Product Owner - Digital

Role profile We have an exciting opportunity for a Technical Product Owner to join our dynamic Digital team within the London Stock Exchange Group. You will be joining Corporate Engineering – a team charged with building, releasing and continuously improving LSEG’s Tier1 corporate websites, turning design and ideas into components that exceed our customers’ expectations. Corporate websites are the public face of LSEG and keeping them fresh, relevant, safe, performant and reliable is paramount. We are a mature, Agile development team that implements and maintains our own systems.

Responsibilities

• Deliver on Digital strategy, Capability projects and become a domain expert and authority for the applications and projects you work on.
• Conduct thorough business process analysis to understand existing workflows and systems, document current processes, create requirements for new processes, develop use cases, and lead requirement changes.
• Lead the analysis, design and implementation of AEM sites and draft detailed business requirements, use cases and systems interaction diagrams.
• Work with key business and technology partners to define and conceptualise product strategy and requirements, approved wireframes and mock‑ups for solutions.
• Relentlessly share a comprehensive view of the required functionality to provide context and meaning to the software we are delivering and to ensure end‑to‑end precision.
• Partner closely with Risk, Legal, Compliance, InfoSec, Architecture and SRE to ensure platforms meet internal and external regulatory obligations.
• Define and track product health metrics (availability, error rates, deployment risk, defect leakage, technical debt).
• Create a solid foundation for SaFe Agile development by providing clear direction, meticulous understanding and strong purpose as standard.
• Maintain an appropriately prioritised backlog of development work – liaising with the development team and wider collaborators to ensure expectations of all interested parties are correctly handled.
• Lead requirement breakdown and estimation sessions with multiple development teams.
• Own and drive quality assurance and software testing efforts with a key focus on automated testing and DevOps enablement of the team.
• Develop and review test plans, test cases and test reports to provide insight into the quality of in‑development products and measure effectiveness of current test strategies.
• Propose and implement software testing strategies for digital transformation initiatives.
• Own and drive software life cycle quality documentation.
• Chip in to project discoveries, business cases, kick‑offs, prepare proposals and statements of work following company standards.

Qualifications and Experience

• Product Manager with a complete understanding of the Software Delivery Lifecycle and delivery methodologies such as Scrum, SaFe and Kanban.
• Proven background in Product management, delivery and change to critical applications and/or websites that are considered regulatory in nature and experience in high‑pressure and dynamic environments.
• Experience as a Product Manager or Product Owner in the digital domain delivering large‑scale websites and cloud projects.
• Experience in leading people, mentoring Product Owners and Business Analysts, and improving delivery practices.
• Experienced in managing senior stakeholders, managing conflicts, aligning priorities and making clear, defensible decisions.
• Authoritative knowledge and proven experience of cloud implementations.
• Knowledge of AWS is a plus.
• Knowledge of Adobe Experience Manager (AEM) is a plus.
• Proficient understanding of all website components and features like Digital Asset Management, workflows, site search, how to overlay components for customisations, integrations analytics.
• Proficient understanding and working experience of creating and maintaining functional specifications for new website templates, components including authoring widgets, custom widgets and workflow customisation/creation.
• Exposure working with content and authors.
• Experience in integrating websites with backend systems and data sources.
• Proficient understanding of cross‑browser compatibility needs.
• Experience with Test Driven Development.
• Working with onshore and offshore teams.
• Champion usage of the Atlassian suite (JIRA, Confluence, Bitbucket) or Asana.
• Proactive, assertive and pragmatic in a demanding and dynamic environment.
• Servant leaders, who put the team first.

Nice to have

• Ability to perform some development and maintenance tasks related to AEM platform code.
• Experience in installation and configuration of AEM, groups and permissions, access control lists, replication agents, service packs, dispatcher configuration.
• Experience in Java development, design and coding (JavaScript, HTML, CSS, jQuery, ReactJS and web technologies).
• Experience in fixing AEM environment issues.
• UX/UI knowledge.

Benefits

LSEG offers a range of tailored benefits and support, including healthcare, retirement planning, paid volunteering days and wellbeing initiatives.

Equal Opportunity Employment

LSEG is a proud equal opportunities employer. We do not discriminate on the basis of race, religion, colour, national origin, gender, sexual orientation, gender identity, gender expression, age, marital status, veteran status, pregnancy or disability, or any other basis protected under applicable law. Conforming with applicable law, we can reasonably accommodate applicants’ and employees’ religious practices and beliefs, as well as mental health or physical disability needs.