Product Manager – Application Integration (Infrastructure) - #1718846

Embark on a transformative journey as a Product Manager at Barclays. Our vision is clear – to redefine the future of banking and craft innovative solutions. Ensuring the reliability, availability, and scalability of systems, platforms, and technology through software engineering techniques, automation, and incident response best practices.

To be successful as a Product Manager, you should have:

• Experience serving critical technology-driven products.


• Knowledge of Agile methodologies within the Product Development Lifecycle.


• Proven experience in Product Discovery, data, and delivery methods.


• Excellent communication skills – able to translate complex information across different levels of the business and proactively gather data from stakeholders and clients.

Other valued skills include:

• Product, Market, and Industry Knowledge of Application Integration Technologies such as Kafka, IBM MQ, IBM ACE, Active MQ, IBM Connect Direct, IBM Sterling B2B Integrator, Stonebranch Universal Data Mover, IBM StreamSets, Ab Initio.


• Understanding of modern infrastructure architecture (containerisation, virtualization, public cloud) and Site Reliability Engineering practices including IaaS, Metrics, and Observability tools.


• Experience working in finance, banking, or fintech with an internal customer base.

You may be assessed on key skills such as risk and controls, change and transformation, business acumen, strategic thinking, digital and technology skills, and role-specific technical skills.

This role offers the option to work from Radbroke (Primary) and Glasgow (Secondary).

Collaborate with product owners and technical teams to utilize their knowledge of bank technologies and enact the product roadmap vision.

• Provide subject matter expertise to support collaboration between product owners and technical teams.


• Support development and communication of the product strategy and vision.


• Gather and prioritize product requirements based on business value and feasibility.


• Develop assessments to ensure continuous testing and improvement of product quality and performance.


• Monitor product performance to identify opportunities for optimization.


• Stay updated on industry technology trends to adopt new approaches for product development and delivery.

• Advise and influence decision-making, contribute to policy development, and collaborate across functions.


• Lead a team performing complex tasks, set objectives, and coach employees.


• Demonstrate leadership behaviors: Listen and be authentic, Energize and inspire, Align across the enterprise, Develop others.


• For individual contributors, lead collaborative assignments and guide team members, identifying new directions and methodologies.


• Consult on complex issues and support risk mitigation and policy development.


• Manage risk and strengthen controls related to work.


• Collaborate with other areas to align with business strategy.


• Engage in complex data analysis to solve problems creatively.


• Communicate complex or sensitive information effectively.


• Influence stakeholders to achieve outcomes.

All colleagues are expected to embody Barclays Values: Respect, Integrity, Service, Excellence, and Stewardship, and demonstrate the Barclays Mindset: Empower, Challenge, and Drive.