API Product Owner — Platform & Integrations

Quilter plc; Greater London, Southampton; On-site; GBP 90,000 - 115,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Holiday: 26 days annual leave

Pension Scheme

Private Medical Insurance

Life Assurance

Income Protection

Healthcare Cash Plan

Job summary

Quilter plc is building a new API and Integration Platform. The API Product Owner will translate the API strategy into a prioritised backlog and ensure each API delivers value to integrating organisations, working with engineers and architects to prove the platform through priority business use cases.

You will manage demand, define priorities and maintain a clear backlog aligned to organisational priorities, delivering capabilities that meet business and user needs.

Qualifications

• Experience as Product Owner or delivery-focused role.
• Experience managing and prioritising backlogs within agile delivery environments.
• Strong understanding of API products, system integration and digital platforms.
• Experience owning API products specifically (not just software features) 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. wealth-platform providers such as FNZ).
• Experience working closely with engineering, architecture and delivery teams.
• Strong requirements gathering, analysis and prioritisation skills.
• Ability to translate business needs into clear deliverables and user stories.
• Understanding of API lifecycle management and developer onboarding.
• Experience delivering in regulated financial services environments preferred.

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.
• Define success measures and use data and insight to assess performance and value delivered.
• Support release planning, implementation and continuous improvement activities.
• Balance short-term priorities with long-term platform and business objectives.

Skills

Product backlog management

Agile delivery

API product management

Stakeholder management

Requirements gathering

Data-driven decision making

Regulated environment understanding

Communication

Prioritisation

Tools

Azure DevOps

Azure API Management

OpenAPI

API contracts

Job description

Quilter plc is building a new API and Integration Platform. The API Product Owner will translate the API strategy into a prioritised backlog and ensure each API delivers value to integrating organisations, working with engineers and architects to prove the platform through priority business use cases.

You will manage demand, define priorities and maintain a clear backlog aligned to organisational priorities, delivering capabilities that meet business and user needs.