See yourself in our team:
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.
Specifically you will:
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)
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
Determine and coordinate change request and delivery framework-related administrative tasks with the squad and crew
Some of the key product owner experience we are after are as follows:
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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