Portfolio Product Owner

Salary: £80,000 - 100,000 per year

Requirements:

• Proven Product Owner (or equivalent backlog ownership) experience, ideally with secure information exchange, interoperability or cloud.
• Knowledge of the portfolios solution types, or IT/information assurance, and the ability to deepen that knowledge quickly.
• Experience—or the capacity to learn fast—in defence, government or national security markets.
• Clear communication with architects, engineers, senior leaders and customers; productive internal and external relationships.
• Ability to obtain and hold SC clearance.

Responsibilities:

• Convert portfolio and customer intent into ordered, estimable backlog items so engineering can deliver agreed goals every sprint and quarter.
• Plan and accept releases, including documentation, deployment and marketing updates, so products ship on time and stakeholders know what changed.
• Keep product goals, progress, timescales and spend visible to the team, Head of Portfolio and customers, including customer-specific backlogs where needed.
• Maintain an accurate bill of materials and act on third-party and end-of-life notices so the portfolio stays supportable and compliant.
• Produce quarterly delivery updates and plans that the Portfolio Manager can roll into a coherent, costed portfolio view.
• Gather customer, prospect and field feedback and apply it to prioritisation so investment tracks the roadmap and return.
• Champion products with use cases and collateral and facilitate engineering estimates so commitments stay realistic.

Technologies:

• Cloud
• Marketing
• Product Owner
• Security

More:

We exist so organisations can exchange the information that keeps infrastructure and services running securely and without compromise. We are seeking a Portfolio Product Owner to turn strategy into shipped capability across backlogs, releases and bills of materials for our secure information exchange products, serving defence, government and critical national infrastructure customers. You will report to the Head of Portfolio and work as a hybrid Product Owner for Agile teams and requirements manager for non-Agile work. The role is location-independent, with travel to our offices and customers, and involves partnering with Technical Architects, Delivery Managers, engineering, marketing and customer-facing teams. The hours are 37 per week. The role offers the opportunity to shape high-assurance, cross-domain information exchange products and provides hybrid PO and portfolio lifecycle ownership with line of sight from roadmap to release.

last updated 34 week of 2026