Product Owner

Product Owner at HSBC

We are proud to stand at the forefront of the Data and Analytics revolution. To help carry us even further, we are on the lookout for an experienced Product Owner resource to join our global team based in Pune, India. The ideal candidate will be committed to understanding business, data, and transforming data into readable, goal-oriented reports that drive innovation and growth.

The Product Owner will be highly skilled in all aspects of Requirements Gathering, Scoping, Prioritisation, and Requirements detailing, whilst co-ordinating with Business, Operations, and IT colleagues across the bank. This role involves managing the process of accepting new demand, soliciting information to add it to the backlog, ensuring demand fits with wider HSBC strategy, and maximising re-usability of existing assets.

The position will focus on owning, scoping, and prioritising business data requirements through data strategies and designs across multiple data platforms and data tools (reporting, visualization, analytics, etc.). You will work closely with business, Operations, and IT teams to establish business data needs, data strategies, co-design conceptual/logical/physical data models, and drive the build of Analytics and Insights. As an individual contributor, you will also have the ability to lead a 1-4 member team in the future.

Key responsibilities include:

• Collecting and interpreting data, turning it into simple, consumable information to improve business decisions.
• Collaborating with cross-functional teams in an agile environment to scope, prioritise, and detail requirements across GPS Business Domains (Liquidity, Cards, Payments, Pricing & Billing, Client Services business units).
• Working alongside other members of the Product Owner team and IT Business Analysts to define both short-term and long-term features and strategies.
• Proactively scoping & testing business requirements with various technology teams (internal and external) including IT Business Analysts, Project Managers, Developers, and Test Engineers.
• Analysing, designing, developing, implementing, and maintaining Data models from a functionality standpoint.
• Using a combined knowledge of Business domains, Payments applications and platforms, data modelling, statistics, and analytics to solve business and operational problems.

Qualifications

The successful candidate will possess:

• Vast experience in all aspects of Business Requirements Gathering, Scoping, Summarising, writing detailed User Stories, and defining test cases within the financial industry.
• Previous banking experience in a Product Owner role.
• Domain expertise across some of the GPS Business Units: Liquidity, Cards, Payments, Pricing & Billing, Client Services.
• Experience in collecting large data sets, identifying patterns and trends, and leading defect resolution.
• Solid experience in stakeholder co-ordination, Functional Requirements, and Change management.
• Capability to understand customer needs, translate them into backlog items, and deliver business value.
• Experience in Backlog management, prioritisation, defining acceptance criteria, and evaluating success.
• Sound knowledge of payments workflows and statuses across various systems within a large global bank.
• Understanding of payment clearing schemes, settlement processes, and payment formats.
• Ability to effectively navigate and deliver transformation projects in large global financial organisations, amidst challenges posed by bureaucracy, globally distributed teams, and local data regulations.
• Good experience in PL/SQL, querying, and analysing data.
• Exposure to Databases: Oracle, PostgreSQL, BigQuery, Big Table, MongoDB, Neo4j.
• Overall experience of 12+ years, with considerable experience in Business Analysis and Data.
• Experience in using Visualisation Tools.
• Experience in Agile methodology and leading agile delivery, aligned with organisational needs.

Key skills/competency

• Product Ownership
• Agile Methodology
• Data Analytics
• Requirements Gathering
• Stakeholder Management
• Financial Services
• Data Modelling
• SQL
• Payments Processing
• Backlog Management