Associate Director, IT, Technical Product Owner

We are seeking a skilled and experienced Technical Product Owner (TPO) to join our dynamic technology organisation and play a key role in the continued evolution of MTC (MUFG Trade Connect). MTC supports critical trade execution and trade lifecycle workflows requiring strong delivery discipline high operational readiness and close collaboration across technology and business stakeholders.

This role will span 2 squads - MTC Core and MTC Appian squads - ensuring aligned prioritisation consistent execution and predictable delivery across the programme. As a Technical Product Owner you will bridge technical and business needs own both the business and technical backlogs and be accountable for delivering high-quality outcomes through UAT and Production releases.

Reporting line: This role reports into the IT Lead for the trade processing domain.

You Will:

• Own delivery across two squads (MTC Core & MTC Appian): drive predictable execution from discovery through UAT and Production ensuring commitments are met and outcomes are realised.
• Backlog ownership (business technical): create maintain and prioritise a transparent backlog covering features enablers tech debt and operational readiness; keep work ready via regular refinement.
• Translate needs into buildable scope: shape epics/stories with clear acceptance criteria; validate feasibility against architecture/platform constraints; surface trade-offs early.
• Dependency & risk management: identify cross-team/system dependencies plan sequencing remove blockers and escalate decisions needed to maintain flow.
• Quality compliance & release governance: ensure testing and non-functional requirements are embedded; lead release readiness and change execution so deployments are safe and repeatable.
• DevOps & continuous improvement: champion CI/CD automation and engineering standards that improve reliability cycle time and operability.
• Observability & data-driven decisions: use monitoring and delivery/service metrics to steer prioritisation and continuous improvement across both squads.
• Production support partnership: act as L3 for product incidents coordinating with L2/Application Management and engineering to restore service and prevent recurrence.
• Stakeholder alignment: serve as the technical voice with business and engineering stakeholders providing clear updates on progress risks options and decisions.

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Qualifications :

You Have:

• Strong experience as a Technical Product Owner / Product Owner for a technology platform ideally within financial services or another regulated environment.
• Proven ability to drive delivery outcomes in an agile squad model with a strong grasp of Scrum and/or Kanban practices.
• Demonstrated experience owning and managing both business and technical backlogs including writing epics/user stories with clear acceptance criteria and sequencing work for value and risk.
• Strong understanding of software delivery lifecycle release management operational readiness and production support responsibilities.
• Confidence engaging with engineering teams on architecture technical trade-offs performance and technical debt while communicating clearly to non-technical stakeholders.
• Strong analytical and problem-solving skills with the ability to make pragmatic decisions in a fast-paced environment.
• Excellent communication and stakeholder management skills with the ability to drive alignment across teams functions and priorities.
• Experience with product delivery tooling such as Jira and Confluence (or equivalent).

Certifications (Preferred)

• Industry-recognised certification such as PSPO I () or equivalent.

Additional Information (Preferred)

• Experience working on platforms involving trade lifecycle workflows operational processes and integrations with third parties.
• Familiarity with DevOps practices CI/CD pipelines and release/change governance in regulated environments.
• Experience using observability and operational metrics (monitoring logging alerting incident trends) to improve reliability and prioritisation decisions.
• Exposure to low-code/workflow platforms (e.g. Appian) and the operational considerations associated with them.

Additional Information :

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Remote Work :

No

Employment Type :

Full-time