Product Owner – Data Delivery

About the job

Ikano Bank’s Digital organization is on an exciting transformation journey to advance our mindsets, ways of working and solutions. Our vision is to establish user friendly digital capabilities for the many people by unlocking the full potential of our co-workers and partners.

At Ikano Bank, we create possibilities for a better living by providing banking and financial services for the many. We do it with different perspectives, natural curiosity and long-term focus. A unique chance for greater responsibility and future opportunities. Let’s achieve great things together!

As Product Owner at Ikano Bank, you have a key role in the success of product delivery in the agile release train. You work closely with business stakeholders to create efficient solutions. You are responsible for maximizing overall value delivered by your agile team by working together to deliver the committed objectives for each PI and to ensure a working solution. You create and maintain your team’s backlog and understand features, are responsible for creating and understanding backlog items and are able to scope, descope and make priority decisions.

As a Product Owner for the Data Delivery area you will be creating and expanding our data solutions that will supply the bank with the data that will fuel our digital transformation. The solutions covered ranges from traditional data warehouse solutions for reporting / BI to more modern solutions (data lakes and streams) to handle real time reporting and advanced analytics.

Key responsibilities

• Understand Ikano Bank’s strategic initiatives, by closely working with Product Management, to help deliver products that helps the Bank in achieving the desired objectives
• Drive product development in your agile team of dedicated engineers and designers
• Hold and articulate the Product Vision/Roadmap to the agile team
• Create, maintain and prioritize the team backlog
• Understand and provide input to the Product Roadmap
• Build trust and effective relationships with relevant stakeholders
• Take an active part in the PO Community of Practice
• Use rapid cycles to iterate and learn
• Review and accept delivered user stories
• Co-define Definition of Done together with the agile team
• Interact with 3rd parties with regards to technical integrations and support of the same

Key Qualifications

• 3-5 years’ experience as Product Owner or Product Manager preferably within financial services industry
• Experience and knowledge of agile frameworks, preferably SAFe
• Strong technical leadership, analytical and problem-solving skills
• Excellent communication skills (written and verbal), including facilitation
• Strong stakeholder management skills
• In dept experience in Datawarehousing and BI.
• Experience in provisioning of data through modern technology (data lakes, etc)
• Experience within / knowledge of data architecture and technical architecture for Data & Analytics

We offer you

Operating at the centre of events, you will have an active role in various decision forums, represent us to external partners and create a great foundation for further development. This position is more than what meets the eye. You will get the chance to push boundaries and influence your daily work. All as part of a caring and open culture where we live our values, work hard, have fun and operate with a long-term perspective. Because here opportunities arise, and growth follows.

Are you the one for Ikano?

We want our customers, partners and co-workers to choose us for what we stand for, what we deliver and how we deliver it. Three basic values guide our work: common sense and simplicity, working together, and daring to be different. These values should feel natural to you.

Join us now – together we will find a better way

This position is a full-time employment, located in Malmö. More information about the position can be provided by Chetana Kulkarni, chetana.kulkarni@ikano.se

We look forward to receiving your application with a CV and cover letter prior to 30th of September. Please note that we are unable to accept applications via email.

About us

Ikano Bank creates possibilities for better living by offering simple, fair and affordable services, enabling a healthy economy for the many people. Our offer includes savings and loan products for consumers, sales support services for retailers, and leasing and factoring solutions for businesses. We conduct business in Sweden, Denmark, Finland, Norway, the UK, Poland, Germany and Austria. Ikano Bank is a part of the Ikano Group, an international group of companies active within banking, real estate, production, insurance, data analytics and retail, who owns 51 % of the Bank. Ingka Group, a strategic partner in the IKEA franchise system, operating 378 IKEA stores in 31 countries, owns the remaining 49 % of Ikano Bank. Ikano Bank’s head office is located in Malmö, Sweden and the company is registered in Älmhult, Sweden where the business was once founded.