Product Owner Lead
Core
Lead product priorities and end-to-end delivery of shared platform functionality, enhancements, and remediation for a major insurance modernisation programme.
Role type
Senior Product Owner Lead (Insurance Modernisation)
Builds
Shared platform capabilities, policy and billing system enhancements, and data/finance integrations for multiple insurance product lines.
Domain
Insurance / Financial Services
Deliverable
product features
Required skills
Product ownership, backlog management, stakeholder negotiation, delivery leadership, Agile delivery, offshore team coordination, risk and compliance balancing
Preferred skills
Insurance domain expertise, Guidewire platform experience, banking/financial services delivery background
Technologies
Guidewire, Policy systems, Billing systems, Data platforms
Responsibilities
Own and prioritise the backlog for shared capabilities across multiple insurance product lines; Translate business needs into clear outcomes, requirements and delivery priorities; Negotiate competing demands across stakeholders in finance, pricing, data and analytics, underwriting, product and distribution; Coordinate dependencies, release opportunities and delivery constraints across teams and implementation partners; Challenge requests constructively to understand the underlying business need and identify effective solutions; Work closely with Business Analysts and delivery specialists to take changes through to implementation; Communicate priorities, decisions, risks and progress clearly to business and technology stakeholders; Support Agile delivery and continuous improvement as the stream evolves.