Product Owner (6-month secondment/FTC)

The role being advertised is for a Product Owner within the Finance Data & Analytics Office (FDAO) at Lloyds Banking Group. The successful candidate will play a pivotal role in shaping the backlog of AI and Automation initiatives for Group Finance, working alongside engineering peers to deliver innovative, benefits-driven outcomes. The role involves prioritizing and managing the product backlog, delivering proofs-of-concepts, and continually improving approaches for solving common AI use cases.

The position is based in Bristol and is a fixed-term contract for six months.

JOB TITLE: Product Owner (6-months secondment/FTC)

SALARY: £76,194 - £89,640

LOCATION: Bristol

HOURS: Full-time

WORKING PATTERN: Our work style is hybrid, which involves spending at least two days per week, or 40% of our time, at one of our office sites.

About this opportunity

Group Finance is central to Lloyds Banking Group and data is a key enabler in satisfying the needs of our internal and external customers. The Finance Data & Analytics Office (FDAO), part of the Finance Platform, is a Centre of Data Excellence encompassing activities across Data Engineering, Data Management & Culture, Data Science and Reporting with a purpose to Empower through Trusted Data. We're evolving our data & analytics offering, our ethos, and our capability to craft a truly data-led organisation which is at the heart of the Finance Strategy.

Product Owner - AI & Automation

The Data Applications & Solutions Lab within FDAO are focussed on the design and development of Data Solutions for Finance, leveraging advances in the Group's AI and Automation technologies, to deliver innovative, benefits-driven outcomes for Group Finance customers.

You'll play a pivotal role in shaping our backlog of AI and Automation initiatives with our customers across Group Finance, working alongside your peer in Engineering to triage, refine, mobilise and deliver use cases that will unlock and deliver business benefits.

You'll help make FDAO a fantastic place to work - supporting our agenda on inclusion, growth and having fun. There'll be lots of opportunities for you to get involved, be seen and to make a real difference.

And through all of this, the underpinning thread is your role in Helping Britain Prosper.

Why Lloyds Banking Group?

We're the UK's biggest digital bank, with over 18 million online customers. But there's still so much more we want to achieve. Data represents a critical part of our business and our vision for the future. We're investing more than £3bn into our people, technology and data to ensure we can make a real, positive impact to millions of customers, businesses and communities, today and tomorrow.

What you'll be doing

• Shape Product vision and roadmap
• Prioritise, refine and manage team product backlog
• Work with Engineering peer to manage a cross-functional team to deliver benefit-driven outcomes
• Product control and change governance
• Own and continually improve upon our current approaches for solving common AI use cases
• Delivery of proofs-of-concepts that demonstrate these new capabilities and how they can deliver value

What you'll need

• Experience working in an agile environment, focussed on delivering iterative value
• Strong communication skills and the ability to collaborate effectively with other teams
• Understanding of risks and mitigators for Generative AI applications

About working for us

Our focus is to ensure we're inclusive every day, building an organisation that reflects modern society and celebrates diversity in all its forms. We're committed to creating a consciously inclusive workplace where our colleagues can be themselves, thrive and perform at their best.

We were one of the first major organisations to set goals on diversity in senior roles, create a menopause health package, and a dedicated Working with Cancer Initiative.

As an inclusive employer, we offer Workplace Adjustments for colleagues with a disability (which may include long-term health and neurodivergent conditions) where it is reasonable to do so. This could include flexibility with regards to office attendance, location, and working pattern.

We are proud to be a Disability Confident Leader. If you have a disability, you can also apply via our Disability Confident Scheme (DCS). Through the DCS, we guarantee to interview a fair and proportionate number of applicants with a disability, whose application meets the minimum criteria for the advertised job role.

We also provide adjustments that are reasonable throughout the recruitment process to reduce or remove barriers for applicants with a disability, long-term health condition or neurodivergent condition. If you'd like an adjustment to the recruitment process just let us know.

We also offer a wide-ranging benefits package, which includes:

• A generous pension contribution of up to 15%
• An annual performance-related bonus
• Share schemes including free shares
• Benefits you can adapt to your lifestyle, such as discounted shopping
• 30 days' holiday, with bank holidays on top
• A range of wellbeing initiatives and generous parental leave policies

Ready to start growing with purpose? Apply today!