Job Description
We are seeking a highly skilled and experienced Product Owner to join our Platform Engineering Squad. The ideal candidate will have a robust understanding of trading platforms—both technically and functionally, preferably Murex—and possess a clear understanding of asset classes, valuation, risk, and integration touch points. This role requires excellent stakeholder management skills and the ability to articulate business requirements into technical priorities.
Workplace Attendance:
While the bank has a 50% work-from-home policy, the expectation for this role is to be in the office 5 days a week.
Key Responsibilities
* Lead the Platform Engineering Squad in delivering strategic roadmaps while managing other responsibilities
* Work with stakeholders across various areas, including Technology, to co-create priorities for the Platform Engineering Squad
* Manage the backlog, prioritise tasks, and lead refinements to ensure timely delivery of features and enhancements
* Support the Crew Lead to ensure overall crew objectives and business OKRs are met
* Identify risk, dependencies, and issues for the squad in line with excellent management of operational risk and compliance outcomes
* Stay abreast of external market trends, including regulatory, economics, and innovation
* Work with other Product Owners to bring in common standards and implement best practices across the squads
* Act as the voice of the customer and business, translating needs into actionable priorities for the squad
* Drive product exploration using design thinking, analytics, and hypothesis-driven validation
* Lead the delivery of strategic initiatives such as platform upgrades, data platform integration, API endpoints, and AI-assisted tooling
* Lead and coordinate delivery across platform technology squads.
* Support the Crew Lead in governance forums, quarterly planning (BRP, QBR), and delivery reporting
* Maintain a healthy and prioritised backlog to deliver business and customer outcomes
* Manage squad performance against defined objectives, including OKR tracking and agile maturity metrics (e.g., sprint burndown, release burn-up, team health)
* Manage a mix of internal and external stakeholders, primarily within the domain/business unit, with some dependencies on other Crews
* Collaborate with Technology, Risk, Operations, and Business stakeholders to co-create and align priorities
* Ensure prioritisation is understood and agreed upon across senior business and technical stakeholders
* Deliver operational risk and issue management for a defined set of controls and execution risks
* Ensure all obligations across customer, regulatory, internal policy, and process frameworks are fully met
* Identify, articulate, and manage risks, dependencies, and compliance across streams of work
* Contribute to best practices and uplift the Product Owner community within CBA
* Role model continuous improvement and customer focus
* Drive squad effectiveness and agile maturity in partnership with Agile Coaches and Performance Leads
* Determine and coordinate change request and delivery framework-related administrative tasks with the squad and crew
Requirements
* Previous experience as a Product Owner in the institutional banking or global markets domain
* Previous experience in prioritisation, managing backlogs, and leading refinements
* Excellent stakeholder management skills and should have managed multiple stakeholders at once
* Proficient in articulating business requirements into technical priorities.
* Experience with trading platforms, preferably Murex, in a cloud setup, and understanding of upstream and downstream integration endpoints
* Good understanding of various asset classes, their valuation, risk, and the trade lifecycle
* Knowledge of various market data and how market data systems integrate with trading platforms
* Understanding of APIs, web services, microservices, enterprise architecture, and experience in modernising legacy platforms
* Good understanding of cloud infrastructure, preferably AWS, including optimisation for performance and cost
* Ability to lead work to deliver on strategic roadmaps while juggling other priorities
* An eye for cost and process optimisation through presenting various options and their costs and benefits
* Awareness of CI/CD pipelines and enabling self-service features
* Experience in building strategic roadmaps is desirable
* Adept at collaborating across multiple teams, domains, and time zones
* Business mindset to combine technology to drive business outcomes
Preferred Qualifications
* Tertiary education in Finance, Mathematics, or Computer Science
* Previous certification as Product Owner
* Previous experience in investment banking
* Strong analytical and problem-solving skills
* Excellent communication and interpersonal skills
* Ability to work collaboratively in a team environment
* Strong understanding of technology
If you are passionate about trading platforms and have the skills and experience required for this role, we would love to hear from you.
If you're already part of the Commonwealth Bank Group (including Bankwest, x15ventures), you'll need to apply through Sidekick to submit a valid application. We're keen to support you with the next step in your career.
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