Tech Product Owner for Real Estate business, ensuring systems are performing to expected standards, day to day operations and delivering change projects. Key SME role for business area identified as strategic growth of company. Collaborative working with technology and business teams to solve problems and implement changes.
How you'll spend your time...
* You will be the Tech Product Owner responsible for ensuring that applications used by the Real Estate business, such as MRI Horizon, Qube and PMX are fit for purpose which includes managing upgrades, solving BAU issues and implementing strategic enhancements. This requires the person to establish strong relationships with the business to precisely understand their requirements and map them to technical changes.
* Key subject matter expertise role, often requiring facilitating and / or actively contributing in large in-person working groups to gathering and documenting requirements for projects such as client on-boardings or business integrations, that may not be fully formed and the technical solution often complex.
* Understanding of business processes and applications to troubleshoot, analyse data and reports to provide resolution. Ownership of product change backlog, running steering and prioritisation meetings with senior business stakeholders and working with multiple vendors, external and internal teams for delivering the change per expected standards.
* Day to day operations management, working with developers validating change deployments, analysing and solving incidents and issues for business to work effectively. Advise users of best practices and how to best use applications. Engaging with various cross functional teams within tech and wider organisation, with good communication and influencing skills to gather teams and work collaboratively towards common goals.
* Identifying solution design and supporting implementation of tech and business systems and processes that bring efficiencies, adherence to standards / controls and mitigating risks. Oversight of vendor deliverables and coordination between business and vendor for troubleshooting issues and delivering solutions.
* Enthusiastic and proactive who is willing to learn and improve to be part of the Global Alts Asset management technology team. Opportunity to expand technology and business knowledge, working closely with business partners to develop within an organisation that encourages development and independence.
* Part of a larger Global Alts Tech team, collaboratively helping each other and business grow, creating value added solutions and solving complex problems with innovative and creative design options that most fits the business needs.
To be successful in this role you will have...
* Extensive experience in developing tech solutions coordinating full lifecycle.
* Proven experience in supporting business applications.
* Good knowledge of SQL, and can analyse and write reports.
* Ability to identify solutions and problem solve.
* Good analytical, documenting and communication skills.
If you also had this, it would be great…
* Asset Management or Financial Services experience.
* Having used Change Management (JIRA, Confluence) and Ticketing tools (Service Now).
* Experience in Python and reporting tools like PowerBI.
* Working experience MRI products or other Real Estate applications.
About Columbia Threadneedle Investments
Working at Columbia Threadneedle Investments you'll find growth and career opportunities across all of our businesses.
We're intentionally built to help you succeed. Our reach is expansive with a global team of 2,500 people working together. Our expertise is diverse with more than 650 investment professionals sharing global perspectives across all major asset classes and markets. Our clients have access to a broad array of investment strategies, and we have the capability to create bespoke solutions matched to clients' specific requirements.
Columbia Threadneedle is a people business and we recognise that our success is due to our talented people, who bring diversity of thought, complementary skills and capabilities. We are committed to providing an inclusive workplace that supports the diversity of our employees and reflects our broader communities and client-base.
We appreciate that work-life balance is an important factor for many when considering their next move so please discuss any flexible working requirements directly with your recruiter.
Full-Time/Part-Time
Full time
Worker Sub Type
Permanent
Job Family Group
Technology
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