Product Manager - Data and Analytics Consultancy - eFinancialCareers : Job Details

Overview:

Tasks: Lead software development initiatives, turning customer needs into innovative data products.

Company: Join a leader in analytics for top financial institutions worldwide.

Benefits: Enjoy flexible hybrid work, competitive salary, 25 days leave, and private medical cover.

Why this job: Be part of a transformative team shaping the future of financial software with real impact.

Qualifications: Experience in B2B product management and data architecture is essential; tech-savvy candidates preferred.

Other info: Collaborate with diverse teams and engage in exciting projects across technology and data science.

Salary range: £60-90,000 base

This firm builds analytics and business intelligence products that are integral to how the world’s largest corporate and investment banks, asset managers and fintechs measure, plan and improve their businesses. These products include market analysis and benchmarking against peers on market share, revenue performance, client relationship share and quality, operational excellence, return on equity, brand perception, behavioural drivers, and analysis on industry evolution. Customers include all of the largest financial institutions; this firm is the leader in its space.

We are looking for someone to turn customers’ problems into software that delights them. As a Product Manager you will be the owner of multiple software development initiatives. Working closely with the customer and the technology, business, relationship management, operations, data science and governance teams you will:

Discover the underlying unmet needs from the customers;

Define and agree the outcomes and acceptance criteria;

Orchestrate the design of the prototype;

Help architect a software platform providing data ingestion, processing and analytics delivery;

Manage its development through the software development lifecycle;

Build measurement and product improvements processes.

You will focus on the internal and external facing products and components that most require a deep data architecture understanding. You will be part of a small team of technically-minded product managers who are in the process of transforming the organisation and its products into an end-to-end digital experience through the development of a componentised software stack.

What the job involves:

Reporting to the Chief Product Officer, you will:

Apply appropriate methodologies to workshops with external customers alongside the relationship managers, internal customers, sponsors and users to understand their problems, unmet needs and pain points.

Be a customer champion internally to clearly and convincingly articulate your customers’ needs throughout the organisation in service of building the right solution.

Design and facilitate sessions with relevant stakeholders to design wireframes and prototypes that meet their unmet needs.

Produce and own high-quality documentation and communication to internal teams and customers.

Lead high-level architecture design and detailed data architecture design with development scrum teams and operations teams to make the nuanced trade offs that lead to the best technical implementation and operational execution.

Proactively manage the development of the software through Agile process and reactively troubleshoot and problem-solve issues.

Define and track key metrics for the long-term success of the product, learning from the data to prioritise features and enhancements.

Own the Data Architecture discipline inside the Product function to empower and equip your colleagues to make correct and timely decisions around data solution architecture.

Help to manage a team who own other transformation initiatives across technology, data science, operations, employee skills, governance and risk.

Work with the Chief Product Officer to help design, develop, implement and evangelise product management frameworks, tools and processes across the entire business.

Requirements:

You have significant experience in B2B product management with data-heavy products with a demonstrable track record in shipping products as part of a large team.

You have a background in data solution architecture, software engineering, software systems architecture, or an education background in computer science and strong experience in CIB / CCB data and analytics.

You have an expert understanding of the concepts and real-world applications of data architecture, transactional and analytical database design concepts and data analytics systems.

You will have demonstrable experience in hands-on digital transformation roles where you co-designed the software and managed them through their lifecycle.

You are experienced and opinionated about applying a range of product management frameworks and concepts to help solve problems for your customers.

You can demonstrate a first-hand understanding of a component-based cloud architecture and related principles.

You have excellent client-facing interpersonal skills and excel at traversing from high-level concepts to low-level technical detail across highly complex systems.

Nice-to-have:

You have experience in capital markets, investment banking, corporate or institutional banking, or in benchmarking analytics.

You are experienced and opinionated about creating and owning Agile product roadmaps.

A history of successfully working with geographically and culturally diverse teams on large projects.

Experience in the application of Jobs-To-Be-Done and Human Centred Design methodologies in an enterprise setting

Experience in the application of PROSCI, CCMP or similar change management methodologies.

Familiarity with front-end development frameworks such as Angular is an advantage

Familiarity with UX design using Figma is an advantage

Familiarity with high-level scripting languages such as Python and R is an advantage

Strong PowerPoint skills.