Data Platform Product Owner

About the Role

Join us at an exciting time as we embark on our data transformation journey, helping shape a data-driven future of data here at Newcastle Building Society.

Seen as a key role to the success of this, the Data Platform Product Owner, you’ll ensure data products and the platform deliver value to internal stakeholders, third parties and drive business outcomes.

You’ll bridge the gap between data and business goals by understanding problems, aligning business needs with technical capabilities and owning the roadmap to achieve the outcomes of the product.

Alongside managing the product backlog, you’ll define success metrics to track product performance and collaborate with cross-functional teams to ensure product development aligns with user needs and technical feasibility.

Working closely with Data Subject Matter Experts, advocating for data management best practice will be a key element of the role, as will facilitating communication between technical and non-technical stakeholders.

About You

You’ll be an experienced Product Owner with good knowledge of data platforms and warehousing solutions, ideally Azure and Databricks.

Previous experience owning a data platform and products roadmap, the product backlog and user story creation is essential, as is experience using frameworks to prioritise features based on user needs, business impact and technical feasibility.

The ability to articulate complex data concepts and product roadmaps effectively to both technical and non-technical audiences is key for this role, as the ability to solve problems by approaching challenges with a curious mind, digging deep into data to identify root causes and potential solutions.

You’ll be comfortable working in agile methodologies, adapting to change, and delivering products iteratively.

About Us

The Newcastle Building Society Group comprises of Newcastle Building Society, Manchester Building Society, Newcastle Financial Advisers and Newcastle Strategic Solutions. Our purpose, connecting our communities with a better financial future inspires and directs our activities.

The Group provides traditional financial services, helping people own their own home, plan and manage their finances and operate a 32-branch network across the North-East, North-West, Cumbria and Yorkshire. Our Strategic Solutions subsidiary owns the UK’s leading savings management platform and provides managed technology services to new challenger banks and other established providers.

As an inclusive employer and member owned mutual, we aim to reflect the diverse communities we serve and encourage applications from candidates of all backgrounds. We believe everyone should feel valued, respected, and celebrated for who they are, we want colleagues to feel this is a place they belong. A place to be you.

What do you get in return? As well as receiving a competitive annual salary based on above-market pay scales, our reward package includes:

Financial

• Corporate bonus scheme (on target 10%, up to a maximum 15%)
• Pension scheme (up to 9% employer contribution)
• Annual performance related pay reviews
• Colleague mortgage scheme
• Electric car salary sacrifice scheme
• Life assurance (4x salary) and income protection
• Access to our financial advisers
• Access to a range of high street and online discounts

Work/Life Balance

• A 35-hour weekly contract - We are happy to talk flexible working and welcome discussions 30 days’ annual leave + bank holidays
• The option to buy and sell up to 5 days’ holiday
• Hybrid working (typically 3 days’ home based)
• Above statutory family leave entitlement - 3 months full pay, 3 months half pay, regardless of gender or route to parenthood

Health and Wellbeing

• Private medical insurance
• Access to a health cash plan through a Medicash scheme
• Access to an employee assistance programme
• Free onsite gym at our Cobalt head office and access to discounted gym’s
• Two paid volunteering days’ each year
• Cycle to work scheme

Recognising there’s no one-size-fits-all approach to recruitment, we’re committed to ensuring every candidate has the opportunity to showcase their full potential throughout the recruitment process. We strive to make our processes as accessible as possible, if there are any ways in which we can provide support or make adjustments, we would love to discuss this with you, you can contact your Recruiter for this vacancy at [email protected]