Product Owner
Posted 1 day ago by Leap29
£70 Per hour
Inside
Hybrid
Warwick, England, United Kingdom
Summary: The role of Product Owner for the UK Infrastructure Programme involves leading the development of high-quality digital products within a mature SAFe environment. The position requires balancing customer needs with stakeholder requirements while ensuring effective delivery and continuous value flow. The successful candidate will act as the voice of the customer and guide solution design to maximize satisfaction and long-term value. This is a hybrid role based in Warwick, requiring an English national eligible for BPSS clearance.
Key Responsibilities:
- Deeply understanding customer needs, both internal and external, and continuously exploring how products, platforms, systems, or APIs are used
- Balancing customer needs with those of stakeholders such as Business Owners, Lean Portfolio Management, and System Architects
- Identifying key problems using design thinking and focusing on the most valuable jobs to be done
- Guiding solution design through Lean UX to maximise customer satisfaction and long-term value
- Creating and shaping well-formed user stories aligned to product strategy, supporting continuous value flow
- Prioritising backlog items based on cost of delay and clearly communicating priorities
- Accepting stories against defined acceptance criteria and the Definition of Done to ensure built-in quality
- Supporting the Architectural Runway in collaboration with System Architects
- Facilitating story elaboration, managing dependencies, and improving team learning and velocity
- Actively participating in team and ART events to maintain cadence and alignment
- Defining and validating benefit hypotheses with Product Management
- Gathering and sharing feedback through reviews, demos, telemetry, and stakeholder engagement
- Continuously evolving product vision, strategy, and design based on feedback and outcomes
Key Skills:
- Proven Product Owner experience within digital product environments
- Strong delivery focus with experience leading product development end to end
- SAFe trained or certified
- Comfortable working with senior stakeholders and cross-functional teams
- Strong understanding of modern digital best practices and Lean-Agile delivery
- A pragmatic mindset that balances strategy with getting things done
Salary (Rate): £70.00/hr
City: Warwick
Country: United Kingdom
Working Arrangements: hybrid
IR35 Status: inside IR35
Seniority Level: undetermined
Industry: IT
Product Owner UK Infrastructure Programme
Start Date: March | 6 Months | Inside IR35
Hybrid - Onsite Warwick 2 days a week
Clearance: Must be an English national and eligible for BPSS
We are looking for an experienced Product Owner to join a large-scale UK infrastructure digital programme. This is a delivery-focused role within a mature SAFe environment, working on products that genuinely matter. If you enjoy shaping digital products, balancing stakeholder needs, and getting things over the line properly (not just talking about it), this one is worth a look.
The details
What you will be doing
You will act as the voice of the customer while balancing business, architectural, and delivery needs across the ART. The focus is on building high-quality digital products with clear value and a strong delivery mindset.
Key responsibilities include
- Deeply understanding customer needs, both internal and external, and continuously exploring how products, platforms, systems, or APIs are used
- Balancing customer needs with those of stakeholders such as Business Owners, Lean Portfolio Management, and System Architects
- Identifying key problems using design thinking and focusing on the most valuable jobs to be done
- Guiding solution design through Lean UX to maximise customer satisfaction and long-term value
- Creating and shaping well-formed user stories aligned to product strategy, supporting continuous value flow
- Prioritising backlog items based on cost of delay and clearly communicating priorities
- Accepting stories against defined acceptance criteria and the Definition of Done to ensure built-in quality
- Supporting the Architectural Runway in collaboration with System Architects
- Facilitating story elaboration, managing dependencies, and improving team learning and velocity
- Actively participating in team and ART events to maintain cadence and alignment
- Defining and validating benefit hypotheses with Product Management
- Gathering and sharing feedback through reviews, demos, telemetry, and stakeholder engagement
- Continuously evolving product vision, strategy, and design based on feedback and outcomes
What we are looking for
Proven Product Owner experience within digital product environments
Strong delivery focus with experience leading product development end to end
SAFe trained or certified
Comfortable working with senior stakeholders and cross-functional teams
Strong understanding of modern digital best practices and Lean-Agile delivery
A pragmatic mindset that balances strategy with getting things done
If this sounds like your kind of challenge and you meet the clearance criteria, get in touch for more details.