End Date

Monday 28 July 2025

Salary Range

£59,850 - £66,500

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Job Description Summary

As a Product Owner within our Consumer Lending team, you'll be at the forefront of transforming the way we serve our customers. This is an outstanding opportunity to bring to bear your technical expertise and leadership skills to drive world-class solutions in a fast-paced, ambitious environment. You will have a direct impact on our success, ensuring that our products not only meet but exceed customer expectations.

Job Description

JOB TITLE: Product Owner - Data

LOCATION: Chester, Halifax, Leeds or Manchester

HOURS: Full time

WORKING PATTERN: Hybrid, 40% (or two days) in one of our office hubs mentioned above

About Us:

As the UK's largest retail and commercial bank, Lloyds Banking Group has a footprint that touches nearly every household in the UK. That gives us a big responsibility to support the UK economy, and we have a clear strategy to put customers first - and achieve our vision of becoming the best bank for customers. We're an equal opportunity employer and deeply value diversity within our organisation.

Why not join our forward-thinking Consumer Lending team as we embark on a ground-breaking journey towards a data-driven future? We are seeking a hardworking Data Design Engineer to support our data transformation initiatives and contribute to the development of a modern data platform powered by consumer data products.

What Makes This Opportunity Unique

As a Product Owner within our Consumer Lending team, you'll be at the forefront of transforming the way we serve our customers. This is an outstanding opportunity to bring to bear your technical expertise and leadership skills to drive world-class solutions in a fast-paced, ambitious environment. You will have a direct impact on our success, ensuring that our products not only meet but exceed customer expectations.

Key Responsibilities

• Own and evolve the product backlog for data-driven initiatives within Consumer Lending, ensuring alignment with strategic goals and regulatory requirements.
• Collaborate closely with engineering and design within cross-functional teams to define, prioritise, and achieve product goals.
• Translate business goals and requirements into clear, prioritised user stories and acceptance criteria.
• Lead sprint planning and backlog refinement sessions, ensuring delivery remains on track against timelines.
• Act as the voice of the customer and business, balancing technical feasibility with commercial value.
• Supervise and report on delivery progress, risks, and dependencies across multiple squads.
• Coordinate the successful implementation of product features and improvements.

What We’re Looking For

• Proven experience as a Product Owner, ideally working within a role in a data-rich environment or similar.
• Solid understanding of data engineering concepts, including data pipelines, cloud platforms (e.g. GCP, Hadoop, Spark), and data governance.
• Proven ability to drive delivery in agile environments, handling contending priorities and tight deadlines.
• Excellent collaborator leadership skills, with the ability to influence across technical and non-technical teams.
• Experience working with cross-functional squads, including data designers, engineers, and customer journey managers.
• Ability to succeed in a fast-paced environment and balance multiple priorities.

Desirable

• Familiarity with Consumer Lending products and regulatory frameworks.
• Experience with tools such as JIRA, Confluence, and data visualisation platforms.

About working for us

Our ambition is to be the leading UK business for diversity, equity and inclusion supporting our customers, colleagues and communities, and we’re committed to creating an environment in which everyone can thrive, learn and develop.

We were one of the first major organisations to set goals on diversity in senior roles, create a menopause health package, and a dedicated Working with Cancer Initiative.

We offer reasonable workplace adjustments for colleagues with disabilities, including flexibility in office attendance, location and working patterns. And, as a Disability Confident Leader, we guarantee interviews for a fair and proportionate number of applicants who meet the minimum criteria for the role with a disability, long-term health or neurodivergent condition through the Disability Confident Scheme.

We provide reasonable adjustments throughout the recruitment process to reduce or remove barriers. Just let us know what you need.

We also offer a wide-ranging benefits package, which includes:

• A generous pension contribution of up to 15%
• An annual bonus award, subject to Group performance
• Share schemes including free shares
• Benefits you can adapt to your lifestyle, such as discounted shopping
• 30 days’ holiday, with bank holidays on top

Want to do amazing work, that’s interesting and makes a difference to millions of people? Join our journey!

At Lloyds Banking Group, we're driven by a clear purpose; to help Britain prosper. Across the Group, our colleagues are focused on making a difference to customers, businesses and communities. With us you'll have a key role to play in shaping the financial services of the future, whilst the scale and reach of our Group means you'll have many opportunities to learn, grow and develop.

We keep your data safe. So, we'll only ever ask you to provide confidential or sensitive information once you have formally been invited along to an interview or accepted a verbal offer to join us which is when we run our background checks. We'll always explain what we need and why, with any request coming from a trusted Lloyds Banking Group person.

We're focused on creating a values-led culture and are committed to building a workforce which reflects the diversity of the customers and communities we serve. Together we’re building a truly inclusive workplace where all of our colleagues have the opportunity to make a real difference.