Product Owner – Fixed Income Value Stream

The Team Product Platform Design (PPD) designs, builds, and evolves SPDJI’s core product platforms that support index creation, calculation, rebalance, analytics, and distribution. We operate a product-led, service-based delivery model and are organised into value streams aligned to major business domains. The Fixed Income Value Stream partners closely with Index Management, R&D, Operations, Data, and Technology to deliver scalable, reusable platform capabilities that support the full index lifecycle across asset classes.

The Impact As a hybrid Product Owner / Business Analyst in the Fixed Income Value Stream, you will translate index-business needs into clear platform capabilities that teams can build, test, and deliver. Your work will directly improve platform reliability, scalability, and reuse—enabling faster delivery of fixed income index capabilities while reducing fragmentation across legacy systems. A key focus of this role is leading a high-impact Fixed Income platform consolidation and migration programme —aligning stakeholders, governing delivery, and ensuring operational readiness for cutovers and post‑migration stability.

What’s in it for You:

• Lead a strategic platform migration programme that modernises how fixed income indices are produced and supported end‑to‑end.
• Work in a product‑led environment with strong partnership across Index Management, Operations, Data, and Technology.
• Influence roadmap priorities and delivery sequencing, balancing short‑term migration needs with longer‑term platform capability.
• Develop breadth across index lifecycle domains (data mastering, calculation, rebalances, distribution, analytics) in a highly cross‑functional setting.
• Operate with real ownership—driving clarity from ambiguity and improving how teams plan, govern, and deliver.

Responsibilities:

• Partner with the Value Stream Lead to shape product direction, define roadmaps, and set delivery priorities for the Fixed Income Value Stream.
• Translate business outcomes into epics, features, and user stories with clear scope, dependencies, and acceptance criteria.
• Own and maintain the agile team backlog in Azure DevOps (ADO), ensuring prioritisation, refinement cadence, and backlog hygiene.
• Provide transparent delivery tracking through ADO dashboards, release notes, and regular stakeholder updates; manage expectations against agreed timelines.
• Lead and facilitate agile ceremonies (refinement, planning, reviews, retros) and support consistent execution across one or more teams.
• Act as a translator between business and technology—communicating complex topics clearly to diverse audiences.
• Perform functional validation; coordinate end‑user testing/UAT; capture bugs and enhancements into the backlog; and coordinate retest cycles to closure.
• Identify cross‑platform dependencies and collaborate with other Product Owners across PPD to sequence work and manage integration risks.
• Support delivery in a service‑based, multi‑team operating model, ensuring intake and prioritisation are clear and repeatable.
• Lead the overall Fixed Income migration programme, defining the delivery approach, timeline, sequencing, and cutover strategy to migrate indices from multiple legacy platforms into the consolidated platform.
• Own the integrated migration plan, coordinating workstreams, dependencies, and milestones to keep delivery on track and stakeholders aligned on readiness.
• Drive cross‑functional execution across Product, Technology, Operations, Index Management, and Data teams; surface risks early and manage issues through resolution.
• Establish and run governance routines (working sessions, milestone reviews, risk/issue management, decision tracking) to maintain momentum and remove blockers quickly.
• Translate migration needs into prioritised ADO backlog items, ensuring teams have well‑defined scope, acceptance criteria, and transparent progress tracking.
• Ensure end‑to‑end readiness for cutover by coordinating entry/exit criteria, operational readiness activities, stakeholder sign‑offs, and post‑migration stabilisation support.
• Maintain proactive stakeholder communication on progress, scope changes, risks, and decision points—ensuring consistent expectations across senior stakeholders and delivery teams.
• Provide oversight across critical migration components including data migration, data mastering, capability gap closure, and legacy‑to‑new reconciliation—ensuring each is planned, sequenced, and delivered within the overall programme.

What We’re Looking For:

• Experience in Product Owner and/or Business Analyst roles in an agile environment, owning backlogs and translating requirements into deliverable work.
• Experience in platform or systems migration and/or major change delivery, including dependency management, governance routines, and cutover readiness.
• Strong understanding of fixed income index products, index lifecycle processes, and the operational workflows required to calculate, rebalance, validate, and distribute indices.
• Demonstrated ability to write clear epics, features, user stories, and acceptance criteria, and to drive alignment on “definition of done.”
• Strong stakeholder management skills, with the ability to influence across Product, Technology, Operations, Index Management, and Data—especially in complex, multi‑team delivery.
• Comfortable engaging in technical discussions and simplifying complexity (e.g., data flows, integrations, platform capabilities) for non‑technical audiences.
• Hands‑on experience managing delivery workflow and reporting via Azure DevOps (ADO) (or equivalent), including dashboards and release communications.
• Strong analytical skills, attention to detail, and a delivery mindset—able to prioritise effectively and keep progress moving in a fast‑changing environment.

Benefits:

• Health & Wellness: Health care coverage designed for the mind and body.
• Flexible Downtime: Generous time off helps keep you energized for your time on.
• Continuous Learning: Access a wealth of resources to grow your career and learn valuable new skills.
• Invest in Your Future: Secure your financial future through competitive pay, retirement planning, a continuing education program with a company‑matched student loan contribution, and financial wellness programs.
• Family Friendly Perks: It’s not just about you. S&P Global has perks for your partners and little ones, too, with some best‑in‑class benefits for families.
• Beyond the Basics: From retail discounts to referral incentive awards—small perks can make a big difference.

S&P Global is an equal opportunity employer and all qualified candidates will receive consideration for employment without regard to race/ethnicity, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, age, disability, marital status, military veteran status, unemployment status, or any other status protected by law.