Senior Payments Platform Lead - Vision & Delivery (Hybrid)

Skipton Building Society; Skipton; Hybrid; GBP 80,000 - 110,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Annual discretionary bonus scheme

25 days standard annual leave plus (r

Job summary

Skipton Building Society is seeking a Senior Product Owner - Payments to own the Payments Platform, shaping vision, roadmap and performance across member, colleague and supplier journeys. The role is hybrid, with three days a week in the Skipton office and two days remote.

You'll collaborate across product, engineering, operations, finance, risk and architecture to improve payment outcomes, drive resilience, Open Banking, ISO 20022 and risk controls while balancing today’s needs with tomorrow’s

Qualifications

• Experience owning or materially shaping a complex technology platform, product or critical enterprise capability.
• Strong understanding of payments, financial services technology or a regulated, high availability environment.
• Experience creating multi-year roadmaps balancing customer value, risk and modernisation.
• Ability to connect legacy complexity with future architecture using clear service boundaries and APIs.
• Leadership and influencing skills across engineering, operations, finance, risk, security, architecture and supplier teams.
• Experience managing platform risk, regulatory requirements, supplier relationships, budgets or investment cases.

Responsibilities

• Define and communicate a multi year Payments Platform vision, roadmap, service catalogue and scorecard.
• Own payment domain standards, including routing policy, payment data, payment events, reconciliation requirements and control evidence.
• Prioritise a platform backlog that balances member value, regulatory change, resilience, modernisation and technical debt.
• Lead payment risk, security and regulatory readiness across areas such as operational resilience, PCI, Confirmation of Payee, fraud controls and ISO 20022.
• Partner with product, engineering, operations, finance, risk, compliance and architecture teams to improve payment outcomes across the Society.
• Shape supplier strategy, investment cases and budgets, making platform cost, risk and value clear to senior stakeholders.
• Build the future Payments Platform team and champion modern engineering, observability and continuous improvement.

Skills

Platform ownership

Payments domain

Roadmap strategy

Stakeholder collaboration

Regulatory & security awareness

Leadership

Job description

Skipton Building Society is seeking a Senior Product Owner - Payments to own the Payments Platform, shaping vision, roadmap and performance across member, colleague and supplier journeys. The role is hybrid, with three days a week in the Skipton office and two days remote.

You'll collaborate across product, engineering, operations, finance, risk and architecture to improve payment outcomes, drive resilience, Open Banking, ISO 20022 and risk controls while balancing today’s needs with tomorrow’s