Product Owner - Data Platforms

Product Owner - Data Platforms

• Lead the direction of a strategic data platform shaping enterprise wide capability


• Work with senior stakeholders to deliver meaningful, large scale data change


• Hybrid 80% homeworking and 20% from Stratford upon Avon

About the role

As a Product Owner – Data Platforms at NFU Mutual, you will lead the development and delivery of the Shared Data Platform roadmap. You will work across the organisation to identify, prioritise and deliver new capabilities aligned to business priorities, ensuring the platform supports strategic data ambitions.

You will provide subject matter expertise across data platform usage, guiding how data is leveraged and protected within change activity. Working closely with stakeholders, you will influence decisions, manage dependencies and ensure alignment to the wider data vision.

You will oversee the ongoing performance of the platform, embedding effective processes to manage backlogs, prioritise enhancements and support operational delivery. You will also contribute to continuous improvement by identifying opportunities to enhance efficiency, services and ways of working.

This is a key role within a collaborative data community, where you will build strong relationships, provide consultancy and drive best practice adoption across the business.

This role is based in our Tiddington Head Office, just outside Stratford-Upon-Avon. However, we understand how important a positive work-life balance is, so to help you give your best, we offer great facilities when you want to be in an office environment and support to work up to 80% of your hours from home.

About you

You are a strategic and collaborative Product Owner who builds strong relationships and influences at all levels. You communicate clearly, think critically and bring a strong sense of accountability. You work confidently across complex environments, resolving challenges and driving progress while maintaining focus on business value. You lead through collaboration, engage stakeholders effectively and bring commercial awareness to decision making.

To join NFU Mutual, you’ll also bring

• Product ownership experience within complex, cross functional environments


• Data platform strategy and roadmap management capability


• Experience across data architecture, engineering, modelling and management


• Agile delivery with strong prioritisation and backlog management experience


• Knowledge of Azure and Snowflake data technologies

Qualifications

• Educated to degree level or equivalent in a technical or numerical subject or significant equivalent experience – Essential


• Holds an appropriate industry certification such as Microsoft Azure or Certified Data Management Professional – Essential

At NFU Mutual, we support an inclusive workplace and value all the differences that make us unique. We celebrate the creativity and innovation that comes from diverse perspectives and experiences and share a common vision of doing the right thing for our customers and employees.

We recognise that some candidates may experience barriers during the recruitment process. So, we encourage candidates to discuss any adjustments or accommodations they need to be the best they can be throughout our recruitment process.

We're proud to be a Disability Confident Employer, a Race at Work and Women in Finance Charter signatory and welcome applications from people of all backgrounds, regardless of age, ethnicity, disability, neurodiversity, gender, religion, marital status, sexual orientation, or socioeconomic background.

Benefits and Rewards

When you join our team, you can expect a supportive culture and an attractive range of rewards and benefits including:

• Salary – up to £95,000 dependent on experience


• Annual bonus (up to 25% of salary)


• Contributory pension scheme, up to 20%, including your 8% contribution


• 28 days annual leave + bank holidays + buy/sell/save holiday trading scheme


• A Family Friendly policy that helps you balance your work and family responsibilities


• Private medical insurance + options to add family members


• Access to savings at High Street brands, travel and supermarkets


• £20 contribution to a monthly gym membership – subject to T&Cs


• Health and wellbeing plan - cashback for dentist, opticians, physio and more


• Employee Volunteering - volunteer in the community for one day each year


• Unlimited access to Refer a Friend £500 bonus scheme


• Life Assurance cover of 4 x salary


• Employee discounts of 15% on a range of NFU Mutual insurance policies.


• Salary sacrifice employee car scheme - subject to eligibility

Working at NFU Mutual

We’re one of the UK’s leading general insurance and financial services organisations, and for over 110 years we’ve put our customers at the heart of everything we do. Our people are just as important to us, so we’re proud to be recognised as “a great place to work”.

Our Gallup Exceptional Workplace 2026 award was not only awarded with Distinction, but it also marked us as the first UK based company to earn a Gallup Exceptional Workplace award for eleven consecutive years. We’ve also been consistently recognised by Glassdoor. We appeared in the Glassdoor Best Places to Work UK list in 2023, 2024 and 2026 — and in 2026, we were the highest ranked insurance business in the UK, highlighting our strong employee experience and the positive feedback our people share on the platform.

Additionally, we were named in the LinkedIn Top Companies 2026 list of “Best midsize employers to grow your career in the UK”, and we’ve been certified as a UK Top Employer by the Top Employers Institute in 2023, 2024, 2025 and 2026.
We offer a supportive and empowering culture where people are inspired to perform, given opportunities to grow, and recognised and rewarded for their contribution. Our people are proud to work for a company that respects them and their communities, and they trust us to be financially sustainable—so we’re successful now and in the future.