POD/department.
- Knowledgeable in Protective security processes and operating models.
- Able to use structured techniques to drive end-to-end solution design, ensuring user centric and outcome-based approach.
- Able to develop quantitative and qualitative business cases based on tangible benefit realisation
- Aptitude for problem solving and sharing best practice, methods, tools and templates
- Strong written and presentation skills - ability to present technical details to a non-technical audience
- Strong interpersonal and stakeholder management skills - able to engage with a diverse stakeholder group at all levels of the organisation

If you are interested in this opportunity, please apply now with your updated CV in Microsoft Word/PDF format.

Disclaimer
Notwithstanding any guidelines given to level of experience sought, we will consider candidates from outside this range if they can demonstrate the necessary competencies.
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