Senior Product Owner - Engineering Platform

Dublin

What is the opportunity?

Bank of Ireland is on a journey to transform how it delivers digital services, and through its DevOps Centre of Excellence has begun rolling out an engineering platform across the group. On the back of a significant investment in our capabilities, we have a new role in our team for a visionary Senior Product Owner to lead the vision and execution of our engineering platform.

This role is central to delivering scalable, secure and resilient platform capabilities that empower development teams across the Bank. You will be responsible for defining and prioritising platform features that improve developer experience, reduce time to market, and ensure compliance in a highly regulated financial environment

In this Role, you will

Own the product roadmap for the internal engineering platform, aligning with enterprise technology and business strategy!

Define and run the product backlog for platform components such as CI/CD pipelines, container orchestration, developer portals, observability tooling and infrastructure automation
Collaborate with engineering, architecture, security and risk teams to ensure platform services are secure and robust
Drive adoption of platform capabilities across engineering teams by delivering intuitive, self-service and hight-quality solutions
Translate sophisticated technical needs into clear, actionable user stories and acceptance criteria
Gather feedback continuously from users (developers, testers, SREs) to evolve platform features and usability

Essential Skills and Experience

Proven experience in product ownership or product management, preferably in enterprise technology environments
Deep understanding of platform engineering concepts, include DevOps, CI/CD pipelines, Infrastructure as Code, containerisation (Kubernetes) and cloud platforms such as Azure or AWS
Experience working in a highly regulated environment such as banking, financial services or insurance
Ability to define and drive platform strategies across multiple teams and partners
Strong analytical, communication and partner management skill

Essential Qualifications

3rd level degree in a similar subject area

More About The team

Our IT Engineering & Delivery teams are responsible for designing, building, testing and delivering the technology that powers Bank of Ireland. Our teams, based out of Dublin, Ireland and Belfast, and Bristol, UK enable the bank's digital transformation by modernising platforms, improving system resilience and accelerating software delivery.

Our focus spans cloud adoption, DevSecOps, automation, cybersecurity and engineering standard processes - ensuring secure, scalable and high-performing solutions.

We are fully embracing new ways-of-working such as Scaled Agile and from core banking systems to innovative customer-facing applications, we deliver technology that drives efficiency, compliance and offers the best customer-experience.

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Why work with us?

The Bank of Ireland company culture prioritises work-life balance with an opportunity for flexible working, along with 23 days annual leave and excellent pension contributions. Family can mean different things to different people; we offer 6 months paid maternity leave, an innovative fertility and surrogacy policy and working parent supports.

Your wellbeing is important to us; we have an employee assistance program, WebDoctor and financial wellbeing coaches available. We also encourage and support staff to pursue educational and professional qualifications to grow and enhance your career!

Key Competencies

Agile - Self
Agile - Leader
Amplify Capability - Leader
Customer Focused - Leader
Manage Risk - Leader

Where Agency assistance is required Bank of Ireland Recruitment Team will engage directly with suppliers. Unsolicited CVs / profiles supplied to Bank of Ireland by Recruitment Agencies will not be accepted for this role.

We`re on a continuous journey to build an inclusive and diverse workplace. We welcome applications from people of all backgrounds, lived experience, abilities and perspectives. We provide reasonable accommodations at every stage of our recruitment process for disabilities, neurodivergence or medical conditions. If you require an accommodation please complete this form and one of our recruitment team members will be in touch via email. Any information provided will be treated as confidential within the recruitment team and used only for the purpose of determining and providing appropriate accommodations for the application and recruitment process.