Product Owner

TP ICAP Group; City of London; Hybrid; GBP 70,000 - 90,000; Full time

Job summary

A global market infrastructure provider in London seeks an experienced Product Owner to drive the Fusion Platform's development. Responsibilities include managing the product backlog, collaborating with stakeholders, and ensuring product delivery aligns with user needs. The ideal candidate has experience in Financial Services Technology and strong communication skills. This role offers a full-time position with potential for hybrid work.

Qualifications

• Proven experience operating as a Product Owner, ideally within a SAFe Agile environment.
• Ability to create and own the Product Backlog with clear user stories.
• Experience clarifying requirements with development teams.

Responsibilities

• Create and own the Product Backlog, ensuring User Stories are clearly defined.
• Prioritize product backlog items based on their business value.
• Collaborate with UX Designers to create mock-ups for the final product.

Skills

Proven experience in Financial Services Technology

Excellent communication skills

Experience managing a Product Backlog

Experience with Agile tooling (e.g., Jira)

Understanding of front-to-back trade lifecycle

Tools

Jira

Figma

Job description

Product Owner page is loaded## Product Ownerlocations: Londontime type: Full timeposted on: Posted Yesterdayjob requisition id: R4600The TP ICAP Group is a world leading provider of market infrastructure.Our purpose is to provide clients with access to global financial and commodities markets, improving price discovery, liquidity, and distribution of data, through responsible and innovative solutions.Through our people and technology, we connect clients to superior liquidity and data solutions.The Group is home to a stable of premium brands. Collectively, TP ICAP is the largest interdealer broker in the world by revenue, the number one Energy & Commodities broker in the world, the world’s leading provider of OTC data, and an award winning all-to-all trading platform.Founded in London in 1866, the Group operates from more than 60 offices in 27 countries. We are 5,200 people strong. We work as one to achieve our vision of being the world’s most trusted, innovative, liquidity and data solutions specialist.TP ICAP’s Fusion platform is a multi-asset liquidity platform that is driving the transition of TP ICAP’s Global Broking business from voice to electronic protocols. The platform enables clients to smoothly access TP ICAP’s liquidity pools across all products, asset classes, brands and regions. It has been recognized as the OTC trading platform of the year by Risk Magazine**Role Overview**As the Product Owner (PO) you will be responsible for helping to deliver on TP ICAP’s vision for the Fusion Platform, supporting hybrid broking across TP ICAP business divisions.You will be the Agile team member primarily accountable for maximizing the value delivered by the feature team, supporting the development team alongside the Scrum Master and Business Analyst to deliver tangible outcomes.You will work in partnership with the Product Manager to ensure that delivery aligns to the overall product strategy and priorities. You will also work closely with stakeholders in both IT and the business, including end users, to drive the product roadmap and build relationships between key parties within the organisation.**Role Responsibilities*** Create and own the Product Backlog, ensuring User Stories are clearly defined and meet the agreed Definition of Ready* Prioritize product backlog items based on their business value, alignment to strategy and the time required to complete them* Assist the development team in clarifying requirements and helping them to understand priorities and business drivers* Collaborate with UX Designers to create mock-ups for the final product* Review prototypes and other proofs of concepts for feasibility before moving to the next stage* Verify that the product meets customer needs by reviewing feedback from customers or conducting usability testing* Communicate with stakeholders to ensure everyone is aligned with Epics, Features, User Stories and delivery roadmap* Co-ordinate effort across Fusion Platform for new developments, managing delivery including highlighting slippages, etc to stakeholders* Oversight of BAU issues to ensure prompt resolution and help identify thematic trends* Help drive improvements in functionality and process across in-scope applications within Fusion* Gain full end to end understanding of functionality and capabilities of upstream applications to help troubleshoot issues and facilitate requirement gathering and solutioning* Facilitation of regular meetings between key stakeholders across relevant teams to drive prioritisation of effort and define roadmap for applications* Manage corporate change process, risk process and stakeholder communication* Manage ad-hoc tasks as required**Experience / Competences**Essential* Proven experience operating as a Product Owner in Financial Services Technology, ideally within a SAFe Agile environment* Excellent communication skills, with experience in working with both Business Stakeholders and Technical teams* Experience in managing a Product Backlog, including documentation of user stories, well-defined acceptance criteria, and clear prioritisation* Experience of using Agile tooling to support team delivery e.g. Jira* Experience of using design tools e.g. Figma to make Mock-ups to communicate concepts to the development team or Stakeholders* A good understanding of the front-to-back trade lifecycle, including client facing UI, trading, middle/back-office (booking, clearing), on-boarding, and reference dataDesired* Experience of Financial Messaging e.g. XML, FIX* Authentication Services and APIs e.g. OAuth2, Okta* Cloud Services e.g. AWS* Experience of SAFe Agile framework**Job Band & Level*** Manager, 6**#LI-Hybrid #LI-MID****Company Statement**We know that the best innovation happens when diverse people with different perspectives and skills work together in an inclusive atmosphere. That's why we're building a culture where everyone plays a part in making people feel welcome, ready and willing to contribute. TP ICAP Accord - our Employee Network - is a central to this. As well as representing specific groups, TP ICAP Accord helps increase awareness, collaboration, shares best practice, and holds our firm to account for driving continuous cultural improvement.**Location**UK - 135 Bishopsgate - London**Connecting clients, communities and colleagues for sustainable growth**TP ICAP connects people, platforms, ideas, and insight across the world’s financial, energy and commodities markets. As a global leader in market infrastructure and data-led solutions, we enhance market access, increase efficiencies, and unlock possibilities.**Work with us**Joining TP ICAP puts you at the heart of markets that matter.You’ll have the freedom to innovate and act on your initiative. We’ll train you and build your abilities in your specialist area, so that you can become an expert in your field. And all within a connected network that’s there to set you up for success.TP ICAP Group is a collection of premium brands each with a distinct, client-focused offering. Underpinning and connecting these client-facing brands is the financial security, operational strength and know-how we have as a Group.Connections are at the heart of what we do. We combine our people’s know-how with the latest technology to improve price discovery, trade execution and liquidity flow.Connections create strength. Through them, we help our clients to manage risk, realise investment strategies and expand the scope for growth.And connections act as a catalyst. Sparking richer solutions for our clients to break new ground, modernising markets for future performance, and creating dynamic careers for our people. Our capacity to connect builds trust, supports communities and gives us the power to anticipate and respond to change, whatever direction the world takes. It’s what makes TP ICAP a mainstay in the global markets, now and in the future.TP ICAP. We connect.