GCP Product Manager

Join us at Barclays as a GCP Product Manager and play a key role in delivering secure and scalable GCP landing zones to support our API strategy with Apigee. You’ll collaborate with product owners and technical teams to build, operate, and enhance the platform, ensuring a seamless experience for API customers.

To be successful as a GCP Product Manager, you should have experience with:

• Hands-on experience building enterprise scale GCP Landing Zones within regulated environments.
• Proven ability to influence engineers, designers, and senior stakeholders with competing priorities, building trust and alignment across teams to enable cohesive delivery.
• Ability to leverage analytics to make data-informed decisions, with strong understanding of business context, product fit, and emerging digital technologies.
• Ability to align product decisions with long-term business and technology strategies and ensure commercial viability and technical feasibility across multiple products.

Some other highly valued skills may include:

• Public Cloud and Product Management certified, with formal or informal training.
• Experience working in finance, banking, or fintech environments.

You may be assessed on the key critical skills relevant for success in role, such as risk and controls, change and transformation, business acumen strategic thinking and digital and technology, as well as job-specific technical skills.

This role is based in Knutsford/Glasgow.

To collaborate with product owners and other technical teams involved in the product development process and utilise their knowledge of the bank’s technologies to enact the vision defined in the product roadmap.

• Provision of subject matter expertise to support the collaboration between the product owner and the technical side of product development.
• Support the development and implementation of the product strategy and vision defined in the product roadmap and communicate them with the relevant stakeholders and the development team.
• Collaboration with internal stakeholders to gather and prioritise product requirements and features based on business value and feasibility that are well defined, measurable and secure.
• Development and implementation of assessments to ensure continuous testing and improvement of product quality and performance.
• Monitoring of product performance to identify opportunities for optimisation that meets the banks performance standards.
• Stay abreast of the latest industry technology trends and technologies, to evaluate and adopt new approaches to improve product development and delivery.

• To contribute or set strategy, drive requirements and make recommendations for change. Plan resources, budgets, and policies; manage and maintain policies/ processes; deliver continuous improvements and escalate breaches of policies/procedures..
• If managing a team, they define jobs and responsibilities, planning for the department’s future needs and operations, counselling employees on performance and contributing to employee pay decisions/changes. They may also lead a number of specialists to influence the operations of a department, in alignment with strategic as well as tactical priorities, while balancing short and long term goals and ensuring that budgets and schedules meet corporate requirements..
• If the position has leadership responsibilities, People Leaders are expected to demonstrate a clear set of leadership behaviours to create an environment for colleagues to thrive and deliver to a consistently excellent standard. The four LEAD behaviours are: L – Listen and be authentic, E – Energise and inspire, A – Align across the enterprise, D – Develop others..
• OR for an individual contributor, they will be a subject matter expert within own discipline and will guide technical direction. They will lead collaborative, multi-year assignments and guide team members through structured assignments, identify the need for the inclusion of other areas of specialisation to complete assignments. They will train, guide and coach less experienced specialists and provide information affecting long term profits, organisational risks…