Technical Product Owner (Data Streaming)

Location: Cardiff, United Kingdom — hybrid

Company

Legal & General is a UK financial services group and global investor providing retirement, protection, pension, and insurance solutions.

What you will do

• Define and communicate the vision, strategy, roadmap, priorities, and delivery outcomes for a strategic data streaming platform.
• Own and prioritise the technical product backlog.
• Improve platform stability, resilience, scalability, operational performance, and long-term technical sustainability.
• Drive the onboarding of additional data sources and platform consumers.
• Balance new capabilities, technical debt, modernisation, risk, and regulatory priorities.
• Lead engineers and technical delivery colleagues while aligning senior stakeholders around investment and delivery decisions.

Requirements

• Proven experience owning a technical IT product, platform, or shared technology service.
• Accountability for product direction, roadmap, prioritisation, and delivery outcomes.
• Strong Agile experience in engineering or technical delivery teams.
• Experience managing technical backlogs and balancing competing delivery priorities.
• Understanding of platform resilience, service performance, and technical sustainability.
• Clear communication, sound judgement, independent working skills, and a collaborative leadership style.

Culture & Benefits

• Hybrid working with flexibility, including discussion of part-time work and job shares where practical.
• Annual performance-related bonus plan and share schemes.
• Generous pension contribution, life assurance, and a healthcare plan for permanent employees.
• At least 25 days of holiday plus public holidays, increasing to 26 days after two years, with holiday purchase and sale options.
• Family leave, an electric car salary-sacrifice scheme for permanent employees, and employee discounts.
• Inclusive culture with opportunities for collaboration, development, and career growth.