API Product Owner: Platform & Integration Leader

Quilter; Greater London; On-site; GBP 90,000 - 120,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Holiday 182 hours

Pension scheme

Private medical insurance

Life assurance 4x salary

Income protection

Healthcare cash plan

Flexible benefits

Job summary

Quilter plc is building a new API and Integration Platform. As API Product Owner you will own the “what and when” of that platform, turning the API strategy into a prioritised, deliverable backlog and ensuring each API we build delivers real value to integrating organisations.

You will work with the Lead Integration Platform Architect, engineering teams and a delivery partner, playing a central role in proving the platform through priority business use cases.

Qualifications

• Experience as a Product Owner or delivery-focused role.
• Experience managing backlogs in agile delivery environments.
• Strong understanding of API products, system integration and digital platforms.
• Experience owning API products including API lifecycle, versioning, developer experience, and consumer onboarding.
• Familiarity with the Microsoft Azure ecosystem (Azure DevOps, Azure API Management) and modern API tooling (OpenAPI).
• Experience managing delivery dependencies on third‑party platform / SaaS providers (e.g. FNZ).
• Strong requirements gathering, analysis and prioritisation skills.
• Ability to translate business needs into clear deliverables and user stories.
• Strong understanding of customer outcomes and value‑driven delivery.
• Experience working within a regulated financial‑services environment would be advantageous.
• High levels of ownership, integrity and accountability.

Responsibilities

• Own and maintain the API product backlog using Agile Development methodologies.
• Translate product strategy into prioritised deliverables, user stories and outcomes.
• Work with stakeholders to gather, clarify and prioritise requirements.
• Ensure delivery teams understand priorities, objectives and expected outcomes.
• Support planning, refinement and prioritisation activities.
• Balance stakeholder demand against capacity, dependencies and strategic priorities.
• Work closely with Architecture, Security, and Engineering teams to deliver secure, resilient and high-quality API capabilities.
• Ensure delivered solutions support the intended customer, adviser and colleague outcomes.
• Monitor delivery progress and manage risks, issues and dependencies.
• Use feedback, usage data and stakeholder insight to improve products and services.
• Promote API reuse and adoption across internal and external consumers.
• Define success measures and use data and insight to assess performance and value delivered.
• Support release planning, implementation and continuous improvement activities.
• Help identify opportunities to use AI, automation and emerging technologies to improve delivery effectiveness and business outcomes.
• Ensure AI-related requirements, risks and dependencies are appropriately considered during delivery.
• Build awareness, engagement and adoption of API capabilities across the organisation.
• Balance short-term priorities with long-term platform and business objectives.
• Communicate priorities, progress, risks and decisions to stakeholders.
• Own the API-as-a-product model. Treating internal and third-party consumers as customers, manage the API catalogue, and drive reuse, adoption and self-service.
• Prioritise and sequence delivery of priority use cases with third parties and AR firms to prove the platform.
• Manage the product relationship and delivery dependencies with FNZ and other platform providers, whose API roadmaps gate Quilter’s delivery.
• Own API developer experience — documentation, onboarding and sandbox — for internal and external consumers.
• Partner closely with the Lead Integration Platform Architect on standards, API contracts and route-to-live.
• Own API product metrics — adoption, availability, response time, time-to-integrate and reliability.

Skills

Product Owner

Backlog management

API products

API lifecycle

Azure DevOps

Azure API Management

OpenAPI

Stakeholder management

Data-driven decision making

Prioritisation

Tools

Azure DevOps

Azure API Management

OpenAPI

Job description

Quilter plc is building a new API and Integration Platform. As API Product Owner you will own the “what and when” of that platform, turning the API strategy into a prioritised, deliverable backlog and ensuring each API we build delivers real value to integrating organisations.

You will work with the Lead Integration Platform Architect, engineering teams and a delivery partner, playing a central role in proving the platform through priority business use cases.