Product Owner

Job Description:

About Corporate Bank (CB) and dbDetect project

Corporate Banking is a technology centric business, with an increasing move to real-time processing, an increasing appetite from customers for integrated systems and access to supporting data.  This means that technology is more important than ever for the business.  Our Corporate Bank Technology team is a global team of 3000 coders across 30 countries. The primary businesses that Corporate Bank support are Cash Management, Securities Services, Trade Finance and Trust & Agency Services.  CB Technology support these businesses through CIO aligned teams and also by 'horizontals' such as Client Connectivity, Surveillance and Regulatory, Infrastructure, Architecture, Production, and Risk & Control.

As part of Surveillance and Regulatory, we are responsible for delivering solutions that protect Deutsche Bank’s financial and reputational interests from criminal or inappropriate behavior. Through real-time sanction and embargo filtering, operational risk controls and sophisticated fraud detection that will increasingly deploy artificial intelligence, our systems protect both clients and the bank, allow risks to be managed according to risk appetite, and keep Deutsche Bank in compliance with global and local regulations. The dbDetect system is the Deutsche Bank strategic solution for fraud detection and payment intervention in order to meet risk and security needs as well as regulatory requirements with the aim to stop any online payment where fraud is suspected.

About this Position

As a Product Owner for dbDetect you will act as a strategist and cross-functional team leader and client advocate. You will be defining the new product to be built and managing its development, launch, and ongoing improvement. To fulfil these responsibilities, this role leads a cross-functional team from a delivery perspective. You will work together with several SMEs to define the priorities, identify and coordinate the resolution of issues, coordinate implementation of the changes, communicate with wider team and different business stakeholders, and ensure the backlog is well managed in terms of priorities, dependencies and delivery timelines with a strong focus on high-quality delivery.

Your key responsibilities

• Develop a product vision, requirements and road-map in key focus areas in partnership with the Business Product Manager
• Work closely with the internal clients to plan and prioritize in line with expectation and needs. Assess value and prioritize stories, epics and themes to ensure work focuses on those with maximum value
• Work closely with squad chapter leads and architect to develop technical solutions in line with priorities
• Lead the planning product release plans and set expectation for delivery of new functionalities
• Provide an active role in mitigating impediments impacting successful team completion of Release/Sprint Goals
• Development of professional working relationships with various stakeholder groups across all seniority levels

Your skills and experience

• Experience of working in an agile environment for at least 5 years, practicing Scrum, Kanban, XP or SAFe
• Excellent understanding of client/user needs, business dynamics and key challenges and how these drive potential solutions
• Experience in identifying inefficiencies in the value chain and processes, designing solutions and implementing the solution with the support from all relevant stakeholders
• Capable to connect the dots beyond own focus area considering end to end processes
• Experience leading product and/or cross functional teams
• Able to coordinate prioritization in a complex multi-geographical context
• Knowledge of technical engineering best practices (e.g. test driven development, continuous integration, etc.) 
• Ability to work under pressure, manage client expectations effective and not get overwhelmed by client pressures on team 
• Comfortable dealing with ambiguity and fast changing environments
• Excellent communication and interpersonal skills at different organizational level with both technical and non-technical people 
• Ability to influence senior client business and IT executives in order to follow agreed best practices for deliveries
• Ability to move between strategic discussions with senior client leaders to Scrum team members’ questions and impediments
• Degree in Computer Science, Business or equivalent degree 

Our values define the working environment we strive to create – diverse, supportive and welcoming of different views. We embrace a culture reflecting a variety of perspectives, insights and backgrounds to drive innovation. We build talented and diverse teams to drive business results and encourage our people to develop to their full potential.

We promote good working relationships, encourage high standards of conduct, and work performance. We welcome applications from talented people from all cultures, countries, races, genders, sexual orientations, disabilities, beliefs and generations and are committed to providing a working environment free from harassment, discrimination and retaliation.

We strive for a culture in which we are empowered to excel together every day. This includes acting responsibly, thinking commercially, taking initiative and working collaboratively.