Data Product Owner: Networks

Job Description

Why this role matters

This role acts as the bridge between our complex engineering capabilities and our business stakeholders. Our Data POs own the vision and define the roadmap to turn the data we collect into better outcomes for BT and for our customers. You’ll own the ‘what’, ‘when’ and ‘why’ for your team, translating high level ambitions into a prioritised backlog of work that delivers incremental and iterative value - spanning data ingestion, modelling, quality, exposure and downstream consumption.

This is a great opportunity, it might be that you are an engineer seeking a new challenge or passionate about using data to drive change. You be adept at influencing stakeholders and you'll have autonomy to drive change in turn, making things better for our customers.

This role can be based in Belfast, Birmingham, Bristol, Manchester or London. Our hybrid working model means you are expected to be in the office 3 days per week.

You'll have the following responsibilities

• Own and articulate the product vision for a squad in the Networks Data and AI team; ensuring alignment to Networks and BT-wide strategy
• Maintain a prioritised roadmap aligned to business outcomes.
• Work closely with your business stakeholders to convert strategy into incrementally deliverable value via the data engineering squad.
• Shape asks into well defined requirements; manage expectations and proactively resolve conflicts.
• Work alongside the Principal Product Owner to resolve trade-offs to maintain delivery flow, bridging the gap between customer, business and tech considerations.
• Work alongside Principal Product Owner to develop measures to track and improve success metrics across delivery, adoption, data quality and benefits.
• Develop a deep understanding of our data using analytics techniques to identify new product opportunities with our data and ways to improve our existing products
• Use visualisation and story telling to bring our data to life & break down complex insights into meaningful interventions
• Actively seek opportunities to collaborate with and learn from other employees in our organization through internal networks, events and communities of practice.

You'll have the following skills and experience

Skills

A background in Telecomms or Networks is beneficial but not essential for this role.

To excel in this role, you should have:

• A passion to use data to drive innovation and transformation.
• A knack for turning complex technical problems into clean technical requirements.
• Ability to translate complex technical constraints into business friendly trade offs.
• Strong backlog management, prioritisation and decision making skills; balancing long-term innovation with immediate service needs.
• Credible communication and collaboration skills; capable of gaining enable alignment against product vision with stakeholders and engineering teams.
Technical & Data Expertise
• Proven track record of steering development from discovery to deployment and ongoing iteration at scale.
• Experience working with cloud data platforms (GCP, AWS), on prem platforms, and modern data pipelines an advantage.
• Familiarity with network domain data an advantage (e.g., Broadband, TV, Mobile, Fixed Voice, Network Telemetry).

Experience

Mandatory
• Proven experience in incremental product development within a data or software engineering environment.
• Demonstrated ability to manage complex technical backlogs.
• Strong stakeholder management across technical and non technical teams.
• Experience with agile delivery, prioritisation and iterative value release.

Preferred
• Previous experience in data related field; data engineering, architecture, analytics or science
• Industry Experience: Telecommunications

Benefits

• 10% on target bonus
• BT Pension scheme, minimum 5% Employee contribution, BT contribution 10%
• From January 2025, equal family leave: receive 18 weeks at full pay, 8 weeks at half pay and 26 weeks at the statutory rate. It’s for all parents, no matter how your family is made up.
• Enhanced women’s health support: including help with menopause symptoms, cancer screenings, period care and more.
• 25 days annual leave (not including bank holidays), increasing with service
• 24/7 private virtual GP appointments for UK colleagues
• 2 weeks carer’s leave
• World-class training and development opportunities
• Option to join BT Shares Saving schemes

Our leadership standards

Looking in:
Leading inclusively and Safely
I inspire and build trust through self-awareness, honesty and integrity.
Owning outcomes
I take the right decisions that benefit the broader organisation.

Looking out:
Delivering for the customer
I execute brilliantly on clear priorities that add value to our customers and the wider business.
Commercially savvy
I demonstrate strong commercial focus, bringing an external perspective to decision-making.

Looking to the future:
Growth mindset
I experiment and identify opportunities for growth for both myself and the organisation.
Building for the future
I build diverse future-ready teams where all individuals can be at their best.

About us

BT Group was the world’s first telco and our heritage in the sector is unrivalled. As home to several of the UK’s most recognised and cherished brands – BT, EE, Openreach and Plusnet, we have always played a critical role in creating the future, and we have reached an inflection point in the transformation of our business.

Over the next two years, we will complete the UK’s largest and most successful digital infrastructure project – connecting more than 25 million premises to full fibre broadband. Together with our heavy investment in 5G, we play a central role in revolutionising how people connect with each other.

While we are through the most capital-intensive phase of our fibre investment, meaning we can reward our shareholders for their commitment and patience, we are absolutely focused on how we organise ourselves in the best way to serve our customers in the years to come. This includes radical simplification of systems, structures, and processes on a huge scale. Together with our application of AI and technology, we are on a path to creating the UK’s best telco, reimagining the customer experience and relationship with one of this country’s biggest infrastructure companies.

Change on the scale we will all experience in the coming years is unprecedented. BT Group is committed to being the driving force behind improving connectivity for millions and there has never been a more exciting time to join a company and leadership team with the skills, experience, creativity, and passion to take this company into a new era.

A FEW POINTS TO NOTE:

Although these roles are listed as full-time, if you’re a job share partnership, work reduced hours, or any other way of working flexibly, please still get in touch.

We will also offer reasonable adjustments for the selection process if required, so please do not hesitate to inform us.

DON'T MEET EVERY SINGLE REQUIREMENT?

Studies have shown that women and people who are disabled, LGBTQ+, neurodiverse or from ethnic minority backgrounds are less likely to apply for jobs unless they meet every single qualification and criteria. We're committed to building a diverse, inclusive, and authentic workplace where everyone can be their best, so if you're excited about this role but your past experience doesn't align perfectly with every requirement on the Job Description, please apply anyway - you may just be the right candidate for this or other roles in our wider team.