Portfolio Product Owner

Salary: £60,000 - 80,000 per year

Requirements

• Experience owning software products and managing Agile development backlogs
• Understanding of cyber security, secure information exchange, cloud or information assurance
• Technically curious and able to build knowledge quickly
• Experience within Defence, Government, National Security or another highly regulated technology environment would be valuable
• Strong transferable experience will also be considered
• Comfortable communicating with software engineers, technical specialists, customers and senior business leaders
• Credible, collaborative and able to bring people together around clear product goals and priorities
• Enjoy taking ownership, solving problems and seeing work progress from an initial requirement through to a delivered product

Responsibilities

• Operate as a Hybrid Product Owner across Agile and non-Agile environments
• Own products from defining product goals and shaping requirements through to prioritising the backlog and supporting engineering decisions
• Work closely with engineering to translate high-level portfolio requirements into clear, actionable requirements and goals
• Own and continuously manage the product backlog, ensuring priorities are understood and progress is visible
• Keep delivery aligned with the wider portfolio roadmap, timescales and budgets
• Own the end-to-end release process, coordinating product requirements, engineering activity, documentation, implementation and deployment
• Accept completed releases and communicate updates across the wider business
• Present products and their benefits to customers, understand customer needs and gather feedback
• Use customer insights to help shape and prioritise future development
• Work with customers to develop and manage customer-specific backlogs where required
• Contribute to quarterly delivery plans, forecasts and costs
• Work with the wider portfolio team to maintain a coherent roadmap
• Monitor third-party and supply-chain changes that could affect products or their components
• Champion the products by contributing to product collateral, use cases and market messaging
• Bring insight from customers, competitors, partners and suppliers back into product strategy

Technologies

• Cloud
• Product Owner
• Security

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We are a technology organisation working across cyber security, secure information exchange, cloud technologies and national security. This is a remote role with fortnightly visits to the office in Nottinghamshire, offering a salary of up to £80k. We welcome diverse applicants and are dedicated to treating all applicants with dignity and respect, regardless of background.

last updated 35 week of 2026