Product Owner – Payment Services Platform, Edinburgh

Edinburgh, Midlothian
LLoyds Banking Group

JOB TITLE: Product Owner

SALARY: £56,421 – £65,824

LOCATION: Edinburgh

HOURS: Full Time

WORKING PATTERN: Our work style is hybrid, which involves spending at least two days per week, or 40% of our time, at one of our office sites.

Are you that someone that’s interested in working with exciting, innovative new technologies such as Cloud, and Software as a Service (SaaS), with strong Leadership and Communication capability?

About this Opportunity

We’re looking to recruit a Team Product Owner (PO) to work in our New Payments Architecture (NPA) Lab, delivering the biggest change that Payments has seen this decade. Our NPA Lab sits in our Payment Services Platform (PSP), where our mission is to provide compliant and efficient payments capabilities for the Group and drive innovation to enable customers to move money confidently, quickly and securely.

New Payments Architecture (NPA) is a multi-million pound regulatory initiative that will change UK payments as we know them. Working closely with Industry, the NPA team is replacing the complexity of the existing payments landscape with a new, more efficient infrastructure that will benefit from enhanced security and resilience and vastly improve the ongoing Customer Journey.

In joining us you’ll focus on the following:

• Inspiring the team with energy and passion.
• Think ‘big’ but value incremental improvements.
• Influence by building trust and empowering the team with responsibility.
• Being data-driven, bringing evidence-based decision-making to explain ‘why’.
• Using your experience working with technical and cross-functional teams to deliver change.

What You’ll need

• Product Owner experience ideally within a technology change environment, applying agile methodologies to optimise innovation development and delivery able to craft a product vision and define work to be done.
• Passionate and inspiring leadership skills, empowering teams to tackle business problems and create customer value through delivering excellent solutions in response to customer needs.
• Ability to think ‘big’ but value incremental improvements with a data driven mindset
• Ability to influence alignment up and down the organisation and explain prioritisation decisions. Furthermore trusting and empowering the team with responsibility.
• Proactively drive the end-to-end delivery of initiatives through experiment cycles and facilitate the identification and management of new opportunities, ensuring projects are delivered safely and ethically, using help from our governance processes.
• Demonstration of competitor and opportunity awareness within the banking industry.

And the following would be really useful

• Working with Software Engineers and cross-functional teams to deliver technology change
• Cloud Migrations (Private / Public/ Hybrid) and SaaS projects
• Payment Services / processes within a financial Services environment.
• Encouraging collaborative, empowered teams, nurturing them to take ownership of the relevant outcomes.

Why Lloyds Banking Group?

We’re on an exciting journey and there couldn’t be a better time to join us. The investments we’re making in our people, data, and technology are leading to innovative projects, fresh possibilities, and countless new ways for our people to work, learn, and thrive.

About working for us

Our focus is to ensure we’re inclusive every day, building an organisation that reflects modern society and celebrates diversity in all its forms

We want our people to feel that they belong and can be their best, regardless of background, identity or culture.

We were one of the first major organisations to set goals on diversity in senior roles, create a menopause health package, and a dedicated Working with Cancer initiative.

And it’s why we especially welcome applications from under-represented groups.

We’re disability confident. So if you’d like reasonable adjustments to be made to our recruitment processes, just let us know.

We also offer a wide-ranging benefits package, which includes:

• Any generous pension contribution of up to 15%
• An annual bonus award, subject to Group performance
• Share schemes including free shares
• Benefits you can adapt to your lifestyle, such as discounted shopping
• 30 days’ holiday, with bank holidays on top
• A range of wellbeing initiatives and generous parental leave policies

Ready for a career where you can have a positive impact as you learn, grow and thrive? Apply today and find out more.