Product Owner Data & Analytics Delivery

As a Product Owner in Data & Analytics Delivery, you will be responsible for executing on the product vision in the Data & Analytics Delivery area. You will be part of Ikano Bank, where we create possibilities for a better living by providing banking and fina             ncial services. We do it with different perspectives, natural curiosity and long-term focus. A unique chance for greater responsibility and future opportunities. Let’s achieve great things together.

Let’s make a difference in finance for the many people

As a Product Owner for Data & Analytics Delivery at Ikano Bank, you have a key role in the success of product delivery in the Agile Release Train (ART). You will be creating and expanding our data solutions that will supply the bank with the data that will fuel our digital transformation. The solutions covered ranges from traditional data warehouse solutions for reporting / BI to more modern solutions (data lakes and streams) to handle real-time reporting and advanced analytics.
You work closely with business stakeholders to create efficient solutions. You are responsible for maximizing overall value delivered by your agile team by working together to deliver the committed objectives for each PI and to ensure a working solution. You create and maintain your team’s backlog and understand features, are responsible for creating and understanding backlog items and drive scoping, descoping, and priority decisions.  

Key responsibilities include:

• Understand Ikano’s strategic initiatives, closely working with Product Management, help deliver products that supports the Bank in achieving the desired objectives
• Support to drive product development to build end-to-end solutions with a team of dedicated engineers and designers by acting as a Product Owner within an agile team or teams
• Responsible for creating and understanding user stories and acceptance criteria
• Understand and provide input to the Product Roadmap
• Build trust and effective relationships with relevant stakeholders
• Understand pain points and problems and address them in a timely fashion.
• Maintain, owns and prioritize the agile team’s Backlog (scope, priorities) in JIRA
• Contributes to the program scope, and manage team scope by collaborating with Product Managers, Business Analysts, Architects, agile teams and other Product Owners
• Define the sprint goals and drive the sprint backlog creation with the team
• Review and accept delivered stories
• Co-define Definition of Done together with the agile team
• Interact with 3rd parties with regards to technical integrations and support of the same
• Participates in agile ceremonies
• Prepares for PI Planning from team perspective
• Keeps track of progress for ongoing PI Planning, from scope perspective

We offer you

Operating at the center of events, you will have an active role in executing on the product vision together with the development teams, the other Product Owners, Business Analysts and Solution Architects. This position is more than what meets the eye. You will get the chance to push boundaries and influence your daily work. All as part of a caring and open culture where we live our values, work hard, have fun and operate with a long-term perspective. Because here opportunities arise and growth follows.

Are you the one for Ikano?

We are looking for an inspiring and authentic team player with a strategic mindset and a comprehensive understanding of Data and Analytics.

We believe that we are looking for someone with the below background:

• Several years of experience as Product Owner preferably within financial services industry.
• Experience in Data warehousing / other types of data provisioning, BI and Data Governance
• Experience and knowledge of Agile frameworks, preferably SAFe
• Strong technical leadership, analytical and problem-solving skills
• Excellent English communication skills (written and verbal), including facilitation
• Strong stakeholder management skills
• Experience within / knowledge of data architecture and technical components for Data & Analytics
• You have a passion and drive to work with technologies in a team-oriented environment.
• You are organized with strong time-management skills.

We want our customers, partners and co-workers to choose us for what we stand for, what we deliver and how we deliver it.

Join us now – together we will find a better way

In this role you will report to the Data & Analytics Delivery Manager and will be based in Malmö.

Send your application before 2025-10-09. More information can be given by Filip Franck, through e-mail [email protected].

About Ikano Bank (publ)

Ikano Bank creates possibilities for better living by offering simple, fair, and affordable services, enabling a healthy economy for the many people and businesses. Its offer includes savings and loan products for consumers, sales support services for retailers, and leasing and factoring solutions for businesses. Ikano Bank operates in Sweden, Denmark, Finland, Norway, the UK, Poland, Germany and Austria, and is a part of Ingka Group. Ikano Bank’s head office is located in Malmö, Sweden and the company is registered in Älmhult, Sweden where the business was once founded.