Product Owner Financial Markets

Levy NL; Amsterdam; On-site; EUR 90,000 - 120,000; Full time

Job summary

Levy Global is recruiting a Product Owner for Equity Listed Products within the Financial Markets domain. You will shape the technology behind structured products and listed derivatives, owning roadmaps for Fidessa, Ullink and Horizon landscapes. The role demands balancing regulatory needs with delivery and stakeholder alignment.

You will lead two squads in an IT delivery setting, collaborating with business and IT stakeholders to ensure end-to-end value and governance across changes.

Qualifications

• 7+ years of experience in Financial Markets with ownership of change delivery in complex environments.
• Domain knowledge of cash equities and equity-based structured products and front-to-back flow.
• Solid understanding of Financial Markets product flows, including execution and trade capture.

Responsibilities

• Own and prioritise the roadmap and backlog for two squads, balancing strategic change, regulatory demand and operational stability.
• Translate business needs into outcomes, requirements and acceptance criteria for delivery teams.
• Drive end-to-end improvements in execution and trade capture flow across systems and stakeholders.
• Manage vendor and stakeholder governance: change intake, release planning and prioritisation decisions.
• Safeguard operational stability by turning incidents and risks into preventative backlog items.
• Apply systems thinking and futureproofing to reduce key-person dependencies.
• Lead two squads of IT DevOps engineers and Customer Journey Experts, running Agile ceremonies and maintaining backlog quality.
• Align with neighbouring Product Owners to deliver end-to-end value.

Skills

Financial Markets

Cash equities

Agile / Scrum

Stakeholder management

IT Delivery / DevOps

English communication

Vendor management

Tools

Fidessa

Ullink

Horizon

Job description

Product Owner | Equity Listed Products | Financial Markets (Fidessa & Horizon)

Lead two squads at the heart of a leading international bank's Financial Markets division, shaping the technology behind Equity Structured Products and Listed Derivatives/Fixed Income. As Product Owner, you'll combine market and system knowledge, product management and business expertise to own the roadmap for the Fidessa, Ullink and Horizon application landscape.

You'll work with Trading, Sales, Risk, Operations, IT and Procurement to shape demand, make prioritisation trade-offs explicit and represent the voice of the business, balancing strategic change, regulatory demand and operational stability.

About the role

You'll be part of the change delivery organisation for Financial Markets, in an area where squads own the end-to-end delivery and evolution of the technology landscape. Led by a Product Manager, the area translates Financial Markets strategy into executable roadmaps through product-based delivery. As Product Owner, you will:

• Own and prioritise the roadmap and backlog for two squads, balancing strategic change, regulatory demand and operational stability
• Translate business needs into clear outcomes, requirements and acceptance criteria so the squads can deliver the right solutions
• Drive end-to-end improvements in the execution and trade capture flow across systems, squads and stakeholders
• Manage vendor and stakeholder governance: change intake, release planning, prioritisation decisions and communication
• Safeguard operational stability by turning incidents and risks into preventative backlog items, coordinating change with run/operations
• Apply systems thinking and futureproofing, prioritising sustainable solutions that reduce key-person dependencies
• Lead two squads of IT DevOps engineers and Customer Journey Experts, running key Agile ceremonies (refinement, sprint planning, reviews) and maintaining a high-quality backlog
• Align with neighbouring Product Owners to deliver end-to-end value

Who are you?

• 7+ years' experience in Financial Markets (and/or Treasury), with demonstrated ownership of change delivery in complex stakeholder environments
• Proven domain knowledge of cash equities and equity-based structured products and the associated front-to-back flow (from trading/execution through trade capture and downstream processing)
• Solid understanding of Financial Markets product flows, with depth in execution and trade capture, including key controls, risk points and operational handoffs
• Comfortable in an IT delivery context (DevOps teams), able to understand application capabilities and constraints and make clear trade-offs on scope, time and risk
• Proven experience owning prioritisation and making explicit trade-offs between competing demands
• Strong stakeholder management, communication and presentation skills in English, able to align senior business and IT stakeholders
• Experience in an Agile/Scrum setting

Nice to have: experience with vendor trading platforms and release/change processes (e.g. Fidessa, Horizon or similar); exposure to other asset classes (leveraged derivatives, listed commodities and/or fixed income) in a front-to-back context; experience in regulated environments with audit-ready decision-making; and strong ownership of delivery across roadmap, backlog quality and outcomes.

You have a talent for taking it on and making it happen, enjoy helping others succeed, and always stay a step ahead. You're naturally collaborative, love to challenge the status quo and bring fresh ideas to life in a fast-changing, complex environment.

About Levy Global

Levy Global is a specialist consulting and recruitment partner supporting technology professionals across the UK, Europe and North America. Since 2000, we have helped people build careers across data and AI, cloud, cybersecurity, infrastructure, enterprise systems, software development and business change.

We work with scale‑ups and global organisations, connecting talented people with projects and roles where they can make an impact. Our strength has always been the way we support people, from first conversation through to placement, onboarding and beyond.