Product Owner at L&G – Asset Management in London, England, United Kingdom
- Company: L&G – Asset Management
- Location: London, England, United Kingdom
- Posted: Sep 18, 2026
- Type: Full-time
- Experience: 6+ years
Overview
Legal & General is looking for an experienced Technical Product Owner to lead a strategic Data Streaming Platform within Data Operations. The platform moves operational data from a range of source systems into the Retail Data Hub and other strategic data platforms. It reduces pressure on legacy tech…
Job description
- Legal & General is looking for an experienced Technical Product Owner to lead a strategic Data Streaming Platform within Data Operations.
- The platform moves operational data from a range of source systems into the Retail Data Hub and other strategic data platforms. It reduces pressure on legacy technology, makes information available through a more resilient and scalable technology stack, and supports important digital customer and business services.
- This is a dedicated technical Product Owner role. You will be accountable for the product’s direction, roadmap, priorities and delivery outcomes, working closely with engineers, architects, DevOps colleagues and senior stakeholders. You will not need to be a hands-on engineer, but you will need the technical understanding and credibility to lead complex platform delivery.
- The immediate agenda includes improving platform stability, onboarding additional data sources, balancing technical debt with new capability and positioning the product for continued growth.
Responsibilities
- Defining and communicating the platform vision, strategy and roadmap
- Owning and prioritising the technical product backlog
- Improving platform stability, resilience, scalability and operational performance
- Driving the onboarding of new data sources and platform consumers
- Balancing new features, technical debt, modernisation, risk and regulatory priorities
- Leading engineers and technical delivery colleagues through clear priorities and outcomes
- Influencing senior stakeholders and creating alignment around investment and delivery decisions
- Defining and communicating measures of platform adoption, performance and business value
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 within engineering or technical delivery teams
- Experience managing technical backlogs and balancing competing delivery priorities
- Confidence influencing senior stakeholders and making evidence-based decisions
- Understanding of platform resilience, service performance and technical sustainability
- Ability to work independently while building alignment across multiple teams
- Clear communication, sound judgement and a collaborative leadership style
Skills
Required
- Technical product ownership
- Agile methodologies
- Backlog management
- Stakeholder influence
- Platform resilience and performance
- Independent work and collaboration
- Communication and leadership
Benefits
- Whatever your role, we reward performance and behaviour with a package that looks after all the things that are important to you. Here are some of the benefits we offer:
- The opportunity to participate in our annual, performance -related bonus plan and valuable share schemes
- Generous pension contribution
- Life assurance
- Healthcare Plan (permanent employees only)
- At least 25 days holiday, plus public holidays, 26 days after 2 years’ service. There’s also the option to buy and sell holiday
- Competitive family leave
- Participate in our electric car scheme, which offers employees the option to hire a brand-new electric car through tax efficient salary sacrifice (permanent employees only)
- There are many discounts we offer – both for our own products and at a range of high street stores and online
- We’re creating net‑zero carbon workplaces by 2030 by investing in our sustainable, modern offices across the UK, all designed to bring people together and elevate the in‑person experience
About L&G – Asset Management
Legal & General (L&G) is a leading UK financial services group and major global investor. We’ve been safeguarding people’s financial futures since 1836, and strive to build a better society, while improving the lives of our customers and creating value for shareholders. We are one of the world’s largest asset managers and provide powerful asset origination capabilities. Together, these underpin our retirement and protection solutions: we are an international player in pension risk transfer, in UK and US life insurance, and in UK workplace pensions and retirement income. Our Retail business supports customers throughout their lives, to help them save, plan, protect and enjoy retirement. We’re a leading provider of retirement and protection solutions. We aim to support our c.12.8 million policyholders and workplace members throughout their lifelong financial journeys. We focus on helping the customers of today and tomorrow achieve better long-term outcomes. We either talk with them directly or work with intermediaries and employers to meet their needs. We use the latest technology to connect with them quickly, efficiently and wherever possible in highly personalised ways.