Product Owner – Card Payments 12 month Contract in Hanger Hill

Octopus Computer Associates; Winchester; Hybrid; GBP 100,000 - 125,000; Part time

Job summary

A leading technology firm is seeking an experienced Product Owner for a 12-month contract in Hampshire. This hybrid role involves driving key regulatory and compliance initiatives within the payments industry. The ideal candidate will have a proven track record in Agile/Scrum environments, managing product backlogs, and excellent stakeholder management skills. An immediate start is available with an attractive day rate.

Qualifications

• Proven experience as a Product Owner in an Agile/Scrum environment.
• Strong skills in user story writing and backlog management.
• Confident communicator with strong stakeholder management ability.

Responsibilities

• Own and prioritise the product backlog and write clear user stories.
• Work closely with Scrum teams across multiple sprint cycles.
• Collaborate with stakeholders across compliance, regulatory, and product groups.

Skills

Payments / card industry experience

User story writing

Backlog management

JIRA

SQL skills

Stakeholder management

Job description

Product Owner – Card Payments 12 month Contract

Hampshire (Hybrid: 3 days remote / 2 days on-site)
Up to £400 per day MAX | Inside IR35
Immediate Start

The Opportunity

Our client, a major player in the payments industry, is urgently seeking an experienced Product Owner to join their team. You’ll be driving key regulatory, compliance, and product enhancement initiatives, with a focus on applications and Online Dispute Resolution (ODR).

This is a fast-moving contract role where you’ll collaborate with onshore and offshore teams across Front-End and Back-End applications, and play a key part in a large-scale migration project (WebSphere to OCP).

What You’ll Do

• Own and prioritise the product backlog; write clear and actionable user stories.

• Work closely with Scrum teams across multiple sprint cycles (2-week PIs).

• Collaborate with stakeholders across compliance, regulatory, and product groups.

• Support validation and testing to ensure quality delivery.

• Engage with distributed development teams in Asia.

What We’re Looking For

• Payments / card industry experience (settlement, authorization, clearing).

• Proven experience as a Product Owner in an Agile/Scrum environment.

• Strong skills in user story writing, backlog management, and JIRA.

• Knowledge of the software development lifecycle and basic coding concepts.

• SQL skills (able to write simple queries).

• Background managing Front-End and Back-End applications.

• Confident communicator with strong stakeholder management ability.

Nice to Have:

• Agile Certification (e.g., CSPO).

• QA / validation exposure.